(January 6, 2014 at 10:10 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(January 6, 2014 at 2:17 am)rasetsu Wrote: Speak for yourself, Kemosabe. That you are ignorant of alternatives doesn't mean they don't exist.
Lol at the Kemosabe bit. I didn't say alternatives don't exist (hence why I said being an atheist NEARLY always results in being an existential nihilist), I just mean that to avoid it one seems to have to take on a position that upon reflection can be seen to be very, ah, malicious.
Fine, then let me insert the subtext which you ignored.
"That you are ignorant of positive, healthy, non-malicious alternatives doesn't mean they don't exist."
Or are you suggesting that I was proposing bad, malicious alternatives. I think you're still tap-dancing around the limitations of your own perspective in not seeing valid, good alternatives, and then implying that they don't exist. It's a straight argument from ignorance on your part.