RE: Has atheism made you different?
April 23, 2013 at 8:30 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2013 at 8:32 am by paulpablo.)
(April 23, 2013 at 8:13 am)Dawud Wrote: Seriously - Rhythm said he was gnostic in certain aspects of his atheism:
He claimed to in some way know that there was no God.
I'm sure there are plenty of people here who will claim to know that there is no God.
I'm just saying that most people believe their knowledge and that there are plenty of people here who I am sure that are happy to say they believe and know there is no God.
The reson I'm trying to get this accross is because I'm trying to get Rhythm to clarify his assertion that atheism cannot affect people's lives.
I say atheism can affect people's lives and I'm sure plenty of people would agree with me.
The problem is that you keep assuming I'm trying to undermine atheism when I'm not - I understand that to approach God philosophically it is fair to be agnostic and claim to not start with an assumption either way. I actually applaud this consistency...
I think that atheism can affect people's lives - Im convinced of it. Rhythm has just been squirming around because he/she just won't agree with me...
Can atheism affect people's lives? I'm pretty sure it can (doesn't mean I'm saying its bad or good or anything like that).
Please try to drop the prejudice that somehow I am an enemy....
Just because someone holds a different stance regarding God doesn't mean that they are just going to attack you!
The problem with the question is someone would have to go into a parallel universe and see what they were like if they believed in god, then come back here and report to you the difference they saw in themselves, also the question as I said would bring back maybe trillions of responses regarding each and every god someone can invent in their mind.
I'm sure being an atheist has effected everyone's life, what clothes you wear in the morning effects your life, but if I asked you has wearing that grandad cap and that brown scarf thing you have on in your picture changed your life you wouldn't know unless you went into a parallel universe and saw what happened to yourself without those items of clothing on, and theoretically your life could be completely the same. For example a girl could approach you and say ohhh I love that grandad cap you have on, but she could just be attracted to you anyway and she might have approached you and complimented you on any hat you were wearing.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
