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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Shinagami, it's not that you're not welcome, it's that you don't get along with this particular group of people. This may be because of your particular experience in life. Maybe you communicate differently with people and got the wrong impressions here.
Give it another try, if you like, but be advised, this forum might seem a bit mild to you if you're the aggressive type of thinker - regardless of your level of intelligence.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 7:19 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 5:10 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: (August 4, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Come now. Of course you're welcome. That one situation doesn't mean we don't ever want to talk to you again.
Found the thread. That's mild in comparison to what I've seen in my short time here. All our welcome, that's what I like most about this place. My very worldview is contradictory to the title of the site, and have disagreed with many on here but I have never felt unwelcome.
You are quite welcome as far as I'm concerned. This is a forum where debates are heated. The mistake is to take disagreement as dislike. You appear to understand the difference.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 9:33 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 7:15 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Shinagami, it's not that you're not welcome, it's that you don't get along with this particular group of people. This may be because of your particular experience in life.
Yes.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 10:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2015 at 10:11 pm by Redbeard The Pink.)
(July 29, 2015 at 11:18 pm)Shinagami Wrote: (July 29, 2015 at 10:08 pm)KUSA Wrote: Any particular reason why?
I guess I'm curious if "atheist spirituality" is a thing. Not all religions have a god. I was thrown for a loop when I read that Sam Harris practiced some form of zen meditation.  I thought "isn't that Buddhism or something"?
Zen is a system that uses meditation, focus, and thought exercises to learn/integrate a practice or concept into one's brain. Zen Buddhism uses the system of Zen to teach and learn Buddhism, but Zen principles have between integrated into various fields of study and practice (not just of religion).
Basically, Zen is more intellectual than spiritual. It's an approach to making the brain absorb and understand information.
Also, welcome 
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 10:37 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 5:16 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah well, it costs the same amount of money going in or going out, so... yeah.
What thread? Someone dared to disagree? Oh the horror.
We should fucking kill people who disagree!
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 4, 2015 at 10:49 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 10:37 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: (August 4, 2015 at 5:16 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah well, it costs the same amount of money going in or going out, so... yeah.
What thread? Someone dared to disagree? Oh the horror.
We should fucking kill people who disagree!
Oh I disagree with that...
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 6, 2015 at 8:52 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 5:16 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah well, it costs the same amount of money going in or going out, so... yeah.
What thread? Someone dared to disagree? Oh the horror.
No, they disagreed with me. They took issue with my statements on Jews and vaguely implied that I was a Nazi.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 6, 2015 at 9:02 pm
Shin people will call things as they see them and some do it with more respect then others but you cannot control what they say and do. You can however control your reaction to it.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 6, 2015 at 9:15 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 10:37 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: (August 4, 2015 at 5:16 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah well, it costs the same amount of money going in or going out, so... yeah.
What thread? Someone dared to disagree? Oh the horror.
We should fucking kill people who disagree!
You're wrong, wrong, I tell you.
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RE: So I guess I'm an Atheist?
August 6, 2015 at 9:17 pm
(August 6, 2015 at 8:52 pm)Shinagami Wrote: (August 4, 2015 at 5:16 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah well, it costs the same amount of money going in or going out, so... yeah.
What thread? Someone dared to disagree? Oh the horror.
No, they disagreed with me. They took issue with my statements on Jews and vaguely implied that I was a Nazi.
Believe me, when I first started posting here I caught a lot of flak too -- some deserved, some unearnt. Disagreements on a forum where the rules lean to free speech rather than courtesy can get heated. remember, "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind,"
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