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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 9, 2019 at 10:16 pm)Succubus Wrote: Friendly atheism sounds to me like the Templeton prize, which is awarded to various rubber wristed atheist wankers who have something positive to say a... |
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September 9, 2019 at 10:41 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 8, 2019 at 6:42 pm)Belaqua Wrote: (September 8, 2019 at 2:59 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: Well, it pertains to whether theism could be rational I'd say, so not yet.
I responded to a couple of poin... |
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September 9, 2019 at 7:22 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 8, 2019 at 6:13 am)Belaqua Wrote: (September 8, 2019 at 5:50 am)mcc1789 Wrote: A common definition for "eternal" is in fact "lasting forever". That is semantics though I realize.
I've... |
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September 8, 2019 at 2:59 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 8, 2019 at 3:44 am)Belaqua Wrote: (September 8, 2019 at 2:39 am)mcc1789 Wrote: I'm also still unclear on where the line is between classical theism and pantheism (or perhaps there's non... |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 7, 2019 at 5:18 pm)Objectivist Wrote: mcc1789
"I think what you say makes sense. This does align with what I've thought, that if God is the basis of everything there is no objective real... |
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September 8, 2019 at 2:39 am |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 7, 2019 at 12:43 am)Belaqua Wrote: (September 6, 2019 at 7:23 pm)Objectivist Wrote: The part in italics is the part that is implicitly in any statement about reality. Understood!
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September 7, 2019 at 4:06 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 6, 2019 at 1:56 am)Objectivist Wrote: (September 5, 2019 at 6:47 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: Can you explain why? I'm not very familiar with Objectivism. Others here likely aren't either.Hi,
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September 6, 2019 at 7:20 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (September 5, 2019 at 3:15 pm)Objectivist Wrote: (August 30, 2019 at 7:54 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: William Rowe, the late atheist philosopher, coined the term "friendly atheism". By this he meant an athe... |
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September 5, 2019 at 6:47 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (August 31, 2019 at 5:23 am)Belaqua Wrote: (August 30, 2019 at 7:54 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: Do you agree or disagree that theism is ever rational?
If we're allowed to think of this in relation to other ... |
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August 31, 2019 at 12:56 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (August 31, 2019 at 12:54 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: (August 30, 2019 at 11:08 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Hmm would you say then that rationality is not transferable? That if a belief is rational for... |
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August 31, 2019 at 1:49 am |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| (August 30, 2019 at 11:02 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I think that theism is rational insofar as one has himself had a direct experience of "something divine." Whatever that is zen, Krishna, Buddhahood... |
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August 30, 2019 at 11:22 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: RE: Friendly Atheism
| I think what Rowe meant here was that, from their perspective, some theists could be not obviously wrong for belief in God. That is, he thought they were wrong of course, but it wasn't self-evident. |
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August 30, 2019 at 10:24 pm |
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Thread: Friendly Atheism
Post: Friendly Atheism
| William Rowe, the late atheist philosopher, coined the term "friendly atheism". By this he meant an atheist view which holds theism can be rational in some cases. Do you agree or disagree that theism ... |
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August 30, 2019 at 7:54 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (August 20, 2019 at 11:15 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (August 20, 2019 at 9:53 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: I found them in the article here: https://www.iep.utm.edu/foreknow/ You might find that interesting regardl... |
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August 20, 2019 at 11:41 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (August 20, 2019 at 8:16 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: (August 20, 2019 at 7:14 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: This post addressed Christians who view God as outside time in the sense that past, present and future... |
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August 20, 2019 at 9:53 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (August 20, 2019 at 10:43 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I think the incoherence depends on one's definition of time, as well as the relationship between said God and the qualities of time. Since I'm not... |
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August 20, 2019 at 7:14 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (July 19, 2019 at 1:46 am)Belaqua Wrote: (July 18, 2019 at 7:29 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: I haven't had many in person interactions with Christians on theology, so no probably not. So what? I haven't clai... |
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July 19, 2019 at 5:11 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (July 18, 2019 at 2:46 pm)tackattack Wrote: (July 17, 2019 at 8:49 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
Not true. You have hardwiring that lumps all your perceptions of self into one ... |
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July 18, 2019 at 7:29 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (July 17, 2019 at 10:53 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: (July 17, 2019 at 9:53 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: Okay, so are you suggesting everything would be co-eternal with God? Because otherwise I don't know how this cha... |
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July 17, 2019 at 11:10 pm |
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Thread: A timeless being cannot create
Post: RE: A timeless being cannot create
| (July 17, 2019 at 9:53 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: A god who exists in some other dimension sounds alot like a god that doesn’t exist in this dimension.
I think this leads us to another incompatibility, of ... |
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