RE: Tooth Fairy Bullshit
January 17, 2017 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2017 at 6:44 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(January 17, 2017 at 6:25 pm)Asmodee Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 5:43 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Belief and faith are synonymous, there is no difference...That is absolutely not true. In fact, most Christians don't even believe that. I can't tell you how many times a Christian has told me that God couldn't prove himself because then we would have to believe and faith wouldn't be necessary. In fact, that came up in a conversation I had rather recently here:
So you're going to argue with a damn dictionary/thesaurus?
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/synonym
Quote:synonym
1 A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/belief
Quote:belief
3. confidence; faith; trust:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belief
Quote:
- Synonyms and Antonyms of belief
- mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon <a [i]belief in UFO's led him to relentlessly scan the nighttime skies>[/i]
- Synonyms credence, credit, faith
- Related Words axiom, law, precept, principle, tenet; assurance, certainty, certitude, conviction, positiveness, sureness; confidence, dependence (also dependance), reliance, trust; hope; doctrine, dogma, philosophy; dogmatism, fanaticism, insistence
- Phrases article of faith
- Near Antonyms distrust, mistrust, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty
- Antonyms disbelief, discredit, doubt, nonbelief, unbelief
(January 17, 2017 at 6:30 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 6:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Do the creators of World of Warcraft exist in WoW's reality?
World of Warcraft runs on servers using the same laws of physics as the people who wrote the code.
Yet the rules that apply to warcrafts "world", don't apply to the people that created it, correct?