I've recently joined a few Atheist sites for the amusement of debate, not trolling, just the friendly banter of divergent ideas as you'd have in a pub.
FACEBOOK, is not the place to have intelligent discussion, (I know, what was I thinking.) Merely criticizing that atheism is turning into a religion brought such wrath I was afraid that it was going to rain frogs. Some of the atheists are so dogmatic that questions are evil that they may as well strap a bomb to themselves and blow themselves up in a deserted corn field. Would some of the corn pop? And would it prove something? Using the word 'agnostic' was like burning a koran and using urine to put it out. Not exactly the enlightened folk I saught
This is the first message board that I actually read the ToS before joining. Which says something about the dicks that you can find on your own team in other places.
I ask questions. I don't expect answers. I believe in the power of science to educate, but recognize that science evolves and canon or gaps today may change tomorrow. I believe that science can verify and falsify but some questions of a metaphysical nature are unanswerable and only a complete dickhead would argue to the contrary.
But it's that inquiry that moves us out of darkness. "See the light" is a phrase used by the religious and non-religious. You wanna see the light? open your mind!!!
Great ideas can be built on the ruins of bad ones and vice versa. Even the God concept has intriguing questions as we study the brain and it's temperal lobes, does the brain manufacture god?
I'll stick my neck out on one thing. RELIGION is EVIL. From westboro baptist to Zen buddhism, religion is going to do harm regardless of it's adherents intentions. Though, some less than others.
OH, and if you are a vegetarian or a seventh level vegan that doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow, just put me on your ignore list right now. Seriously, I don't know how diet would be a subject here, but if you are vegan, or more accurately a self-righteous vegan, we are not going to get along.
Though in the spirit of friendly debate, I am more than willing to have a civilized discussion of the erroneous presumptions of vegans, and I'll accept education of my misconceptions. But if you have a scientific outlook and are vegan, err...I don't stop at drilling holes in that argument. I pack them with high explosives, collapse it and then sift the detritus for small little gems that I can turn to dust.
But other than that I'm a pleasant, happy and openminded person. Glad to be here.
FACEBOOK, is not the place to have intelligent discussion, (I know, what was I thinking.) Merely criticizing that atheism is turning into a religion brought such wrath I was afraid that it was going to rain frogs. Some of the atheists are so dogmatic that questions are evil that they may as well strap a bomb to themselves and blow themselves up in a deserted corn field. Would some of the corn pop? And would it prove something? Using the word 'agnostic' was like burning a koran and using urine to put it out. Not exactly the enlightened folk I saught
This is the first message board that I actually read the ToS before joining. Which says something about the dicks that you can find on your own team in other places.
I ask questions. I don't expect answers. I believe in the power of science to educate, but recognize that science evolves and canon or gaps today may change tomorrow. I believe that science can verify and falsify but some questions of a metaphysical nature are unanswerable and only a complete dickhead would argue to the contrary.
But it's that inquiry that moves us out of darkness. "See the light" is a phrase used by the religious and non-religious. You wanna see the light? open your mind!!!
Great ideas can be built on the ruins of bad ones and vice versa. Even the God concept has intriguing questions as we study the brain and it's temperal lobes, does the brain manufacture god?
I'll stick my neck out on one thing. RELIGION is EVIL. From westboro baptist to Zen buddhism, religion is going to do harm regardless of it's adherents intentions. Though, some less than others.
OH, and if you are a vegetarian or a seventh level vegan that doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow, just put me on your ignore list right now. Seriously, I don't know how diet would be a subject here, but if you are vegan, or more accurately a self-righteous vegan, we are not going to get along.
Though in the spirit of friendly debate, I am more than willing to have a civilized discussion of the erroneous presumptions of vegans, and I'll accept education of my misconceptions. But if you have a scientific outlook and are vegan, err...I don't stop at drilling holes in that argument. I pack them with high explosives, collapse it and then sift the detritus for small little gems that I can turn to dust.
But other than that I'm a pleasant, happy and openminded person. Glad to be here.
