RE: Atheism and morality
July 9, 2013 at 5:24 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2013 at 5:27 am by Cyberman.)
(July 8, 2013 at 10:32 pm)Inigo Wrote: Re theism - I am not a theist because I do not believe in a creator god who is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good. And that is what I understand the word 'theist' to mean. If you do not, bully for you. I don't care. Put whatever label on me you want, but I don't put that label on me.
Oh, if you crave authorities telling you about what terms means (which is quite beyond me - once someone has told you what they mean by a term that's really all you need to know, the rest is just semantics)
Dictionaries record the usgae of words. That's all they do. Lexicographers don't invent words and then try to come up with definitions to go with them . That's what makes their work so useful as a reference source - it's not merely arguing from authority. Making up your own personal definitions for commonly established words might be fun, but be aware that by doing so you're desperately attempting to define your own argument into existence. In fact, I know you are aware of this because I've yet to see a post from you that doesn't depend on some variation of "well, I'm defining [word] to mean..." to make it work.
I quite agree this is tedious. You're not the first to go down this road and I forecast there'll be someone else following you before too long.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
