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#51
RE: How atheist are you
November 19, 2013 at 10:10 pm
If I had to place myself on the Dawkins Scale, I reckon I'd weigh in at around 6.9 recurring. That's because, as others have already said, claiming absolute knowledge in either direction would be foolish; whatever you may think you know, there's always going to be that margin for error.

But the scale is only calibrated for gnosticism/agnosticism, not theism/atheism. In terms of my beliefs about gods and associated detritus, to invoke Laplace "I have no need of that hypothesis".
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#52
RE: How atheist are you
November 23, 2013 at 6:01 am
I'm a 7. I don't fuck about.
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#53
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 8:28 am
6 seems like a good number in the scale. I'll stick with that.
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#54
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 9:58 am
Do these numbers represent flaccid length or erect length?
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#55
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 10:07 am
I'm so atheist I'm going to crack this walnut right now!

Don't ask, I don't know what the connection is either....
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#56
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 10:19 am
(November 15, 2013 at 9:27 am)Zazzy Wrote: I think this scale is BS. I just don't have any reasons to believe, and that's all. It's totally ridiculous for anyone to claim they know anything- all humans are agnostic whether they admit it or not. Nobody knows. I get tired of theists and atheists who claim to know something that is unknowable. So fuck Dawkins and his stupid scale.

Wow. Touch a nerve there? Angel

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As a prophet I know for a fact (as much as anything can be known) that god does not have identity.
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#57
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 12:37 pm (This post was last modified: December 1, 2013 at 1:55 pm by Marvin.)
I'd be OK with the concept if I got to be god.
I did the rounds of local Churches but none of them recognised my divinity.
It's not as if I want to be god all the time, I'm OK taking turns.
I don't know why I couldn't be god on Tuesdays 9-11pm, that's not unreasonable is it?
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#58
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 1:46 pm
If I had to place myself on his scale, I'd probably be a 5, maybe 5.5?

But I don't have to, because just the sentence, "How atheist are you?" in itself makes me cringe.
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#59
RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 3:35 pm
6.99. I am open to the idea of a deistic God, though I have no belief in it.
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RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 10:00 pm (This post was last modified: December 1, 2013 at 10:00 pm by Angrboda.)
(November 15, 2013 at 10:06 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I think if you're talking with a theist the Dawkins scale can be helpful in gauging the degree to which your worldviews differ. If the Atheist is a 7 and the Theist is a 1, the conversation isn't going to go anywhere....

Not at all true. I'm a 1 who gets along fine with 7s.


Which gets back to the main flaw with the scale, it is primarily a scale of Western religion related to Judeo-Christian-Muslim monotheism. I'm a Hindu (mono) theist, yet don't really belong on this scale. Nor do Buddhists. Or Shinto. Or all the varieties of Taoist. Or....
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