https://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/04/17/national-ask-an-atheist-day-this-thursday/
Feel free to ask. Fellow atheists should feel free to answer.
Feel free to ask. Fellow atheists should feel free to answer.
Today is National Ask an Atheist Day
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After reading some of the questions there, it's obvious which poster you are One Brow. Kudos on the consistent approach whether it be there or on JazzFanz.
What did you do to celebrate International Louie Louie Day last week?
https://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?15803-Happy-International-LOUIE-LOUIE-Day!!!!
Oh, and why did you remove that quote (from the bible I think, OT) that you had as your signature "Come, let us reason together" or something like that?
But the first question is the one I'm most curious about. And don't feel you have to speak for all atheists, just yourself. I promise I won't generalize.
https://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?15803-Happy-International-LOUIE-LOUIE-Day!!!!
Oh, and why did you remove that quote (from the bible I think, OT) that you had as your signature "Come, let us reason together" or something like that?
But the first question is the one I'm most curious about. And don't feel you have to speak for all atheists, just yourself. I promise I won't generalize.
The Black Swordsman
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Theism is the recognition that no matter what something unexplainable has to be used to explain reality at some point. If you think it is a single thing outside of this universe then you believe in monotheism. If you think the unexplainable thing is the universe then that is pantheism. What makes what you believe different from pantheism?
How do you feel about atheism (not irreligion) being on the decline. https://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/biol...jan-02-2011-jonathan-leake-full-draft-version
What you think about this quotes "atheism is the most daring of dogma's for it asserts a universal negative" and "[To an atheist] the universe is the most exquisite masterpiece ever constructed by nobody"
What you think about this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM
What positive evidence do you have to support your nonbelief in god?
How do you feel about atheism (not irreligion) being on the decline. https://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/biol...jan-02-2011-jonathan-leake-full-draft-version
What you think about this quotes "atheism is the most daring of dogma's for it asserts a universal negative" and "[To an atheist] the universe is the most exquisite masterpiece ever constructed by nobody"
What you think about this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM
What positive evidence do you have to support your nonbelief in god?
I on't think I've ever posted a comment on Friendly Atheist. If I did, I would have registered as One Brow, since I've been using that pseudonym for 30 years.
I read your thread.
I don't recall. Space reasons? Only being allowed one line? I still have it on my blog and as an email signature. I'll try adding it again.
I didn't realize you were not human.
I've never heard that definition, and I don't accept it. Munchausen's Trilemma is not a proof of the divine.
Some atheists are pantheists. I'm a naturalist. A difference is that I think whatever can't be explained is still composed of the natural, and able to be studied naturally.
Its not an issue for me.
I don't see how it's more daring to say that no evidence is evidence of nothing, as opposed to saying no evidence is evidence of some specific thing. I don't see the universe as a masterpiece, that would require it be designed in some way, and the universe does not look designed to me.
It the point that many atheists are jerks? I agree, many are.
The same positive evidence you have for your non-belief in fairies and unicorns.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism is an epistemological position. It states that conclusive knowledge about the existence of a cosmological creative force is impossible (at least for the moment). An agnostic can believe in a god because of other reasons, but he would not consider his belief a result of his knowledge.
As an atheist, I find agnosticism to be somewhat useless. It is not like the existence of a god has a 50/50 chance. The whole concept is utterly meaningless without context. Which god are we talking about? The ones I looked into are almost certainly false. I have a plethora of reasons why this or that religion is man-made, and the answer to all of those concerns end up being either "you got to have faith" or "you must understand it through my unique interpretation". And considering there are countless gods in countless religions, and that the chance that any of them is in any way true is close to zero, it is perfectly reasonable to ignore the hypothesis all together.
In other words, the default position is that of a natural universe inhabited by natural beings operating within the natural laws of that reality. Any claim to the contrary must be evaluated on its own merits. And I've yet to find one with enough merits to warrant serious consideration.
I didn't realize you were not human.
Of course not, you're an atheist. You wouldn't know a goddess if she bit you.
One comment totally reminded of you where it broke up another comment and responded to it piece by piece.
I would say many agnostics are also atheists. If you take the position that it is impossible to know if a God does or not exist (one sort of agnosticism), they you don't believe in a God (atheism). Probably both of those statements apply to me. I agree it's impossible to know if the God of classical Deism exists or not, for example, but I don't believe in that God any more than any other. Then, choosing/acknowledging a label becomes a matter of taste and presentation.
Probably some agnostics would say they have some level of belief, but not enough to say they really accept the existence of a God/gods. I would not be agnostic in that sense. I don't have a partial or tentative belief.
What makes you think I haven't been bitten by one before?
It's a common practice on boards with skeptics. We tend to be reductionistic, although not all of us are, and not all atheists are skeptics.
I would say a lot of the same things Siro and One Brow said on this.
For a long time I would only say that I was not religious. Not sure how people interpret that, but I pretty much refused to get into it beyond that. When I was in my teens I was kind of what I would describe as a militant atheist always trying to challenge people's religious beliefs. When my grandmother passed away I wondered if I would have gained any satisfaction by shattering her LDS faith, or if she would have gained anything from it. I decided it wasn't really important to challenge people's faith or convince anyone I was right. That's when I stopped calling myself an atheist and just said I wasn't religious. But, I just don't feel like that's completely honest. I am an atheist. I don't always like using the unicorn or flying spaghetti monster comparisons, but essentially I consider those to have as much believability as a supernatural intelligent creator being. To me that's atheism and to call myself something else is not the whole truth.
Why won't God talk to me?
He doesn't exist.
Why do you call God He? tehehehehe!
Because the people who capitalize the word god understand it as such.
Beantown
Well-Known Member
Holy **** you are old.