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Recent content by Norrin-6-

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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Speciation is probably the answer you're looking for. But micro and macro refer to scale. I'm no evolutionary biologist though. The two sentences I just gave are the reason I chose it as a comparison to begin with. It's a more apt comparison than what you tried to pass off based on those...
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    I must have paid poor attention to this part. Please substantiate this with something. What is wrong with negation by the way?
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Same difference as microevolution and macroevolution - atheism and agnosticism in your view. It's not impossible to not believe both until further evidence is presented. Simple, really. Not sure what your point is. Can I have some of what you are smoking though? I agree. So what are you...
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    What do people think "theist" means?

    Sorry. There's another reason I said it that has little to do with atheists, it's that 'theist' as a label is just not all that useful to many who would actually fall under that classification. There are so many theisms, e.g., monotheism, polytheism, henotheism, pantheism... it seems that...
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    You are describing two degrees of the same thing here. So then an agnostic is really just a wimpy atheist. Either that or an atheist is simply an arrogant agnostic.
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    Atheism is not a default position

    Sure. I don't take issue with it, just commentating. Tentatively. I think it's a fair reason to stop debating the things that are being debated here. The decade that Metropolis came out?
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    Atheism is not a default position

    You've made it very simple, that much is true. I think the point Bunyip is making is that we're only ever really assigning definitions to the terms we use. We assign definitions based on the information we currently have and we're always making a judgment as to whether the definition fits our...
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    Atheism is not a default position

    It doesn't cease to amaze me when people are so attached to the definitions they've ingrained in themselves that they fail to see that a particular word is given no context most of the time it is used. Knowledge of definitions for words like 'atheist' is primarily expedited through a sort of...
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    Are Jahovah Witness Christian?

    The way I look at it, it hardly matters the differences with mainstream Christianity. If it's close enough in most people's minds, the fact that certain groups may ostracize you is nullified by your continued insistence that you are a Christian.
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    Atheism is not a default position

    And Satan has a lot of control over the music industry, and puts out songs with explicit lyrics. So black is explicitly implicitly theist.:hotsprings:
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    What do people think "theist" means?

    These days it's the term atheists use to lump together all people who believe in a god so that they can deny all in one fell swoop.
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    OK. Just wondering, because I've only ever had conversations about atheism over the internet. Maybe brushed on the subject a few times, but that's about it. I've heard this definition a lot, but I'm just not sure how prominent it is in the real world and outside of religion/atheism specific...
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    Is the WWE violence or a performing arts? What do people think God would think about this?

    It's like Cirque du Soleil.
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Let me rephrase. You would gladly call an agnostic atheist an "atheist" if that was the label a person chose for himself. The rest of my post is totally in line with this.
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    What do people think "atheist" means?

    "I don't believe any god exists. But I'm not claiming that -- I might be wrong." Perfectly respectable position. You must be aware of how biases get in the way when someone has to choose how they identify himself. Generally a person doesn't go around saying he's an "agnostic atheist." While you...
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