I am not trying to be difficult or obtuse with you but both the positions of atheism and theism are very perplexing to me. To tell you the truth I am an agnostic who has some very, very, very strong apatheist tendencies. The whole concept of god is irrelevant to me as well as the debate whether...
It's not the same. Green men for Mars is defined. We know what green is, we know what the term "men" means and we know about Mars. The concept of god is not defined. It is an unknowable, it is X. I discuss X unless I know the other variables and possibilities regarding X. Since X in unknowable...
I am just curious. Isn't any reason why you don't believe in gods? And why do you go on the internet to defend and advocate for atheism if it isn't a position that people take?
There are no either/or proposition when you deal with unknowable or fuzzy concepts. I think both theists and atheists are wrong in thinking there can be. It is like we are dealing with the proposition X and the possibilities are one either agrees with X exist or one does not. We don't even know...
There are other ways to go about this rather than acting like Officer Macho ****** threatening that child and then calling him "boy". When I heard that, I cringed. He deserves no medals or accolades for this.
Children can and do get on their parent's nerves and it is normal for a parent to get angry or disgusted and not to want to be around them. Usually for me when I get that way it "Go to your room and I don't want to hear a peep until I call you". It is normal.
Meeting them for the millionth time would be boring. And what would we have to talk about after the 10,000th time? And since the would be happy all the time like a bunch of zombies on Zoloft, who would care? You are describing an eternal mental institution with bunch of drugged out zombies...