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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by spy66
Try this on....
Originally posted by Welfhard
reply to post by spellbound
You consider nothing something, in regard to spirituality. If you do, then yes, everyone believes in "something", cept that's the most pointless, and meaningless statement ever.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
reply to post by spy66
"4 is also intelligent because it will have a function after it passes through equality. 4 will react to the matter and energy in the time space dimension it just entered."
You're just making this stuff up as you go along, aren't you? Too much time on your hands?
Originally posted by spellbound
Not false. If you believe in nothing, you are in the act of believing.
A doctorate in Philosophy will do it every time.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
reply to post by spy66
"4 is also intelligent because it will have a function after it passes through equality. 4 will react to the matter and energy in the time space dimension it just entered."
You're just making this stuff up as you go along, aren't you? Too much time on your hands?
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
reply to post by spy66
You could have just said, "Yes". It would have been faster.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
reply to post by spy66
I'm not interested in your word soup posts, as far as debating the idiosyncratic definitions you revel in. Now if you revert to a standard lexicon and give up the imaginary words, there's a possibility. Otherwise, you are just entertainment.
Originally posted by spy66
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
reply to post by spy66
I'm not interested in your word soup posts, as far as debating the idiosyncratic definitions you revel in. Now if you revert to a standard lexicon and give up the imaginary words, there's a possibility. Otherwise, you are just entertainment.
Well as long as you read i am happy. The rest is your problem.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Committed atheists are very religious, which is why they are committed atheists. It is a religion. Secular humanism claims to be the religion of atheism and one of its tenets is that "matter is self-existant, not created."
This means that atheists really believe that matter is God, that matter itself has godlike properties and qualities of being self-existant, eternal, and able to produce life spontaneously. These are all attributes of God.
So they do believe in God. They just give him another name -- DIRT.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
Sorry, but that makes no sense at all. Atheists are without theism by definition. Theists are scared of a mindset that doesn't require a god. It threatens them because they might begin to question their fantasies, and that can't be allowed.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
Sorry, but that makes no sense at all. Atheists are without theism by definition. Theists are scared of a mindset that doesn't require a god. It threatens them because they might begin to question their fantasies, and that can't be allowed.
No, those are the agnostics. They have no theism because they just don't know and admit it.
Atheists have a dogma, and they are prepared to argue logically for their beliefs. So they are committed theists.
They believe DIRT has godlike powers, and it is stated as such in the Humanist Manifesto, the official creed of atheists.
[edit on 12-4-2009 by Salt of the Earth]
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
Okay, so you make up your own definitions of words. ATS-speak. That's nice. However, I think you'll find that atheists are far too independent to be herded into one particular dogma. Unlike theist sheep, who follow orders very meekly.