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Is atheism a belief system in someway?
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 12:10 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth. Atheism leads inexorably toward nihilism, whether they accept it or not. So in the end, they're really just nihilists

You always say that, yet you never have anything better to support it with than, "because without my god, life is meaningless." You've never been able to justify your presupposition that meaning is worthless if not from an external source.
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 12:33 am
Yeah, just seems like an individual quirk to me. I've never understood why anyone would think themselves the measure of all things. It does kind of explain the need to claim an objective source for everything. It would be rather immodest otherwise.
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 5:41 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth. Atheism leads inexorably toward nihilism, whether they accept it or not. So in the end, they're really just nihilists

I disagree.

What generally pisses atheists off is saying that atheism = nihilism based on nothing more than your own egotism and the sense that you know you're right.

What a silly man you are.
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 5:47 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth. Atheism leads inexorably toward nihilism, whether they accept it or not. So in the end, they're really just nihilists

Who needs introspection and self discovery, when we've got Chad here to tell us all what we actually think! Because remember, if somebody who doesn't know you thinks that the world is magic, they're obviously sensible enough to demand we follow what he wants us to believe! Rolleyes

Seriously, fuck off Chad, you intractable goddamn infant. You don't get to redefine things into whatever best suits your narrative, so how about you try raising your level of discourse above that of a fucking two year old, yeah?
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 6:01 am
(May 13, 2014 at 5:47 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth. Atheism leads inexorably toward nihilism, whether they accept it or not. So in the end, they're really just nihilists

Who needs introspection and self discovery, when we've got Chad here to tell us all what we actually think! Because remember, if somebody who doesn't know you thinks that the world is magic, they're obviously sensible enough to demand we follow what he wants us to believe! Rolleyes

Seriously, fuck off Chad, you intractable goddamn infant. You don't get to redefine things into whatever best suits your narrative, so how about you try raising your level of discourse above that of a fucking two year old, yeah?

Does anyone really take anything Chad has to say seriously? News to me if they do.
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 6:11 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth.
S-so you're saying that this dress really does make me look fat?

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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 7:33 am
(May 13, 2014 at 6:11 am)Tonus Wrote:
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth.
S-so you're saying that this dress really does make me look fat?

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