RE: The redneck strike again.
August 29, 2014 at 2:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2014 at 2:52 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: If you don't understand the meaning of the term CONTRADICTORY then you wouldn't know the meaning of the word OXYMORON.
Your issue isn't just that you don't understand that there's no self-contradiction in the word 'atheist', but that you also don't understand what 'expression', 'phrase', or 'figure of speech' mean either, at least in this context.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: What is contradictory in anyone thinking that God does not exist?
Even if it were contradictory, it would not be an oxymoron. We're trying to teach you English, here. A paradox is self-contradicting, but the word 'paradox' is not an oxymoron. 'Paradoxically unparadoxical' would be one, though.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: An atheist think that God does not exist but at the same time he-she proceed toward God so God exist despite the believe that he does not exist.
That we proceed toward God AND that doing so would mean that God exists are both unsupported assertions, and therefore worthless as evidence. Believing that God doesn't exist isn't a very fair representation either, most of us merely think God is highly unlikely.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: This is highly CONTRADICTORY mister therefore i can say that atheism is an oxymoron.
Repeating that it's contradictory over and over won't make it so, and if it were true, it still wouldn't make the word an oxymoron because, English.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: Now you guys can say that you do not proceed toward God therefore your believe is not CONTRADICTORY but the evidence is there to show that you do proceed toward God.
Saying there is evidence without presenting it is typical of people who are lying about having evidence.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: One more oxymoron is the fact that you guys think that your philosophy forum talk about philosophy when in fact 99% of the threads in that forum have absolutely nothing to do with philosophy but that is one more problem of yours.
Again, even if your claim is true, it's not an oxymoron.
(August 15, 2014 at 3:54 am)Riketto Wrote: Now if you want to talk about whether you proceed toward God or not i am fully available to discuss that point.
Let's talk about your unwillingness to accept the word of native speakers of a language about how their language works. My Russian is about as good as your English, and I would never dream of asserting to multiple native Russian speakers that my understanding of a word is the correct one when they agree I am misunderstanding it.
(August 17, 2014 at 6:48 am)Riketto Wrote: Oh, a yogini that swear
That is not very nice.
I've not noticed a particular avoidance of swearing or arguing online by yogis or yoginis. The most obnoxious poster I've ever encountered was a yogi.
(August 17, 2014 at 6:48 am)Riketto Wrote: Anyway after all your bla, bla, bla, you haven't told us why it is not contradictory.
That's because it not being contradictory is not even the main reason it's not an oxymoron.
(August 17, 2014 at 6:48 am)Riketto Wrote: Explain where is the logic in someone who say that God does not exist and at the same time proceed toward God by trying to learn and improve his-her life all the time.
Until you prove that trying to improve our lives is 'proceeding toward God', there's no need to explain the logic of not believing it's true. We don't believe it's true because you haven't established that it is, in fact, true. Funny how that works, eh?
(August 17, 2014 at 6:48 am)Riketto Wrote: Tell us where do you think that that effort will eventually lead to?
A life well-lived, while it lasted.
(August 18, 2014 at 9:39 am)Riketto Wrote:(August 17, 2014 at 1:04 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Again, it has nothing to do with contradiction.
Is the word "atheism" a pair of terms? No it is not. It's one word. Therefore it's not an oxymoron.
In reality there are two.......opposed or markedly contradictory terms......that are......... placed in conjunction for emphasis.
On one side we got the guy who say that God does not exist, on the other side there is the reality that God exist for the reasons that i already said so the contradiction is there.
If you're right about God existing, not believing that is not a contradiction, just incorrect. If I think the sun revolves around the earth, that's not a contradiction, just wrong.
(August 18, 2014 at 9:39 am)Riketto Wrote: Wrong again yogini.
The guy who say that God does not exist refer to the idea that something outside his existence is not there when in fact is there so the contradiction is external not internal therefore there is NO singularity.
The contradiction in an oxymoron must be an internal contradiction, contained within the terms themselves. Being in contradiction with reality is just wrong, not a self-contradiction. A 'theistic atheist' or 'atheistic theist' would be examples of oxymorons.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.