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originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
If you can't define that term you so passionately argue about, you should not deal in that kind of discussions.
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
For the simple reason that you don't know what that term, "god" or "God" means, other than you trying to refute or deny what you don't even can define by yourself.
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
If you don't know what a table is, don't tell others what it is not.
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
Get it?
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
Nevertheless...what you FAIL to do is to define what you think the term "god" or "God" means in YOUR very own terms.
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
You just don't do that. You come up with all kinds of reasonable sounding replys to posts, but I miss the one and only point you are supposed to make: What does the term God mean in YOUR definition?
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
1.) I don't deal in defining the term "god" or "God" myself, because.....(insert the reasons why)...which you already did. But that does not count as a valid definition, for the reasons I already elaborated on.
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
2.) Here is my ultra-short, personal definition of what that term means....(a defintion is given)...(I still wait for that one)...
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
3.) I refuse to do so, because I prefer to talk about something I have no idea of what it means, but some do and I quote them, that's what I'm best suited for. I'm a moron, because I talk about things I have no knowlegde of
originally posted by: Willingly
a reply to: Ghost147
I'm a moron, because I talk about things I have no knowlegde of
originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: Ghost147
Isn't an Intellegent Psycopath actually a Sociopath?
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: Ghost147
They try dialectal behaviour therapy but of coarse a psychopath would never go through with it.
originally posted by: Ghost147
originally posted by: namelesss
No, I am not.
To positively offer an assertion, such as that there is no God, in a philosophic discussion, requires positive philosophic, logical, scientific, evidentiary support!
When did I directly claim that "there is no god"?
originally posted by: namelesss
That there is none, nor can there be, such positive assertion must be the symptom of a 'belief'.
originally posted by: namelesss
But in this case it must, because the reason that one cannot 'prove' that something does not exist, is because everything exists! *__-
originally posted by: namelesss
Again, I was careful to point out "The sect of atheists who assert that "there is no God"", just in case there is something of which I am unaware....
originally posted by: namelesss
An atheist doesn't need to directly state "there is no god".
Hence my "The sect of atheists who assert that "there is no God""!
originally posted by: namelesss
If there is an 'atheist' who says; I have no idea, and if new info arrives, I will revise my position of ignorance (the only honest intellectual position), then he is, I thought, an agnostic!
originally posted by: namelesss
I did not say 'all' (but I have yet to find an honest atheist to admit the possibility of a God, but that would be an 'agnostic', as I said)
originally posted by: namelesss
, if you read what I wrote rather than being offended by what you imagine as a 'threat' to your 'beliefs/ego'.
Perhaps, before going on, you might more carefully read my post!
originally posted by: namelesss
If you do not have an 'belief' or Knowledge, and are open to the possibility, then you are, as far as I can see, an agnostic!
originally posted by: namelesss
I hear people who call themselves atheists denying God all over the place.
If the shoe doesn't fit you, what's the beef?
I offered a very specific 'shoe', if you read what I wrote.
originally posted by: Ghost147
originally posted by: namelesss
I did not say 'all' (but I have yet to find an honest atheist to admit the possibility of a God, but that would be an 'agnostic', as I said)
I'm sure if you ever have met these atheists you would simply and incorrectly labeled them as agnostic. Saying "there is a possibility" is not an agnostic position. It's not the acknowledgment that there is a god, It's just acknowledging that anything is possible.
If a person doesn't hold any beliefs in gods, then they are an atheist.
There is a spectrum in both Theism and Agnosticism you seem to be actively ignoring.
originally posted by: namelesss
, if you read what I wrote rather than being offended by what you imagine as a 'threat' to your 'beliefs/ego'.
Perhaps, before going on, you might more carefully read my post!
originally posted by: namelesss
It is the acknowledgement that a GOD is "possible"!
That 'God' is included in the all inclusive "anything".
What are you afraid of?
It seems so simple when there is nothing to defend...
originally posted by: namelesss
That is quite an assertion, as I host no 'beliefs', yet I am not an 'atheist'.
Your assertion would make all Enlightened mystics 'atheists'.
And that is not the case.
originally posted by: namelesss
I don't see a 'spectrum', I see a bunch of 'beliefs' wriggling and contorting to maintain philosophically and scientifically untenable positions!
originally posted by: namelesss
Then I won't waste your time with any more of my ignorance.
Have a nice day.
originally posted by: Ghost147
originally posted by: namelesss
It is the acknowledgement that a GOD is "possible"!
That 'God' is included in the all inclusive "anything".
What are you afraid of?
It seems so simple when there is nothing to defend...
You are literally stating the exact same thing I just stated.
What the hell is your Point? Are you assuming that "Possibility" equals Agnosticism? Because it doesn't. I Just proved it doesn't by providing you a plethora of definitions from varying sources that all show the same defining trait of Agnosticism "Not Known and Not Knowable". "Possibility" has nothing to do with it.
Please reread the cited information, or find your own to support your claims like I have.
originally posted by: namelesss
That is quite an assertion, as I host no 'beliefs', yet I am not an 'atheist'.
Your assertion would make all Enlightened mystics 'atheists'.
And that is not the case.
No... It isn't "quite an assertion", I literally just proved it by providing you cited information.
Feel free to source your claims if you feel that isn't accurate.
If you don't have any beliefs in god, you're an atheist.
originally posted by: namelesss
I don't see a 'spectrum', I see a bunch of 'beliefs' wriggling and contorting to maintain philosophically and scientifically untenable positions!
Then you are rejecting reality.
I just proved how there is a spectrum by citing my information. Once again, If you simply want to ignore that, you might as well just step up and say "Sorry, I prefer to deny reality"
originally posted by: namelesss
Then I won't waste your time with any more of my ignorance.
Have a nice day.
Fantastic! Enjoy your delusion.
originally posted by: namelesss
So where's the beef?
originally posted by: namelesss
Really?
You are making an absurd assertion and you find some websites to agree therefore you have 'proven' something?
originally posted by: namelesss
Emotional rather than intellectual.
originally posted by: namelesss
My 'claims' are fully supported by logic.
originally posted by: namelesss
Perhaps/possibly because you have some 'beliefs' to defend/justify?
To argue against the 'obvious' takes a fool, or a genius.
Or a 'believer'.
originally posted by: namelesss
Logic and Knowledge/experience!
originally posted by: namelesss
Yeah, I heard that already.
And my presence is all the evidence to refute your claim.
originally posted by: namelesss
I don' need no steenkin' website... *__- all I need is to step up!
originally posted by: namelesss
Thank you, dear!
Have a nice night.