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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 8:25 pm
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(May 30, 2018 at 6:46 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 6:32 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: It doesn't follow that because one has presented only testimony that one has no arguments to show why atheism is rational.
True, but then it just becomes "I have proofs" "no you dont" "I analyzed the proofs properly" "No I did" which is childish.
Since the OP simply asked the question "Ybe an atheist," their testimony as to the reasons for their atheism are sufficient, so long as those reasons, if true, are prima facie reasonable. What you and Ybe want to do is turn this thread into an absurd example of moving the goalposts to the question, "What proof and evidence do you have that your beliefs about the evidence are reasonable," the answer to which could fill volumes, but which likely you, he, and everyone else in this thread are already familiar with. In that sense, your complaint and his is simple intellectual dishonesty; the thread has never been a call for an evaluation of evidence, but rather a simple request for the basic foundations underlying lack of belief. No greater elaboration really need be made.
If on the other hand, you want to accuse someone specific of being irrational in their unbelief, I suggest you step right up and take your best shot.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:12 pm
So no one is willing to prove that Atheism is rational. Rather people are just doing testimonies.
Ok...so why not just not participate.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm
(May 30, 2018 at 11:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: So no one is willing to prove that Atheism is rational. Rather people are just doing testimonies.
Ok...so why not just not participate.
Of course it is easy to prove that atheism is the rational choice.
A: a normal snake
B: a talking snake
If you choose A, you're of the rational world.
If you choose B, you're of the irrational religious world.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:42 pm
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(May 30, 2018 at 5:20 pm)Kit Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 5:16 pm)Ybe Wrote: Thank you....
What check box. I don see edit options.
https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php
"Edit Options" on the left under "Your Profile"
Thought I fixed it yesterday, but it seems it keeps wanting to go bonkers on my PC every time I come home after using my phone all day.
Unchecking "Display posts in classic mode" was supposed to fix it, but I guess not.
(May 30, 2018 at 5:20 pm)Kit Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 5:16 pm)Ybe Wrote: Thank you....
What check box. I don see edit options.
https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php
"Edit Options" on the left under "Your Profile"
Thought I fixed it yesterday, but it seems it keeps wanting to go bonkers on my PC every time I come home after using my phone all day.
Unchecking "Display posts in classic mode" was supposed to fix it, but I guess not. Well thanks. I am trying to deal with it in a different way, but it might be annoying.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:46 pm
(May 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm)Kit Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 11:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: So no one is willing to prove that Atheism is rational. Rather people are just doing testimonies.
Ok...so why not just not participate.
Of course it is easy to prove that atheism is the rational choice.
A: a normal snake
B: a talking snake
If you choose A, you're of the rational world.
If you choose B, you're of the irrational religious world.
And there is the serpent nature of the devil by which evil slowly seeps into us and the poison takes our soul.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:47 pm
(May 30, 2018 at 11:46 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm)Kit Wrote: Of course it is easy to prove that atheism is the rational choice.
A: a normal snake
B: a talking snake
If you choose A, you're of the rational world.
If you choose B, you're of the irrational religious world.
And there is the serpent nature of the devil by which evil slowly seeps into us and the poison takes our soul.
Nope, there was only A or B.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:49 pm
That was a pretty clear b.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:50 pm
(May 30, 2018 at 11:49 pm)Khemikal Wrote: That was a pretty clear b.
Well.....true.
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:54 pm
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(May 30, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 3:55 pm)Ybe Wrote: I wouldn't know that. Just posted it to say Ts give lots of reasons and not just a definition as their reason(s). No, you claimed theists had evidence for God, not just "reasons." Faulty arguments are not evidence of anything. Yeah ok, All the ASSERTIONS presented aren't even arguments so all I can say is they are faulty assertions.
My point is that Ts give lots of arguments/evidence, but the only As here have nothing but assertions.
(May 30, 2018 at 5:49 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: (May 30, 2018 at 4:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You guys are asserting you have proof of why it's good to be Atheists (ie. lack of evidence). You haven't actually provided that proof.
Not "good". Simply honest. I don't believe that gods exist, just like I don't believe that leprechauns exist.
Problem with that, but no my Q, is category error,
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RE: Ybe an atheist
May 30, 2018 at 11:57 pm
They don't understand the double-standard. 39 pages...wow.
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