RE: Systematically Dismantling Atheism
November 21, 2014 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2014 at 4:34 pm by Asmodee.)
(November 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If there is just one thing we can't be agnostic about, that would mean that we can't be agnostic about -anything-....by definition.
(November 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm)Rhythm Wrote: We can be agnostic about some things, but my position is that our beliefs are among those things where the term does not apply.
Wait...WHAT? In one sentence it's all or none, in the next it's not? That doesn't even make any sense.
The first sentence there, that's just wrong, as you point out in the second sentence...
As for the second sentence you are saying that it is your belief that one cannot be agnostic. That's fine, but it is in direct opposition to one whose belief it is that they are agnostic. As I'm sure you well know beliefs are neither right nor wrong. That's why it's something we believe and not something we know. By definition a belief can be neither right nor wrong until it stops being a belief and starts being a fact, either true or false.
That being said, you apparently hold the belief that another belief is wrong.
(November 21, 2014 at 4:31 pm)Cato Wrote:(November 21, 2014 at 3:35 pm)Asmodee Wrote: LOL, I can actually do that. A computer is made up of many components. I can simply unplug half of them. The combination of those parts make up "my computer" as a whole, therefore my computer very much CAN BE half on and half off.
Not if there's an odd number of components.
I own a computer store. I'll just throw another DVD drive in it.