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Strong Atheism
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RE: Strong Atheism
(May 8, 2014 at 1:49 pm)Tonus Wrote:
(May 7, 2014 at 6:31 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I don't think the question "is there a god?" can be answered, positively or negatively, with any honesty, and same goes for more specific gods. Granted, they're highly unlikely, and highly improbable- and believe me, I leave no room for them- but I'm not a fan of absolutes when I can't know absolutely.
Yeah, but there are a lot of things we can never prove absolutely, yet we treat as if they are not there with a certainty. Heck, some of them are beings that we may have been convinced exist at some point in our lives (Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Boogey Man, etc). The main difference, for me, turned out to be that no one ever took me aside and admitted that god was something they made up; I had to figure that one out on my own.

We rely on our senses and our ability to think and reason to get us by from day to day. In that day to day life, we constantly dismiss things and treat them as if they were impossible; we don't even pretend to entertain their existence. If someone was insistent enough, we would admit that we could not prove that a banjo-playing jackrabbit wasn't building a set of thrusters on the moon, which it planned to use to crash it into the Earth. But I am pretty sure we wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Right. Which is why I stated what's in bold Smile
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Strong Atheism - by ThePinsir - May 7, 2014 at 4:38 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Silver - May 7, 2014 at 4:45 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by rexbeccarox - May 7, 2014 at 4:49 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by ThePinsir - May 7, 2014 at 4:57 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by rexbeccarox - May 7, 2014 at 6:31 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by The Valkyrie - May 7, 2014 at 9:31 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Tonus - May 8, 2014 at 1:49 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by rexbeccarox - May 11, 2014 at 8:52 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by RobbyPants - May 8, 2014 at 10:26 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by BlackMason - May 11, 2014 at 10:39 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by Confused Ape - May 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Shaggy - May 7, 2014 at 6:40 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Simon Moon - May 7, 2014 at 7:33 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Darkstar - May 7, 2014 at 10:01 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by SteelCurtain - May 7, 2014 at 7:46 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Mister Agenda - May 7, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by ThePinsir - May 7, 2014 at 10:48 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by JuliaL - May 7, 2014 at 10:55 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Whateverist - May 8, 2014 at 10:44 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by ThePinsir - May 8, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by Mr Greene - May 8, 2014 at 11:37 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by CapnAwesome - May 8, 2014 at 12:41 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Angrboda - May 8, 2014 at 1:36 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by tommynba - May 8, 2014 at 2:04 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by ThePinsir - May 8, 2014 at 2:36 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by FreeTony - May 8, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Ben Davis - May 8, 2014 at 4:38 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Confused Ape - May 8, 2014 at 5:58 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Ben Davis - May 9, 2014 at 6:55 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Confused Ape - May 10, 2014 at 11:54 am
RE: Strong Atheism - by Whateverist - May 8, 2014 at 6:43 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Coffee Jesus - May 10, 2014 at 6:28 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by CharnelRC - May 11, 2014 at 7:44 pm
RE: Strong Atheism - by Zidneya - May 11, 2014 at 11:49 pm

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