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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 2:42 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: (March 2, 2014 at 2:40 pm)StatCrux Wrote: I want to establish something we can agree that atheists believe.
I got one
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March 2, 2014 at 2:48 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: So, to be clear.
These here atheists THINK their lives have meaning... but that they are wrong.
Because this guy who wrote the book, and you, think ... |
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March 2, 2014 at 2:44 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 2:33 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Okay, listen to me, very closely. Are you paying attention? 'Cause here goes:
Why is the meaning we have logically inconsistent with atheism? In what way ... |
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March 2, 2014 at 2:40 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 2:24 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (March 2, 2014 at 1:50 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Yep, you're definitely not getting the point. I don't need to provide evidence...
So, let me get this strai... |
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March 2, 2014 at 2:33 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 2:09 pm)max-greece Wrote: Why would it be an admission?
Why do you assume it is the only position an atheist might hold?
Why do you think "a point" is the be all and end all?
Afte... |
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March 2, 2014 at 2:26 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: Actually, without explicit reference, I proposed the argument of parsimony (using Occam's razor) which largely contends that since natural theories ade... |
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March 2, 2014 at 2:14 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 1:35 pm)Esquilax Wrote: And you're still begging the question, because the only way you could phrase my lack of objective meaning as a bad thing is if you can A: present me with ev... |
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March 2, 2014 at 1:50 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 1:30 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: (March 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Ah, is this where you get to tell me what I believe? Sky daddy, cannibalism and all other such intellectual... |
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March 2, 2014 at 1:42 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 1:14 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Individually and socially determined meaning is still meaning, it's not invalid because some other people decided to label theirs extra special and omniscie... |
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March 2, 2014 at 1:23 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: When Christians all start admitting that they are focusing their one existence on worshipping a figment of their primeval fear.
A guy in the sky who ... |
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March 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: RE: An atheists guide to reality
| (March 2, 2014 at 12:58 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: His views on supervenience are rather flawed.
He has considerations that social hierarchy is predicated upon the simplest forms of natural existence... |
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March 2, 2014 at 1:06 pm |
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Thread: An atheists guide to reality
Post: An atheists guide to reality
| Alex Rosenberg, (in his book "An atheists guide to reality") at last an honest atheist who admits that ultimately atheism when taken to its logical conclusion leads to lack in intentionality, lack of ... |
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March 2, 2014 at 12:46 pm |
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Thread: Atheism is "finally dying out"
Post: RE: Atheism is "finally dying out"
| The "new atheist" thing was very much like watching the hippie movement of the sixties, lot's of nonsense talked by a few individual characters followed and admired by credulous college kids and fring... |
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April 13, 2013 at 4:10 pm |
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Thread: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
Post: RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'pe...
| (April 13, 2013 at 12:11 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (February 6, 2013 at 11:48 am)TaraJo Wrote: Then the question becomes 'why do we treat other animals so differently from how we treat people?'
Becaus... |
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April 13, 2013 at 12:28 pm |
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Thread: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
Post: RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'pe...
| (April 13, 2013 at 11:23 am)Esquilax Wrote: I'm an atheist. Always have been. To me, the gods of every extant religion have not met their burden of proof and thus, functionally, don't exist. Since I... |
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April 13, 2013 at 12:00 pm |
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Thread: 'Rate the above person's music'
Post: RE: 'Rate the above person's music'
| 8/10 Nice cover, but loses points to Joni Mitchell
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April 13, 2013 at 11:38 am |
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Thread: In the beginning...
Post: RE: In the beginning...
| (April 9, 2013 at 9:20 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: God created (blank) from...
What material?
...and using what level of approximate power? (limited or omnipotent)
Don't wanna make assumptions, I'll ... |
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April 13, 2013 at 11:12 am |
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Thread: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
Post: RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'pe...
| (April 13, 2013 at 10:24 am)Esquilax Wrote: One might argue that our ability to reason- and fantasize, in the case of religious belief- arises from our animal instincts and behaviors, and are in fac... |
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April 13, 2013 at 10:38 am |
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Thread: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
Post: RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'pe...
| (April 13, 2013 at 9:55 am)Esquilax Wrote: (April 13, 2013 at 8:53 am)StatCrux Wrote: The thing that makes humans human is the fact that we are God seeking, we have an intrinsic desire to return t... |
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April 13, 2013 at 10:13 am |
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Thread: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
Post: RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'pe...
| The thing that makes humans human is the fact that we are God seeking, we have an intrinsic desire to return to our source, this awareness differentiates us from animals, when we deny it we basically ... |
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