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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 5:40 am
(September 11, 2011 at 2:30 am)aleialoura Wrote: (September 11, 2011 at 1:09 am)LunchBox Wrote: Ah...looks as if I'm an existentialist. That would explain why I could so easily dissect Sartre's writings to my wife for a masters class she was taking, which earned her a respectful jaw-drop from the prof at my response (dictated by her) to the assignment.
I too am an existentialist, but I really do border on relativist. So I guess that makes me a "relative existentialist"?
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 7:47 am
 LunchBox ...missed you intro thread atm.
Really don't worry too much about labels as I really don't fit any of them. meh 
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 10:53 am
(September 11, 2011 at 7:47 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: LunchBox ...missed you intro thread atm.
Really don't worry too much about labels as I really don't fit any of them. meh
Yeah...I know...but being a science-nerd, I feel compelled to quantify everything.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm
(September 11, 2011 at 10:53 am)LunchBox Wrote: (September 11, 2011 at 7:47 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: LunchBox ...missed you intro thread atm.
Really don't worry too much about labels as I really don't fit any of them. meh
Yeah...I know...but being a science-nerd, I feel compelled to quantify everything.
Welcome, Lunchbox. I don't know what kind of atheist you are, but your timing is perfect, so I'd love ya to chime in on in the Atheism is not a worldview thread.
Check it out. If you add your bit about knowing you can't be wrong (that you posted earlier) to the quantifying bit and the understanding that the labels are inadequate, you just hit for the cycle on all three of the worldviews.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 1:06 pm
(September 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm)Fred Wrote: Welcome, Lunchbox. I don't know what kind of atheist you are, but your timing is perfect, so I'd love ya to chime in on in the Atheism is not a worldview thread.
Check it out. If you add your bit about knowing you can't be wrong (that you posted earlier) to the quantifying bit and the understanding that the labels are inadequate, you just hit for the cycle on all three of the worldviews.
Three world views? LMAO. That's preposterous beyond belief, but coming from you, I am just glad it was coherent enough for me to remotely understand.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm
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If you press him hard to explain himself it won't be so coherent anymore.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 3:33 pm
(September 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If you press him hard to explain himself it won't be so coherent anymore.
Coherent anymore? He isn't very coherent as it is.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 8:12 pm
(September 11, 2011 at 1:06 pm)aleialoura Wrote: (September 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm)Fred Wrote: Welcome, Lunchbox. I don't know what kind of atheist you are, but your timing is perfect, so I'd love ya to chime in on in the Atheism is not a worldview thread.
Check it out. If you add your bit about knowing you can't be wrong (that you posted earlier) to the quantifying bit and the understanding that the labels are inadequate, you just hit for the cycle on all three of the worldviews.
Three world views? LMAO. That's preposterous beyond belief, but coming from you, I am just glad it was coherent enough for me to remotely understand.
Heh. We're making some kind of progress then. May I ask what is so preposterous about premodern, modern, and postmodern? At bottom, that's all were talking about here, and lunchbox hit all three. It's not hard to do, and we mix and match all the time.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 11, 2011 at 8:44 pm
(September 11, 2011 at 8:12 pm)Fred Wrote: (September 11, 2011 at 1:06 pm)aleialoura Wrote: (September 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm)Fred Wrote: Welcome, Lunchbox. I don't know what kind of atheist you are, but your timing is perfect, so I'd love ya to chime in on in the Atheism is not a worldview thread.
Check it out. If you add your bit about knowing you can't be wrong (that you posted earlier) to the quantifying bit and the understanding that the labels are inadequate, you just hit for the cycle on all three of the worldviews.
Three world views? LMAO. That's preposterous beyond belief, but coming from you, I am just glad it was coherent enough for me to remotely understand.
Heh. We're making some kind of progress then. May I ask what is so preposterous about premodern, modern, and postmodern? At bottom, that's all were talking about here, and lunchbox hit all three. It's not hard to do, and we mix and match all the time.
I have no idea wat I've done. I'll look for the thread a little later.
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RE: What Kind of Atheist Am I?
September 12, 2011 at 8:51 am
(September 11, 2011 at 1:09 am)LunchBox Wrote: Ah...looks as if I'm an existentialist. That would explain why I could so easily dissect Sartre's writings to my wife for a masters class she was taking, which earned her a respectful jaw-drop from the prof at my response (dictated by her) to the assignment.
I found that chart of no use at all, so I wouldn't rely on it too much.
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