The Sects of Atheism

[The Grand Nudger]

That's only because bigfootists don't hold and abuse positions of power and authority and drill that shit into their poor kids with the imprimatur of civil society....try to write bigfoots laws and cast bigfoots vote. If there were, there would be, and we'd definitely need a term for thinking all of that was flaming hot garbage on the fundamental merits of it's own claims.

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I thought disbelief was the province of the Cynics?

Well, I'm not well versed in Cynicism. But I was thinking Pyrrho, who was said to be needed to be stopped from walking off a cliff by his followers. That's straight up disbelief that the cliff is there. Simple doubt would urge one to stop walking.

You know, in all of the times we've had occasion to chatter back and forth about philosophy, I realized something about myself, why my interests are so constrained.  The Big Ones...well, we all (I know, I know) already know what they thought, and even when we know they were wrong we toss participation trophies and accolades at them.  There were others, though, who barely get a mention or an also-ran in the contemporary mind because their opinions (then) were suppressed as a matter of political or cultural course who seem...for all the world...to have had much more relevant and accurate thoughts on any number of issues deemed important or illustrative today.

Literally taking the word of people who shit-talked those others and their positions because they did grievous harm to the ludicrous beliefs they intended to trade for worldly power. In the case of our new friend Gary, not even being able to imagine otherwise...because of that.