RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
April 11, 2013 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2013 at 4:16 pm by Whateverist.)
(April 11, 2013 at 8:53 am)Tonus Wrote: I think this is just the realization that a person's belief system doesn't change them as much as we like to think it does. We are who we are, and as much as we like to define others in simple terms (while reveling in our own depth of personality), people are a mixture of conscious and sub-conscious beliefs and behaviors that we don't understand anywhere near as much as we'd like to think we do. A person who becomes an atheist is still, on many levels, the person he was when he was a theist, and vice-versa.
So becoming atheist won't make me smarter or cure my asshole tendencies?
Damn!
(April 11, 2013 at 3:30 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: [rises up to her full height of 5'3".]
PEASANTS?!?!
Sheath thy claws oh queenly one. If anyone needs slaying just let one us peons do your bidding. Shall it be a clean death or one he shan't forget?
