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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 1, 2018 at 2:51 pm
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So, for clarity, you're recognizing that your god concept is gibberish, and hoping that by describing some other thing as gibberish this will somehow rescue what you consider to be gibberish?
Has it occurred to you that this, too, might be gibberish?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 1, 2018 at 2:51 pm
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 1, 2018 at 3:10 pm
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 1, 2018 at 3:31 pm
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 1, 2018 at 3:38 pm
That's like The 'Joke' from the otherwise almost offensively atrocious Carry On Columbus, regarding sharks:
"Will they eat me whole?"
"No, I'm told they spit that bit out."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 3, 2018 at 1:32 am
The word atheist does seem to have a negative stigma surrounding it, which is probably due to people not understanding what it means. I don't think rebranding is necessarily a bad idea. Though we might just end up in the same predicament.
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 3, 2018 at 6:50 am
(February 3, 2018 at 1:32 am)iameatingjam Wrote: The word atheist does seem to have a negative stigma surrounding it, which is probably due to people not understanding what it means. I don't think rebranding is necessarily a bad idea. Though we might just end up in the same predicament.
Even thinking rebranding might be a good idea is, IMNSHO, allowing the other side to control the conversation.
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 3, 2018 at 8:58 am
(February 3, 2018 at 1:32 am)iameatingjam Wrote: The word atheist does seem to have a negative stigma surrounding it, which is probably due to people not understanding what it means. I don't think rebranding is necessarily a bad idea. Though we might just end up in the same predicament.
Whichever way you put it it will not make any difference.
None of whatsoever.
Atheism is based on guessing and guessing alone.
There is no evidence in all statements that atheists bring forward.
From the idea that God doesn't exist to the idea that the universe doesn't need a creator and an operator to the idea that the consciousness is a product of the brain to the idea that once the body die also the consciousness die.
All 100% guessing that by the way also goes against the physical science that atheists love to rely to so much.
To put it in few words........A TOTAL DISASTER FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END. 
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 3, 2018 at 11:35 am
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(February 3, 2018 at 8:58 am)Little Rik Wrote: Whichever way you put it it will not make any difference.
None of whatsoever.
Atheism is based on guessing and guessing alone.
There is no evidence in all statements that atheists bring forward.
You're right but that is hardly our fault. We answer "no" to the "do you believe in God" question, even though "God" is never defined. So when I say the whole idea seems absurd on the face of it, that's really all I have. Don't have a clue what this God thing is you guys seem so excited about. But while we're waiting for that term to make sense I'm just going to leave it in the "makes no sense" basket, and no, I definitely don't believe in shit that makes no sense.
(February 3, 2018 at 8:58 am)Little Rik Wrote: From the idea that God doesn't exist to the idea that the universe doesn't need a creator and an operator to the idea that the consciousness is a product of the brain to the idea that once the body die also the consciousness die.
All 100% guessing that by the way also goes against the physical science that atheists love to rely to so much.
To put it in few words........A TOTAL DISASTER FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END.
Everything needs a creator? Who creates the creators? Is it creators all the way down then? Guess you never thought about that, did you mate?
Oh my, and you even know what happens to your consciousness when you die. Definitely ahead of me there, mate. From all appearances death is the end of consciousness, leastwise no dead person has ever given me reason to think otherwise. I'll just go on naively assuming consciousness goes off the air when the brain gets unplugged because I'm not impressed with the fruits of intuitional science.
I wonder why people who disagree with you seem to you to be a total disaster? I don't think you're a disaster, just a garden variety nut job.
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RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
February 4, 2018 at 3:20 am
(February 3, 2018 at 6:50 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (February 3, 2018 at 1:32 am)iameatingjam Wrote: The word atheist does seem to have a negative stigma surrounding it, which is probably due to people not understanding what it means. I don't think rebranding is necessarily a bad idea. Though we might just end up in the same predicament.
Even thinking rebranding might be a good idea is, IMNSHO, allowing the other side to control the conversation.
Yeah, well they can kinda do that since they are the majority. We can give them all the facts and evidence and it wont mean a fucking thing because they don't think like us. Maybe a new word, without that stigma would cause some people to have a second thought about their faith.
Maybe. I don't know, I'm not married to the idea.
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