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September 25, 2013 at 10:17 am (This post was last modified: September 25, 2013 at 10:20 am by LastPoet.)
(September 25, 2013 at 9:48 am)gall Wrote: I am not sure what happened here.
Simple, you probably replied to Wateverist post by mistake, and whateverist thought you were talking to him.
here is the post you quoted:
(September 25, 2013 at 1:23 am)whateverist Wrote:
(September 24, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: A lot of us point to the supposed intelligence of atheists, but what I've come to realize is that most of us have become atheists at quite a young age. Too young, honestly, to have a full grasp of our logical faculties or the world around us. Age 13 or 14 is simply not when your mind is fully developed. This includes the vast majority of atheist intellectuals who become atheists at a young age and just engage in confirmation bias throughout their academic careers.
I've said it before: it doesn't take a genius to be an atheist and neither will it prevent you from being an idiot. Atheists are just people without a whole lot in common aside from the lack of religious belief.
As for the age at which folk become atheists, I hope you do realize how very much younger most of the religious are when they are indoctrinated as theists?
(September 24, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: Atheists whine. A lot. If you spend time on internet forums, you notice 98% of their time is spent hating Christians and whining about Christianity. For a "rational", "skeptical" group of people, such lack of rationality is alarmingly hypocritical.
About matters of the intellect, atheists are very superficially educated. They have a basic foundation down "EVOLUTION RULZ, GOD SUX HAHA I HAVE BIBEL VURSES THAT SUX LOL" but fundamental nuances are often glossed over or missed because their interest is not in knowing things, but in confirming what they want to be true.
If you stop to realize that all you say applies to many people generally and that people is all atheists really are, you might not be so surprised to realize we take all kinds.
(September 24, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: When I started off as a skeptic, I started with a sense of intimidation. I was scared of all the intellectuals. Now that I'm a little older, a little smarter, a little more educated....I feel sorry for them.
You've come a long way, Vinnie. You've gone from being intimidated to trying to intimidate. But is that really progress? Also, why do you have a picture of John Searle as your avatar?
That one is from whateverist, it was reasonable for him to assume your reply was towards him. In essence a misscommunication.
(September 25, 2013 at 9:48 am)gall Wrote: I am not sure what happened here.
Simple, you probably replied to Wateverist post by mistake, and whateverist thought you were talking to him.
here is the post you quoted:
(September 25, 2013 at 1:23 am)whateverist Wrote: I've said it before: it doesn't take a genius to be an atheist and neither will it prevent you from being an idiot. Atheists are just people without a whole lot in common aside from the lack of religious belief.
As for the age at which folk become atheists, I hope you do realize how very much younger most of the religious are when they are indoctrinated as theists?
If you stop to realize that all you say applies to many people generally and that people is all atheists really are, you might not be so surprised to realize we take all kinds.
You've come a long way, Vinnie. You've gone from being intimidated to trying to intimidate. But is that really progress? Also, why do you have a picture of John Searle as your avatar?
That one is from whateverist, it was reasonable to assume your reply was towards him.
My bad I didn't notice what had happened. I hope I cleared it up.
(September 25, 2013 at 9:48 am)gall Wrote: I am not sure what happened here. This is not quoted correctly and my reply seems not to be showing the way I typed it. I did not look closely after i pushed reply... this seems to have misaligned the quotes and it doesn't make the proper sense now.
[plugs cable back in]
Mwah-ha-haaaa!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(September 24, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: A lot of us point to the supposed intelligence of atheists, but what I've come to realize is that most of us have become atheists at quite a young age. Too young, honestly, to have a full grasp of our logical faculties or the world around us. Age 13 or 14 is simply not when your mind is fully developed. This includes the vast majority of atheist intellectuals who become atheists at a young age and just engage in confirmation bias throughout their academic careers.
Humans are not rational creatures. They are creatures capable of being rational.
Atheism is a rational proposition. Atheists are not rational most of the time just like any other humans.
They're just rational about their conclusion of the god proposition.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
(September 25, 2013 at 10:17 am)LastPoet Wrote: Simple, you probably replied to Wateverist post by mistake, and whateverist thought you were talking to him.
here is the post you quoted:
That one is from whateverist, it was reasonable to assume your reply was towards him.
My bad I didn't notice what had happened. I hope I cleared it up.