(December 24, 2009 at 5:16 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Not only me EvF.
Not only you, no. But I mean this is a subjective thing is it not?
Quote:You belief you have no evidence. Is that belief in ignorance? A yet 'higher' form of Argumentum ad Ignorantiam?
I mean I know of no evidence. Any disbelief I have is because I know of no evidence. Just as you no of no evidence of God. That has got nothing to do with the Argument From Ignorance as I've said to you many times before. Sorry but you appear to not understand what it is...
The Argument from Ignorance would be if I claimed that a belief was only true because it it hasn't been proven false or only false because it hasn't been proven true.
To claim that I am arguing from ignorance for not holding a belief because I know of no evidence is kind of silly to say the least IMO.
Prabbit Wrote:Unambiguity of meaning of the word god is precisely what makes the sentence "god exists" an inadequate proposition.
I presume you meant ambiguity?
Well I don't consider it that vague a term. I understand it to mostly mean 'deity', often the abrahamic one...
You appear to be interested in 'Spiritual Enlightenment' somewhat and IMO the world 'Spiritual' is the most ambiguous word in the English language. It can mean anything the person wants it to mean 'to them', and at least "God" often means a supernatural creator/being or 'deity'.
That is why the word 'Spiritual' is my least favourite word in the English language. I can't fucking stand that word I think it sucks... but others may not agree with me. Just as I disagree with people who think the word "God" is particularly ambiguous......
Theists often make it am ambiguous word with their metaphorical bullshit talk... but I think it very often means 'deity' whereas 'Spiritual', as I said, in my experience seems to be able to mean absolutely fucking anything the 'spiritual person' interested in 'spirituality' wants it to.
Spiritual can mean spiritual like related to 'spirits', or it can be completely unrelated to that since you can get it in a secular sense of 'spiritual atheists'... it can mean metaphorically anything the person wants it to mean. It's what it means 'to them', it seems. And then it can also mean 'spiritualism' as in those frauds who talk to the dead (or think they are!!). The paranormal bullshit...
And 'spirit' of course can even mean it as in 'fighting spirit' or "That boy has spirit" or.... alcoholic spirits such as brandy and whisky!!!
/end rant.
EvF
