RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 24, 2013 at 3:43 pm
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Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
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 RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 24, 2013 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2013 at 6:10 pm by Confused Ape.)
 Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
I think being rational is using reason, science and logic to come to good sound conclusions. They are irrational because they rely on "faith". They (theists) believe for the sake of believing. What is your position Blossom?
"I trust my own reason and my own capacities to think and educate myself and to reach greater levels of knowlege and status through learning and work. To me, wishing for a god is like wishing to be a slave, it is like declaring that one is too incompetent to handle one's own affairs." - the germans are coming
RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 24, 2013 at 7:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2013 at 7:09 pm by Confused Ape.)
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies? (January 24, 2013 at 1:12 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: Only strong atheists have no doubt that there are no gods. I don't have any doubt that there are no gods, but it isn't because of atheism at all: it's because I couldn't care less if they aren't explicitly making themselves known to me by fucking me over a slowly-turning spit. This is oft-referred to as 'getting screwed'. Getting nailed is so 20th century 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
getting spit roasted sounds more like it from how you described it
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 25, 2013 at 12:11 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2013 at 12:18 am by Violet.)
(January 24, 2013 at 6:05 pm)TromboneAtheist Wrote: I think being rational is using reason, science and logic to come to good sound conclusions. Why these things specifically, and why must the conclusion always be 'good/sound' for it to be rational? I'd also note that many a theist uses reason as the foundation of their conclusion, and you'll notice every time you ask someone why they believe *anything*: they will respond with reasons. Or by flipping you off, some people are just assholes Quote:They are irrational because they rely on "faith". They (theists) believe for the sake of believing. What is your position Blossom? If a theist is irrational for relying upon their faith, then a "rationalist" is also irrational for relying upon their faith. Faith is confidence, confidence is trust, trust is belief, and belief is the foundation of all that is 'true'. Without faith in the scientific method, without an absence of significant doubt in the truth of that which we have reason to believe, without an utter confidence in determinism: we would never have moved beyond the first scientific experiment, as it would be endlessly retested due to the absence of faith in the system... and today there would be no computers, no toilets, no manmade lightning. For theists, their faith is in a different system... and there are so many theists and so many systems, the only thing in common being 'gods'. One theist cannot speak for all others, as one atheist also cannot speak for all others... and every single one of all of them is wrong about everything... ... maybe!  (January 25, 2013 at 12:04 am)paulpablo Wrote: getting spit roasted sounds more like it from how you described it Well, to be more accurate, it would be "getting screwed while baked"... but really: who's sober enough to notice the omission?  Maybe people are getting smarter... usually people don't notice when I do shit like that in an already comical post. Or perhaps it's because they are becoming dense enough to miss the humor in the first place?  Edit: I bet he doesn't even understand 5 of the 7 double entendres I made in that post ![[Image: polls_Crying_Smiley_by_AjnosFTW_2911_255...large.jpeg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=images.sodahead.com%2Fpolls%2F000292617%2Fpolls_Crying_Smiley_by_AjnosFTW_2911_255619_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg) Sherlock Holmes: Look at you lot, you're all so vacant. Is it nice not being me? It must be so relaxing. Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
i wasnt literally correcting you there i was just making a joke, spit roasting is a sexual possition, in the uk a lot of footballers get in trouble for doing it, and it gets written about in newspapers as a scandal
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. (January 25, 2013 at 12:22 am)paulpablo Wrote: i wasnt literally correcting you there i was just making a joke, spit roasting is a sexual possition, in the uk a lot of footballers get in trouble for doing it, and it gets written about in newspapers as a scandal THE UK HAS SEX SCANDALS?!  hock:... And there was me, thinking it was normal for all you blighters to walk around naked shagging your sheep. Guess it's just the Welsh
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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