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If You Were An Atheist
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RE: If You Were An Atheist
(August 19, 2015 at 10:56 am)lkingpinl Wrote:
(August 19, 2015 at 10:44 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Absolutely.  There certainly is the way things stand.  I believe in a real, physical world alright, but statements regarding those things?  Their truth is not only contingent upon the way things actually stand in the world but on the adequacy of language to capture important aspects of those things.  I think descriptions of reality are always incomplete and filtered by the language.  Statements are never 'absolute'.  Therefore truth cannot be either.

But that logic would make this statement not absolute and not always true.  It's self defeating.

Exactly.  Unfortunately for you my statement doesn't leave room for its negation or any other statement to be absolute.
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If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 13, 2015 at 1:19 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Homeless Nutter - August 13, 2015 at 1:22 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 13, 2015 at 1:52 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ignoramus - August 13, 2015 at 1:59 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 13, 2015 at 2:02 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 13, 2015 at 4:28 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2015 at 1:32 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Lemonvariable72 - August 13, 2015 at 2:36 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Rhondazvous - August 14, 2015 at 3:54 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 14, 2015 at 4:28 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Longhorn - August 13, 2015 at 3:01 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 13, 2015 at 6:21 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Iroscato - August 13, 2015 at 6:30 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nay_Sayer - August 15, 2015 at 12:43 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 13, 2015 at 9:04 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Faith No More - August 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by TubbyTubby - August 13, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 6:07 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 6:21 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 8:07 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 8:13 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 9:46 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 10:15 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 11:31 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Longhorn - August 14, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 12:05 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 14, 2015 at 11:18 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2015 at 1:35 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 14, 2015 at 1:48 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 2:47 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Salacious B. Crumb - August 14, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 2:55 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Salacious B. Crumb - August 14, 2015 at 3:17 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 14, 2015 at 2:55 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 2:59 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 14, 2015 at 4:26 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Rhondazvous - August 14, 2015 at 7:00 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 14, 2015 at 5:15 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 7:32 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 14, 2015 at 10:49 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 15, 2015 at 12:24 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by robvalue - August 14, 2015 at 9:21 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2015 at 1:36 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by robvalue - August 14, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 14, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Homeless Nutter - August 14, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 14, 2015 at 11:21 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 14, 2015 at 1:13 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 14, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 14, 2015 at 2:41 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - August 15, 2015 at 11:37 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Ravenshire - August 21, 2015 at 1:09 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Drich - August 14, 2015 at 11:32 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 12:06 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Longhorn - August 14, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 14, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 14, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 14, 2015 at 3:18 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 14, 2015 at 3:20 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Salacious B. Crumb - August 14, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by John V - August 15, 2015 at 5:31 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Nope - August 15, 2015 at 7:48 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 18, 2015 at 6:53 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Homeless Nutter - August 15, 2015 at 5:49 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Ravenshire - August 21, 2015 at 1:14 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Rhondazvous - August 14, 2015 at 4:57 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Silver - August 15, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by robvalue - August 15, 2015 at 3:48 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by robvalue - August 15, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 19, 2015 at 5:02 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 19, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 19, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 19, 2015 at 7:26 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Homeless Nutter - August 19, 2015 at 9:52 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by downbeatplumb - August 28, 2015 at 11:10 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 28, 2015 at 11:17 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Catholic_Lady - August 28, 2015 at 11:25 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 28, 2015 at 11:45 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Catholic_Lady - August 28, 2015 at 11:50 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by downbeatplumb - August 28, 2015 at 12:06 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 19, 2015 at 9:58 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 19, 2015 at 10:09 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Ayen - August 19, 2015 at 10:03 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 19, 2015 at 10:44 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 19, 2015 at 10:56 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 19, 2015 at 3:28 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 19, 2015 at 3:32 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Iroscato - August 25, 2015 at 9:02 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 8:28 pm
If You Were An Atheist - by Kingpin - August 19, 2015 at 8:41 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 19, 2015 at 8:44 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Pyrrho - August 19, 2015 at 9:44 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 21, 2015 at 12:54 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Divinity - August 25, 2015 at 2:00 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 25, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Divinity - August 25, 2015 at 8:26 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Whateverist - August 25, 2015 at 8:30 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 25, 2015 at 9:37 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Divinity - August 27, 2015 at 4:50 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Shuffle - August 28, 2015 at 12:53 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Catholic_Lady - August 28, 2015 at 11:08 am
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by The Grand Nudger - August 25, 2015 at 9:43 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Catholic_Lady - August 27, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Crossless1 - August 27, 2015 at 4:50 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Catholic_Lady - August 27, 2015 at 4:54 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Crossless1 - August 27, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: If You Were An Atheist - by Lemonvariable72 - August 28, 2015 at 12:47 pm

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