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What is in a label?

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What is in a label?
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RE: What is in a label?
January 4, 2009 at 6:15 pm
(January 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
(January 4, 2009 at 1:25 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: "Atheist" is more succinct than "I have no belief in god(s)" and if the English language were full of phrases instead of words a discussion would be awfully long.
Succintness is only an illusion when you have to define it over and over again.

Sounds like philosophical BS to me!!!

(January 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Also, why adopt a label for yourself in terms of how you are not complying to the stance of someone else?

Why not? I assume most words derive their meaning from somewhere ... it doesn't bother me that "atheist" inherently relies on the meaning of "theist". Why should it?

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What is in a label?

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What is in a label? - by puglover - January 1, 2009 at 1:29 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Demonaura - January 1, 2009 at 3:58 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 1, 2009 at 7:25 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Darwinian - January 1, 2009 at 7:30 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 1, 2009 at 7:35 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Darwinian - January 1, 2009 at 7:40 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 1, 2009 at 7:50 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 1, 2009 at 8:28 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 1, 2009 at 9:37 am
RE: What is in a label? - by CoxRox - January 1, 2009 at 2:50 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 1, 2009 at 3:43 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Tiberius - January 1, 2009 at 12:43 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by CoxRox - January 1, 2009 at 4:11 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 2, 2009 at 8:49 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 1, 2009 at 4:33 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by CoxRox - January 1, 2009 at 7:23 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 2, 2009 at 1:45 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 2, 2009 at 4:34 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 2, 2009 at 4:36 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 2, 2009 at 4:44 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 2, 2009 at 4:47 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Darwinian - January 2, 2009 at 6:05 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 2, 2009 at 7:28 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 2, 2009 at 8:01 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Darwinian - January 2, 2009 at 8:23 am
RE: What is in a label? - by CoxRox - January 2, 2009 at 3:48 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 2, 2009 at 5:27 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 2, 2009 at 7:38 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 2, 2009 at 7:43 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 3, 2009 at 12:02 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 3, 2009 at 3:05 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 3, 2009 at 3:23 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 3, 2009 at 5:55 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 4, 2009 at 5:18 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 4, 2009 at 1:25 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 4, 2009 at 6:15 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 4, 2009 at 6:41 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 5, 2009 at 7:34 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 5, 2009 at 8:07 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 5, 2009 at 12:55 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 3, 2009 at 3:27 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Eilonnwy - January 4, 2009 at 1:09 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 3, 2009 at 8:16 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 3, 2009 at 8:34 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 3, 2009 at 8:38 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 3, 2009 at 8:56 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 3, 2009 at 10:06 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 4, 2009 at 9:29 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Eilonnwy - January 4, 2009 at 11:10 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 5, 2009 at 1:56 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 5, 2009 at 7:40 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 5, 2009 at 8:30 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Eilonnwy - January 5, 2009 at 9:20 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 5, 2009 at 4:10 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 5, 2009 at 6:40 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 6, 2009 at 2:08 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 6, 2009 at 6:19 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Purple Rabbit - January 6, 2009 at 1:53 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 7, 2009 at 7:45 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 6, 2009 at 7:19 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 6, 2009 at 9:53 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 6, 2009 at 11:51 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 6, 2009 at 11:57 am
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 17, 2009 at 10:28 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 17, 2009 at 10:40 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by puglover - January 17, 2009 at 11:27 pm
RE: What is in a label? - by Kyuuketsuki - January 19, 2009 at 5:03 am
RE: What is in a label? - by LukeMC - January 18, 2009 at 10:41 am
RE: What is in a label? - by leo-rcc - January 18, 2009 at 11:52 am
RE: What is in a label? - by Edwardo Piet - January 19, 2009 at 7:11 am

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