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what would you identify as?
#31
RE: what would you identify as?
(December 24, 2014 at 7:04 pm)rasetsu Wrote: 1.2 meh. Certainty is overrated.

Fiine. Put me down there too... but for all intents and purposes, and unless it's starkly proven otherwise (at this point? it'd take a whole lot of boring nothing)... it may as well be 1.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#32
RE: what would you identify as?
I'm a 6.5. I'd be deeply horrified if the Xian god turned out to exist. I'd be at least disappointed if some other god made itself known. I like evolution. It makes sense. I like things to make sense.

I love funeral potatoes, though. <3
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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#33
RE: what would you identify as?
I disagree because I identify myself as a gnostic atheist and I don't think I am 100% sure, just like I'm not 100% sure about gravity, yet I claim knowledge on it
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#34
RE: what would you identify as?
Really depends on the god. For a deist god I'm a 5 for the abrahamic god I'm a eight.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#35
RE: what would you identify as?
If I'm 99% sure there is no god, what worth is there in calling myself an agnostic just by 1%? *Just douchebag comments from drunken Santa.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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#36
RE: what would you identify as?
With regards to your god? 7.
With regards to any god? 6.

Then again, I'm an apatheist, so I really don't care.
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#37
RE: what would you identify as?
I've never seen where the Dawkins scale requires integers so
I'm asymptotically up against 7 even for the logically inconsistent gods (the self contradictory omnigods).
I can't get to 7 on those because, though they contradict logic, and though I
can't conceive of a system in which the logic we know does not hold, I can
conceive of the possible existence of a system of which I cannot conceive, one where
our normal logic doesn't apply, e.g. A and notA are simultaneously true for some A.
I know my "religious views" above show only 6.99999999 (or roughly one chance in seven hundred million,
(a slightly lower liklihood than winning Powerball on a single ticket)) but I only use that figure to avoid filling the screen with 9s.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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#38
RE: what would you identify as?
That brings back my question - Why is it worth being uncertain just because of 0.1% chance? I'm only 99.9% sure gravity exists yet I'm a firm believer and I claim knowledge on it, possibly a 7 on a Dawkins scale.
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#39
RE: what would you identify as?
I am a 7 on the scale for the Abrahamic omnigods.

I am a 6 for any other god.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#40
RE: what would you identify as?
(December 24, 2014 at 4:43 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Hello and welcome! Why don't you post a thread in the Introduction forum so we can all get to know you? We'll bring biscuits!

Also, my views are:
against omnimax deities: 7 gnostic atheist (they fall in the realm of logical paradoxes)

against other deities: 6.9999

against pantheist claims: 6

Well-put, and a note-for-note layout of my views.

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