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    Thread: Is being an atheist important to you?
Post: RE: Is being an atheist important to you?

(February 2, 2019 at 4:50 pm)Acrobat Wrote: (February 2, 2019 at 4:20 pm)unfogged Wrote: We don't live in a world where "fairyists" tell us that we can't be moral without believing in fairies and ...
unfogged Atheism 63 6659 February 4, 2019 at 6:36 pm
    Thread: Is being an atheist important to you?
Post: RE: Is being an atheist important to you?

(February 2, 2019 at 12:49 pm)Acrobat Wrote: (February 2, 2019 at 12:33 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I don't think faries exist either, is that also an important part of my life. To me they are equival...
unfogged Atheism 63 6659 February 2, 2019 at 4:20 pm
    Thread: Is being an atheist important to you?
Post: RE: Is being an atheist important to you?

Skepticism is important to me; I want to have actual evidence and sound reasons for things I believe rather than simply accepting claims because they may be comforting. Atheism is simply a result of ...
unfogged Atheism 63 6659 February 2, 2019 at 9:12 am
    Thread: If it wasn't for religion
Post: RE: If it wasn't for religion

(January 28, 2019 at 4:58 pm)Acrobat Wrote: You asked for a moral aim or goal. No, that is utterly dishonest. You said there was "a reality that posses moral purpose and aims" and I asked for a mor...
unfogged Atheism 162 14095 January 28, 2019 at 5:53 pm
    Thread: If it wasn't for religion
Post: RE: If it wasn't for religion

(January 28, 2019 at 3:47 pm)Acrobat Wrote: (January 28, 2019 at 3:31 pm)unfogged Wrote: Please provide an example of a moral purpose or aim that is provided to us by a reality. One ought to be go...
unfogged Atheism 162 14095 January 28, 2019 at 4:41 pm
    Thread: Excell high school fake or not fake
Post: RE: Excell high school fake or not fake

(January 28, 2019 at 3:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Gosh, if only there were some way you could find this out on your own.  I dunno, maybe some sort of electronic device connected to a world-wide ...
unfogged Off Topic 13 1520 January 28, 2019 at 3:50 pm
    Thread: joke time
Post: RE: joke time

6 malaprops ...looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in sheep's clothing, muttering epithets and casting aspersions on his significant other, who takes him for gra...
unfogged Humor 6785 562071 January 28, 2019 at 3:48 pm
    Thread: If it wasn't for religion
Post: RE: If it wasn't for religion

(January 28, 2019 at 12:56 pm)Acrobat Wrote: (January 28, 2019 at 11:40 am)unfogged Wrote: No, it doesn't say "all is permissible".  It doesn't say anything at all.   Exactly, in a reality that sa...
unfogged Atheism 162 14095 January 28, 2019 at 3:31 pm
    Thread: If it wasn't for religion
Post: RE: If it wasn't for religion

(January 26, 2019 at 11:34 am)Acrobat Wrote: (January 26, 2019 at 9:17 am)unfogged Wrote: Atheists can have conviction in something greater than themselves -- reality; this is far more inspiring a...
unfogged Atheism 162 14095 January 28, 2019 at 11:40 am
    Thread: Thoughts and not prayers.
Post: RE: Thoughts and not prayers.

(January 27, 2019 at 8:23 am)tackattack Wrote: Praying for someone isn’t about convincing a puppet master to pull some strings or make a c note magically appear in your wallet. In my experience that...
unfogged Off Topic 52 5140 January 27, 2019 at 5:11 pm
    Thread: If it wasn't for religion
Post: RE: If it wasn't for religion

(January 25, 2019 at 6:36 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Nah, you need a sort of convinction in something far greater than you, to something eternal and profound, or else how could we make mountains move? No at...
unfogged Atheism 162 14095 January 26, 2019 at 9:17 am
    Thread: Is atheism a belief?
Post: RE: Is atheism a belief?

(January 24, 2019 at 5:15 pm)Acrobat Wrote: In fact it’s seem that traditional agnostics who out number atheists prefer the old defintion, Citation required Quote:not the new one atheists such as y...
unfogged Atheism 1023 76981 January 24, 2019 at 5:55 pm
    Thread: Is atheism a belief?
Post: RE: Is atheism a belief?

(January 24, 2019 at 2:14 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Most people here would classify as agnostic under the traditional labels, but they seem to want to wear those red A lapels so bad, that they're eager to d...
unfogged Atheism 1023 76981 January 24, 2019 at 4:36 pm
    Thread: Refugee thread!
Post: RE: Refugee thread!

(January 15, 2019 at 12:08 pm)Yonadav Wrote: Clearly. Here, this will help sooth the butthurt. [Image: https://www.preparationh.com/sites/defau...s_main.png]
unfogged Introductions 942 65660 January 15, 2019 at 12:41 pm
    Thread: Refugee thread!
Post: RE: Refugee thread!

(January 14, 2019 at 8:46 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: In most people's opinions, Seth never provided an adequate explanation for his decision, though we asked him to. That was the thing.  It was his forum...
unfogged Introductions 942 65660 January 14, 2019 at 9:08 pm
    Thread: Abiogenesis in the proximity of hydrothermal vents?
Post: RE: Abiogenesis in the proximity of hydrothermal v...

(January 11, 2019 at 8:06 am)Editz Wrote: (January 10, 2019 at 8:18 pm)unfogged Wrote: The TTA forum did not collapse; the owner made a decision to drop it despite it being quite active. Perhaps p...
unfogged Life Sciences 120 6282 January 11, 2019 at 8:22 am
    Thread: Abiogenesis in the proximity of hydrothermal vents?
Post: RE: Abiogenesis in the proximity of hydrothermal v...

(January 10, 2019 at 8:09 pm)Editz Wrote: Basically I am opposed to the rep feature, IMO it's a primary reason The Thinking Atheist forum collapsed and fuck popularity as a gage. Was Copernicus popu...
unfogged Life Sciences 120 6282 January 10, 2019 at 8:18 pm
    Thread: Christian trigger words
Post: RE: Christian trigger words

(January 10, 2019 at 10:18 am)tackattack Wrote: If knowledge is the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association or  the circumstance or condition...
unfogged Christianity 173 20240 January 10, 2019 at 4:13 pm
    Thread: Christian trigger words
Post: RE: Christian trigger words

(January 9, 2019 at 11:09 pm)tackattack Wrote: As we are reasoning beings, Very little of what we actually chose to do is without reason. You may not like my reasons or have another standard, but I ...
unfogged Christianity 173 20240 January 10, 2019 at 7:48 am
    Thread: Christian trigger words
Post: RE: Christian trigger words

(January 9, 2019 at 7:31 pm)tackattack Wrote: Faith doesn’t require falsification, but doesn’t preclude it either. faith and reason are not mutually exclusive as you imply If you have reason, based ...
unfogged Christianity 173 20240 January 9, 2019 at 8:16 pm