Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: December 9, 2024, 8:53 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
#31
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
I'm always fascinated when theists of the DOS and Bill Craig type toss around Dostoevsky via quote-mining. Not sure where in the Christian tradition they'd have picked up a tactic like that... Oh, hey Tertullian.
"The reason things will never get better is because people keep electing these rich cocksuckers who don't give a shit about you."
-George Carlin
Reply
#32
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 2:13 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Stop copy and pasting, this is spamming and I'll report you for it if you do it again.

Would that lead to a moderator booting DOS?

(December 6, 2013 at 4:25 pm)DOS Wrote: There are lots of criminals who would easily slaughter you because it agrees with their own reasons (money, stupid bitch, big mouth etc) and their common sense even though it's being written down on paper that it's a violation of the law.

What about the criminals who slaughtered so many because they didn't agree with their specific interpretation of one stupid religion?
Reply
#33
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 4:25 pm)DOS Wrote: There are lots of criminals who would easily slaughter you because it agrees with their own reasons (money, stupid bitch, big mouth etc) and their common sense even though it's being written down on paper that it's a violation of the law.

You understand the difference between a belief and an action, right? For example I believe you were dropped on your head as a child, but I am not going to actually drop you or anyone else on their head.
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto

"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
Reply
#34
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 4:53 pm)TaraJo Wrote:
(December 6, 2013 at 4:25 pm)DOS Wrote: There are lots of criminals who would easily slaughter you because it agrees with their own reasons (money, stupid bitch, big mouth etc) and their common sense even though it's being written down on paper that it's a violation of the law.

You understand the difference between a belief and an action, right? For example I believe you were dropped on your head as a child, but I am not going to actually drop you or anyone else on their head.
Belief without action is nonsense.
Reply
#35
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
Did you just get gayer?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Reply
#36
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 5:16 pm)DOS Wrote:
(December 6, 2013 at 4:53 pm)TaraJo Wrote: You understand the difference between a belief and an action, right? For example I believe you were dropped on your head as a child, but I am not going to actually drop you or anyone else on their head.
Belief without action is nonsense.

Belief without evidence is nonsense. Action does not make a nonsense belief any less nonsensical. Belief founded on evidence, irrespective of action, is sound.


(December 6, 2013 at 5:19 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Did you just get gayer?

Could he get gayer?
Reply
#37
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 5:16 pm)DOS Wrote:
(December 6, 2013 at 4:53 pm)TaraJo Wrote: You understand the difference between a belief and an action, right? For example I believe you were dropped on your head as a child, but I am not going to actually drop you or anyone else on their head.
Belief without action is nonsense.

Ouch. That was so stupid it made my head hurt.

I believe 2+2=4. How do I act on that? And, by your logic, if we don't act on it, basic math has no value, right?

(December 6, 2013 at 5:19 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Did you just get gayer?

Should I try to turn him out?
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto

"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
Reply
#38
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 3:24 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Y'know, DOS, at best, seems to be making an appeal to authority. Specificall, he's claiming he's right because he's quoting a long since dead philosopher.

The obvious problem with that is, philosophers can be wrong, too.

Pay attention to the quote I'm going to provide here. It may come from a religious figure, but it's a quote that still makes sense (it's part of why atheists seem to be less hostile towards Buddhism than they are most religions). In fact, I like the quote so much I put a variation of it in my signature.

"Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense."

~ Siddhartha Gautama (aka the Buddha)

Is that from the Kalama Sutta? If so, no offense, but that's one of the stupidest sutta in all of the Buddhist canon.


[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]
Reply
#39
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
(December 6, 2013 at 6:52 pm)apophenia Wrote:
(December 6, 2013 at 3:24 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Y'know, DOS, at best, seems to be making an appeal to authority. Specificall, he's claiming he's right because he's quoting a long since dead philosopher.

The obvious problem with that is, philosophers can be wrong, too.

Pay attention to the quote I'm going to provide here. It may come from a religious figure, but it's a quote that still makes sense (it's part of why atheists seem to be less hostile towards Buddhism than they are most religions). In fact, I like the quote so much I put a variation of it in my signature.

"Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense."

~ Siddhartha Gautama (aka the Buddha)

Is that from the Kalama Sutta? If so, no offense, but that's one of the stupidest sutta in all of the Buddhist canon.



I'm not sure exactly where it's from. I might be interested in reading the rest, but even if the rest of it is garbage, that line has value.

Personally, I think Buddhism has a lot of value if you look at it philosophically. First you need to cut out all the super natural mumbo jumto, though.
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto

"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
Reply
#40
RE: The attempts of the atheists are only grotesque
My turn....

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones" ... Stephen King

"The darkness is coming" ... Smaug

"One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad." ... Sheldon Cooper
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Are Atheists Afraid to Join Atheists? Asmodeus 10 716 October 26, 2024 at 9:09 am
Last Post: Asmodeus
  Local woman says only way she has survived during COVID is faith Tomatoshadow2 41 3997 December 21, 2020 at 4:56 pm
Last Post: HappySkeptic
Photo Only 10% of the Nobel prize winners are atheist ? Now I am a Believer 90 9508 January 28, 2020 at 8:29 pm
Last Post: notimportant1234
  Only 10% of the Nobel prize winners are atheist ? Now I am a Believer 0 652 January 18, 2020 at 9:58 am
Last Post: Now I am a Believer
  The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist. Jehanne 29 7382 March 14, 2018 at 10:35 am
Last Post: Jehanne
  I enjoy far right atheists more than lgbt marxist atheists Sopra 4 2418 February 28, 2018 at 9:09 pm
Last Post: Edwardo Piet
  The only way I could believe ....... Brian37 16 3944 April 28, 2017 at 7:25 am
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  Let us think why humanity developed several religions but only one science? Nishant 10 3347 January 4, 2017 at 1:42 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Am I the only one who doesn't want to be called a "Skeptic"? Heat 35 10822 January 11, 2016 at 4:41 am
Last Post: robvalue
Video VenomFangX Attempts to Refute Atheist Arguments Mental Outlaw 18 4497 August 19, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Last Post: robvalue



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)