RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
October 5, 2015 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 11:53 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 4, 2015 at 9:16 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(October 4, 2015 at 8:55 pm)EvidenceVersusFaith Wrote: The verb, defined from google.com:
lack=
It's the deficient part that pisses me off. Pet peeve of mine, years ago I used to say lack and I saw that - as a thesaurus reader, I spent 8 months reading a thesaurus- and it pissed me right off lol.
So I just say absence, meh. Without works but I usually hear people say "lack" half the time and "absence" half the time, I stick with "absence".
My two cents,
Silly pet peeve,
Peace out,
EvF
So you object to being deficient in stupidity, foolishness, insanity, assholishness, etc.? Lacking something is a good thing, if what one lacks is bad. It is only if one lacks something good that lacking something may be bad.
The point is kind of that "to lack something bad" or be "deficient in something bad" makes no sense. You can by definition only lack a good thing. To be without or absent of something bad makes sense however. To say I lack belief seems to suggest not only that I don't believe but that I believe I ought to.
