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    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
Sort of, more like degrees of certainty about beliefs. Where the value of said degrees of certainty is unknown, but between 0-1.
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 4, 2015 at 12:10 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
I get what you're saying, I am just uncertain as to whether or not there is a third option, or an Nth option, as I am unaware of how many possibilities there can be, in a kind of fuzzy logic way, but...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 3, 2015 at 11:57 pm
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
I'm sorry Pyrrho, but I disagree that we can absolutely know that any statement is either true or false. Whilst that may seem potentially nonsensical, I do not necessarily know whether or not any axio...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 3, 2015 at 11:26 pm
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (October 2, 2015 at 11:17 pm)Psychonaut Wrote: Are you saying that a person can be uncertain consciously, and certain subc...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 3, 2015 at 12:52 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 12:38 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (October 2, 2015 at 4:35 am)Psychonaut Wrote: I've heard quite commonly, that if you're not a theist, you're an atheist, and vice versa. That is really ...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 11:17 pm
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 7:37 am)robvalue Wrote: I see :) Well, the thing about personal experience is that it's unreliable. So we may feel certain that we have experienced something, but that doesn't m...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 8:35 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 5:53 am)robvalue Wrote: Back to knowing: I'm not quite sure what you mean here. I was saying we can each individually claim to "know" things, about ourselves or the world around ...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 7:35 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 5:28 am)robvalue Wrote: Further thoughts: Saying you're not sure if you're an atheist or a theist is a perfectly acceptable answer. That's not the same as actually refusing to a...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 5:39 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
(October 2, 2015 at 4:47 am)robvalue Wrote: ... To say otherwise is to say I don't know what my own beliefs, or lack of beliefs, are..... ...But if "know" means "100% certainty" then such a thing d...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 5:12 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
Thanks Rob, for the well thought out reply, as always. I'm curious though, isn't convincing usually contingent on certainty? Whereas belief is not?
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 4:55 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false...
lol, I mean, I've identified as an atheist for some time, and everyone is cool with it. I just don't feel like that describes fully what's going on inside my head, because I just don't know, nor do I ...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 4:51 am
    Thread: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
Post: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dic...
I've heard quite commonly, that if you're not a theist, you're an atheist, and vice versa. I've also been told there is no in between, as you either believe something, or you don't, but is that necess...
 Psychonaut Atheism 69 14461 October 2, 2015 at 4:35 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
(September 23, 2015 at 11:45 am)Iroscato Wrote: (September 23, 2015 at 11:30 am)Psychonaut Wrote: Perhaps my statement was premature. I perceived Irascato as stating that people are twisted if the...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 23, 2015 at 8:47 pm
    Thread: Superfluid vacuum theory
Post: Superfluid vacuum theory
I'm a chemist in training, who finds superfluids fascinating. I was wondering if any of the theoretical physicists could tell me what the deal is with the Superfluid vacuum theory. Is it being serious...
 Psychonaut Physical Sciences 0 1205 September 23, 2015 at 11:47 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Perhaps my statement was premature. I perceived Irascato as stating that people are twisted if they find something funny, and that's a fact. You see, when people don't clarify on whether or not they'r...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 23, 2015 at 11:30 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
(September 20, 2015 at 7:23 am)Neimenovic Wrote: (September 20, 2015 at 12:47 am)Psychonaut Wrote: Not at all, I would assume that the moral objectivist superiority starts when you think your opin...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 22, 2015 at 4:48 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Furthermore, Wyrd of Gawd has a point, if one truly believes in martyrdom, the "shahid", and they believe in the sunnah, then it's likely that they would be glad their friends passed on that day. Hav...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 20, 2015 at 12:53 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
(September 19, 2015 at 1:49 pm)abaris Wrote: (September 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm)Psychonaut Wrote: lol, I'm getting more of a kick out of watching you squirm due to your own sense of moral objectivist ...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 20, 2015 at 12:47 am
    Thread: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
Post: RE: Allah can't even protect Mecca properly...
(September 17, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: (September 17, 2015 at 7:44 pm)Iroscato Wrote: You're a sad man, Wyrd. It seems that you hate it when people hit the cosmic jackpot and get expre...
 Psychonaut Islam 61 11849 September 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm
    Thread: Roko's basilisk
Post: RE: Roko's basilisk
Haha, those guys at less wrong are quite the characters. I think the basilisk's problem is that the command can be reversed, and still be possibly true , for example, that there is a possibility of a...
 Psychonaut Religion 5 1178 September 15, 2015 at 10:59 am