(December 17, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Reflex Wrote: DBP's post is a excellent example of carelessness. If you read a little further in the article, you'll see that Wikipedia's introductory "definition" has little or nothing in common with the word's etymology, which is much more specific. Overall, it is a grand example what happens when words are carelessly used over time: they lose their specificity and dissolve into ambiguity and meaninglessness.
Reflex, you're an idiot. Words are tools, not masters. You know what words used "carelessly" over time are? Language. It's how we communicate. I used a word that doesn't fit your strict interpretation ("God"), when we still haven't had a demonstration from you as to why that interpretation is the only valid one. Meanwhile you're free to equate atheism with religion as merrily as you like, without holding yourself to the same standard you impose on me. I wonder what the word for that might be...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
