RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 11, 2019 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2019 at 5:22 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is the correctness of a postulate not also a belief?
Atheists think that the postulate "God exists" is probably not true.
If that's a belief, then atheism is a belief.
When they say they are atheist, and spend hours each day typing about that fact, and are members of at least one forum about that fact, they are really just saying that they just happen to "lack" that particular belief. They probably spend a couple hours a day on nounicorns.com as well.
*ducks*
(March 11, 2019 at 4:43 pm)Shell B Wrote: I've learned from the best that there are people with ill intent and people who are either ignorant of the illness or don't mean anything by their comments. Tibs would much rather people talk about it and learn about it than fight about it. That said, he's given me leave to rip people a new asshole if they're rude to him after an incident where I yelled at an old lady in a craft store. So, before I go up in your esteem, remember that I brought the ruckus in a fucking craft store of all places.
My case was worse. I was likening Bucky Ball to a person with Tourette's because he seemed unable to control his typing, which struck me as strange.
But the importance of pointing that out, next to the importance of not using that kind of term in a derogatory way-- it's not even in the same universe.
That's the 80s coming up in me, which popularized great classics like "What're you lookin' at, faggit?" and "Do you have a fuckin' problem, retard?" I'm not much for PC, but I think there is now some temperance in regard to that kind of aggression which is a good thing.
As for ripping old ladies new assholes in craft stories-- how could that do ANYTHING but increase my esteem for you? Old ladies are quite often total bitches, because they think people will let them get away with it. I remember when I was 18 and I had my first real gf. I picked a flower in Stanley Park in Vancouver to put in her hair-- and I mean there are MILLIONS of flowers in the park in spring there. Like. . . the petals literally carpet the walkways, and are practically a slipping hazard. And some old bitch has to shit on the moment: "Those flowers are for EVERYONE. . . you're being selfish." I was of the opinion that if she was that bitter, it was time for her to consider walking into the ocean.
