RE: Systematically Dismantling Atheism
November 21, 2014 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2014 at 6:11 pm by Asmodee.)
(November 21, 2014 at 5:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: As succintly and as accurately as possible, so you can decide whether or not you want to have the same conversation that I was having with you. My position is this.I understand your position perfectly. You keep restating it and asserting that I MUST not understand it if I don't agree with you. This is not the case. I simply don't agree with you.
There are many things that a person can be agnostic about. There are -at least some- things that we cannot. Among those things, in my opinion, is the status of our own beliefs. Not the accuracy of the beliefs - not whether it;s right or wrong to hold the belief. Simply - we know whether we do - or do not....believe any given thing. I'm of the opinion that to state otherwise would be to state that we did not know our own minds - and if we did not know our own minds..how can we say that we know...that we do not know what we believe?
We do not know our own minds, at least, not fully. We know our own minds better than anyone else does, though. That fact alone is enough to make me accept that if someone is telling me that their position is that they are agnostic, that is probably their position. I'm not so arrogant or stuck on my own beliefs to think that I know better than they.
(November 21, 2014 at 5:33 pm)LastPoet Wrote: There are times a bad aim can save one's life life then.
I don't think it was bad aim. He was playing Russian Roulette. He lost. He lost some teeth is what he lost, but I think he was purposely not aiming at the important bits.