I guess you have to ask yourself since to me it is a personal determination. To me it means bizarre, and if you want me to describe that, I will have to pass ;-]
On Jul 30, 12:17 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Heh like I always ask what is weird anyway? > > On 30 July, 17:06, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I thought I liked weird, but I'm beginning to reconsider ;-] > > > On Jul 30, 11:59 am, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Athiesm, Xtianity, screw it all, join the Church of the Subgenius: > > > >http://www.subgenius.com/ > > > > I'm a minister as well. > > > > On Jul 30, 10:53 am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > From my perspective, belief is anchored in a weak foundation. It can > > > > be as unstable as the weather and just as stormy. If one doesn't > > > > believe in what another believes in, it means one of two things, that > > > > one is right and the other wrong (or vice versa), or both are wrong. > > > > This does not create harmony and, in the mind of the fanatic, creates > > > > solid reasons for anger, rebellion and even war. The biased need for > > > > the adherent that their belief is the right one, is fundamental to > > > > their emotional stability, and consequently a cause for them to get > > > > their nickers in a knot if this belief is challenged. > > > > > On Jul 30, 10:46 am, "[email protected]" > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hah Chris yes I agree it seems that many of my like mined compatrats > > > > > get their nickers in a twist and start to loose all concept of > > > > > reason. Why a belife in a creator God should make this so I don't > > > > > know, but it is evidant that it does. > > > > > > On 30 July, 15:21, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The problem mate is that people use the concept of invisible sky > > > > > > fairies to > > > > > > wreak havoc in society, education and government. This, and this > > > > > > alone, is > > > > > > why we atheists must organize, and be active. Otherwise, I could > > > > > > give fook > > > > > > all, and I'd join a random sky fairy party every month, just for the > > > > > > cameraderie. > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, [email protected] < > > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes Ian that does help explain a bit. However it is still not > > > > > > > clear to > > > > > > > me the differance in disbelife and absence of belife, which is why > > > > > > > Iasked for a mundane example. > > > > > > > > Let me try this one out on you then. > > > > > > > > I'm reading my paper keeping myself to myself on my morning > > > > > > > commute, > > > > > > > when I notice a bloke reading over my shoulder, when I turn to > > > > > > > him he > > > > > > > brazenly and cheeckily asks me to flip back to the horoscopes > > > > > > > page so > > > > > > > he can check out how his day will goe. > > > > > > > > I laugh and declare that that I do not accpet his claim that the > > > > > > > movments of other planets and stars has any bearing on how our day > > > > > > > will progress. > > > > > > > > Do I do so from an absence of belife in horoscopes or from a > > > > > > > disbelife > > > > > > > in the concept of them? What in all reality is the differance. > > > > > > > > Also if no agrument sways me to except the idea of a creator God, > > > > > > > but > > > > > > > at the same time I am unwilling to declare that I belive there > > > > > > > exists > > > > > > > no such thing, then am I not agnostic? > > > > > > > > On 30 July, 14:43, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Lee, > > > > > > > > > I'll try my best... > > > > > > > > > The theist makes a positive assertion about the existence of > > > > > > > > God. An > > > > > > > atheist > > > > > > > > is someone who does not accept the theist's claim; thus they > > > > > > > > are an > > > > > > > > "a"-theist. Atheism is therefore only the absence of that > > > > > > > > theistic > > > > > > > belief. > > > > > > > > An atheist does not claim to know that God does not exist, only > > > > > > > > that the > > > > > > > > arguments presented in favour, thus far, are insufficient hold > > > > > > > > such a > > > > > > > > belief. > > > > > > > > > Positively asserting that "there is no God" is further than any > > > > > > > > sensible > > > > > > > > atheist would go. An "in joke" that demonstrates this very well > > > > > > > > is the > > > > > > > > chapter of Richard Dawkin's 'The God Delusion' entitled 'Why > > > > > > > > There Almost > > > > > > > > Certainly Is No God'. I could well believe that the nuances of > > > > > > > > this were > > > > > > > > lost on some people, but there's no semantic word fuckery going > > > > > > > > on; this > > > > > > > is > > > > > > > > really what atheism is. > > > > > > > > > What you continually describe, I think, is some form of > > > > > > > > escalated "strong > > > > > > > > atheism" or obnoxious forum trolling. I've started to wonder > > > > > > > > whether this > > > > > > > > particular kind of atheism only exists on Internet forums to > > > > > > > > antagonise > > > > > > > > theists (see Chazwin's posts). In a sensible discussion I don't > > > > > > > > know any > > > > > > > > atheist who would support such a position, hence I say your > > > > > > > > assertions > > > > > > > about > > > > > > > > atheism lead you only to a strawman. > > > > > > > > > Look at the atheists you chat with here Mind's Eye; do I, > > > > > > > > Chris, Fran, or > > > > > > > > anyone else, claim "there is no God"? > > > > > > > > > Ian- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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