RE: Ask a former atheist
November 15, 2017 at 3:28 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2017 at 3:53 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
(November 15, 2017 at 1:26 am)Grandizer Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 12:17 am)pool the matey Wrote: Demons would want me dead, aliens are a product of our imagination, super AI from the future is just a concept we made up for a movie, I don't know what other powerful beings are. I see your point, I could've attributed what happened to any other thing but why did I attribute it specifically to God, right? I think the reason is because of what I felt at that moment, I didn't feel a demon going "mwahaha" I felt a father helping out a child, I felt God. That's what I FELT and we don't feel things in a vacuum, so something must've happened that triggered that feeling. I can't really provide hard evidence if that's what you're asking.
Great, so it ain't necessarily God then. At least not in any concrete sense. You just don't know what it is exactly, but you can call it "God" if you choose.
To be clear what I felt was something that I have associated with God. Obviously I can't know for 100% but that's what I felt at that moment. I don't know if I can explain it further or better because it was a feeling though sorry
(November 15, 2017 at 1:22 am)Succubus Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 12:17 am)pool the matey Wrote:
This sub forum doesn't have a protective status. It has some guidelines, guidelines that I didn't make but are there for a reason. I think what you mean by "certain instances" is "when a theist(like myself) makes a thread" and what you mean by "abuse" is "I can't troll this theist". I don't make the rules bro, if you want changes you're much better off asking the admins.
I'm glad you asked, I was referring to this:
Quote:I'm the only atheist gone back I know, though it's not a rare phenomenon. Most people have either been believers all their life and some turned atheist at some point and never went back, of those that went atheist 99% didn't even bother looking at different arguments regarding theism and atheism, the majority of their reasoning is "if I say **** you God nobody will smack me in the head so I can say that", one of the smartest atheist I knew I asked him to explain to me why and he went "uh well you see religion is real right? But uh the uh god is um fake".
You know nicely that if you had posted this in any other forum you would have been jumped on.
I'm sure you're glad, my only answer should be "no" but if I stop at that others will think there's truth to what you said. So I'll explain.
That post I made was a reply to this post:
Whateverist Wrote:Ask a former atheist: why, you know one?
So first of all I was not having that conversation with you. Second of all in my reply(the one you quoted) I was talking about atheists I know irl as a reply to Whateverist. He knew that and people that were part of the conversation also knew that, either you're mistakenly taken it out of context because you were not part of the conversation or you're purposely doing it(if that's the case I don't appreciate it). Look at what Aroura posted after:
Aroura Wrote:Is that really the smartest atheist you know? Did you mean IRL or including online people? And are those the same arguments you see, for instance, on these forums?
My reply:
Quote:It is the smartest atheist I know irl, I have encountered even smarter ones(the ones around here not Americans) online but not nearly as advanced as the people in this forum, it is for example very easy to win debates with atheists on social media sites. Atheism is not a huge thing around here, only a small group of young rebels and otherwise older weird types are atheists around here(no offense to atheists in this forum). We are family oriented mostly but I can understand how a individualistic culture can draw people towards atheism.
If you thought I was talking about atheists here you are wrong. This is what I said about atheists in this forum:
Quote:but not nearly as advanced as the people in this forum
Succubus Wrote:You know nicely that if you had posted this in any other forum you would have been jumped on.
No. You are implying that I purposely posted it specifically in this sub forum with the intention of not getting jumped. Again, you were not part of the conversation that's why you think that or someone is deliberately trying to mislead you. Secondly there's no way I could've known Whateverist would ask me that question and plan in advance to post in this specific sub forum to not get "jumped", you feel that because you were not part of the conversation or you're just being silly.
