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Are atheists religious?
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 (October 26, 2011 at 11:01 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I wonder if they deliver? I'm sure they do. I bet they also de kidneys, hearts and brains as well.
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.'
 (October 17, 2011 at 3:59 pm)John Jones Wrote: You want proof? Here's proof: What material, rational, property distinguishes a TV from the carpet it stands on? I can tell you, because I'm not a religious atheist animist - NONE. Well he did get at least one thing right. To quote Democritus: "By convention there are sweet and bitter, hot and cold, by convention there is color; but in truth there are atoms and the void." There is no fundamental distinction amongst the pleroma of existence — distinctions between this and that, between the table and the floor — these exist only in the mind. Out there is only the continuous fabric of being. The Buddhists have a term, "Shì shì wú ài," which translates as "between each thing/event and another thing/event there is no thing". I paraphrase it thusly, "being is seamless from end to end." They likely layer additional meanings onto it, which I won't go into, but the core observation is sound: distinctions belong to the ego, not to the underlying reality. Anyway. Seeing that he got every thing else wrong, it's hardly worth noting. However, I do note these same "arguments" — if one chooses to dignify them thus — they seem to appear everywhere at once, like mushrooms sprouting across the land. I don't know whether these are multiple posters or very industrious lone individuals, but they seem to explode on the forums all at once. One has to wonder if perhaps there is a factory, somewhere, maybe disguised like they do marijuana fields, where they take creationists and fundamentalists and shove a tube up their ass, whereupon they repeatedly shart out effluvium and bottle it, whence forth they forward it to a lab for analysis, to see if it has the right properties, whether it is suitable bollocks for spreading, and, if so, they culture and grow it until they have enough to send it on for distribution. We're likely seeing only the end product of a vast chain of events. ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)
There just may be a distinction between the floor and the table. Hopefully this "possibility" doesn't burst any bubbles you've blown for yourself.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
 (October 27, 2011 at 7:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(October 26, 2011 at 11:01 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I wonder if they deliver? If I don't get them in 30 minutes or less, I want them for free.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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