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@Reincarnate: So, from this view on the word "atheist", an atheist doesn't believe that no gods exist, either then? So if you ask an atheist, "does god exists?" he will answer something like "I dunno"? If that really is how you and Mollocephalus view the word "atheist", I can take back all of what I said about the word itself.
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Any educated atheist would say something like "I don't believe so, no" or "there's no evidence pointing towards the existence of one."
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I can agree with such a definition. Phew. :3
I always thought of an atheist as someone who'd firmly answer "No", additionally adding something like "because believing in a god is ridiculous". Guess that way of looking at it is uniformally viewed as wrong by the majority of the people in this thread, so I'll adapt my vocabulary. though, Choofers, the way you put it... it's still very edgy and can be considered a belief anyway, lmao, but w/e |
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Again, it would be like if I held up a locked safe and asked you to tell me what object you believed was inside. You don't know either way -- but you're not going to believe that something's inside until you have evidence to suggest it, but at the same time, you aren't going to rule it out. I'm sure you'd be pissed off, too, if I said that the contents of this safe prove that I can deprive you of your right to eat food, and if I catch you eating food, I can stone you to death. Even though neither one of us can open the safe, I claim to know what's inside it because I have faith. Quote:
But this is not to give you a false impression: I think God is possible just as much as I think Zeus is possible, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or peanut butter demons, or ghosts, or a universe where Nickelback is actually respected, etc. |
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@Choofers: "I don't believe X" can be interpreted as "I believe in not X" (linguistically speaking; logically speaking this is not always right), or be translated to an "I believe in Y" (where Y is something like "anything but X") and mean the same thing; basically, an actual disbelief is a version of a belief. But then that's interpretation and I'm fine with you thinking otherwise. It's one of those things about definitions that don't really matter, so, yeah. *shrug* |
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You're just bending over backwards at this point to connect the word "belief" to it in any way you can, lol. EDIT: I am an agnostic atheist. |
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wow jtrix you're so determined as fuck to prove someone wrong or to change there mind. what are you trying to validate
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However, we have a list of possibilities what could be in the safe: a cloth, a paper, a bee's nest, nothing, and so on. We can label these options a_1, a_2, a_3... Since you cannot look into the safe, you don't truly believe in any one specific a_i. However, we must acknowledge that at least one of the a_j must be correct: either one of the options is in it, or there simply is nothing in it. So, even without being able to look into the safe, you can believe something about the contents: you believe that "a_1, a_2, a_3, ... a_x is in it, or that nothing is in it" (by definition). This belief about the safe is based on the the common knowledge (belief?!?!) that a safe is capable of containing something in general. Again, the difference between disbelief and belief are (almost) non-existent. Another example: I give you any random whole number. Do you believe it is even? Do you believe it is odd? You can't know until you look, so don't believe in any one specific (even/odd). However, you do believe that it either even or odd. So even without strict knowledge, it is possible to 100% believe. |
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