RestlessSoul
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I haven’t read, it no. But good luck to him. It’s not easy for authors to make money.
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I don't believe in atheism...
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I haven’t read, it no. But good luck to him. It’s not easy for authors to make money.
well, that's what any deity worth its salt would do!
Viker
Häxan
Agreed. I'm a beligirent uber-non-atheist myself. I'm convinced it's some conspiracy at work.
Only panentheism exists.
No, sir, never heard of them. By description they remind me of some of our counterculture groups such as goths or satanists, always going against the norm. I'm not speaking about religious satanists who I consider a different group from the counter culture satanists. The wickipedia compares them to the clowns of the Lakota (though I've no idea what a Lakota clown would be), but they sound more counterculture than humorous. I suspect they are stylish groups, perhaps like our beatniks or freaks or ravers or heavy metal fans etc.
As do I. Humanity is very slowly outgrowing the image of God as a 'sky daddy' ever ready to spank (smite) those who don't do what they're told.
The believer joke: Do you believe you exist? If so, then God exists because all including you are God (but don't know it). Theology is a lot of fun, isn't it?
Yazata
Active Member
From the point of view of classical formal logic, being a-atheist would seem to be the same thing as being theist.
If we interpret the 'a-' in 'atheist' to mean 'not', then logically an atheist would be ~theist
You seem to be saying that you are not an atheist, which would seem to translate to ~(~theist) in formal logic symbolism.
By double-negation elimination (one of the classical rules of inference):
If ~(~P) then P
So if ~(~theist) then theist
I don't think that in real life what you said necessarily implies that. It could be an interesting philosophical question why it might not, what it might suggest about the meaning of 'atheist' and even what that might start to tell us about the applicability of formal logic to real life (law of the excluded middle, linguistic ambiguity, multiple possibilities etc.).
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Another analogy might to say that, if theism is a missile, then atheism might be the anti-missile missile. It wouldn't exist if the first missile never existed. An a-atheist might be comparable to an anti-anti-missile missile missile (which I've heard is a thing).
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Don't worry. Atheism dosent believe in you anyways.
Come to think of it, it dosent believe in me either!
Since you call yourself an atheist, and you don't believe in atheists, it makes you a contradiction in terms.
Well, atheists demonstrably exist. It's just atheism I've been unable to find.
Must be sort of like onanism. You can easily spot the practitioner (if they're not careful about privacy), but the -ism itself remains kind of difficult to find.
Yes it is.
Whenever someone says (about anything), “I don’t believe it”, that in itself is a belief statement.
Viker
Häxan
Plato
And all minds melt away, like strawberry ice cream in early July.
Oh grief, I hate to see strawberry ice cream melting!
It’s gotta be eaten!
Yor from Can-tucky, huh? Shucks, my origin’s from right across the River, in Ohio.
Nope. That's a disbelief statement.
Suitable definitions
Belief : trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something).
Disbelief : lack of faith.
How is lack of faith to become faith?
Exactly! And not collecting stamps is a hobby, right?
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I know what it is with you!
You just don't like the muck they serve out in atheist club bars!
I would try their flat mild but they don't let Deists in... you ever tustled with an atheist bouncer? That's a doorman, LnM, not a big lady.
You know if you get me started on beer I'm going to head off on a tangent, right? A tasty, tasty tangent...
I had a nice sour tonite actually...mango coconut cinnamon and both brown and milk sugar. Nice share can.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
You see?
Could you have got that in an atheist club bar? Never! Dreadful places.
It's enough to convert a bloke to the Rose 'n' Crown.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I believe you!