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Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
(January 16, 2016 at 8:48 pm)ktrap Wrote:
(January 16, 2016 at 5:52 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: Thus in lieu of any real meaning, say (or at least one that one can comprehend), would you be content to make it up?

What of there is no meaning? Or what If you give it meaning through your own subjective experience?

I ask, does it even make sense to ask the question? What if your meaning differs from another?

Please elucidate. What exactly does 'meditation' do in trying to satisfy the question that a beer with friends doesn't? Or a heart to heart with a loved one? Or simple dreaming?

What are your comparators and how are they controlled and calculated?

  This is exactly my point about being lazy.  Why don't you sit somewhere, think about the questions you are asking me, do the things you are talking about and try to find the answer, talk to others and see what you find.  You want me to give an answer on a plate.  That is not how it is going happen, it could take almost a lifetime to find the answer or could be very short if you happen to be in the right circumstances.

  Anyway, for me the meaning of life is remove myself from materialism so that I would not be bounded to the physical world again.
 
  This is hard for Atheists to accept (probably accomplish) as physical and materialism is the only thing that is true for them, the rest is false,

So just to clarify, you are incapable of answering the simple questions forwarded and have instead resorted to insults. I'm not asking for answers 'on a plate'. A reasonable person will have quite obviously noted that I never once asked what the 'meaning of life' is. Instead I asked for how you calculate your comparators and what's controls you use regarding your supposed 'meaning' vis those that others draw or seek from their own examination(s).

An intelligent person would have been able to answer or to muse over the questions with a degree of intellectual honesty and curiosity and engaged in a rational discussion.

What you have done is instead ignored everything and carried on insulting whoever engages you. I think therefore that you are either a troll with no intent on honest discussion or that you lack the intellectual capacity to actually answer the questions, or perhaps both. I think it's the last option, but I honestly don't really care either way seeing as you are utterly devoid of critical thinking skills or skills per se.

What an incredibly intelligent and educated person you must be Dodgy I'll leave the questions open for you to answer if you can develop the thinking skills necessary to actually answer them at some point in the future.

Until then, I leave with you with the advice, as a moderator, that if your only intention here is troll and insult people, you will be dealt with accordingly.
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RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion? - by Fidel_Castronaut - January 17, 2016 at 7:12 am

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