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View Poll Results: What do you identify yourself as? | |||
Atheist/Skeptic/Agnostic | 151 | 70.89% | |
Catholic | 21 | 9.86% | |
Protestant | 24 | 11.27% | |
Jewish | 5 | 2.35% | |
Muslim | 2 | 0.94% | |
Philisophy (Such as Buddhism) | 10 | 4.69% | |
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2012-06-08, 03:05 AM | [Ignore Me] #691 | |||
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Because the latter is what has been suggested and is what sparked this off-topic discussion. Understanding it better to me doesn't mean I get more sympathetic, I just understand how it came to this. It can have quite the opposite effect if anything, as it'd affect my opinion in a negative way regarding those around and 'supporting' such people. >.> |
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2012-06-09, 06:18 PM | [Ignore Me] #693 | ||
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That's been explained a few times.
Edit :: I take that back. I thought I explained that. Honestly, I consider Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics different levels of the same thing. Also, because "Christians" group themselves together all the time, while all being very different. Penn Jillette made a video about this. Skip to 4:50 for what I'm talking about.
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2012-06-09, 11:07 PM | [Ignore Me] #696 | ||
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Duke, you keep refusing to adhere to your own fucking directions. It's getting ridiculous.
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2012-06-09, 11:28 PM | [Ignore Me] #698 | ||
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You didn't even read my post. You just watched the video completely out of context.
Also, you can't CHANGE logic. That's just... illogical.
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2012-06-09, 11:28 PM | [Ignore Me] #699 | |||
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Trying to identify yourself by clinging to certain beliefs whether it be religious or a favorite team is part of your problem. The sooner you stop individualizing yourself the sooner you will become truly free.
Also I find it interesting that you would give yourself up in hopes to save us, are you truly better than god? Because he certainly can't do that. |
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2012-06-10, 03:30 AM | [Ignore Me] #701 | |||||||||
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You WANT people to believe something while not giving anyone any good reason to. You don't WANT to comprehend that because you don't WANT to admit you might be wrong. It is too much for YOU to accept that someone may just not WANT to accept something WITHOUT GOOD REASON, unlike YOU.
NONE OF US DO. Get that through your thick skull.
You don't want to see this though as you keep showing your ignorance and prejudices about why we won't accept this: you say we're scared. We're not scared, we think your reasons to believe are invalid and in many cases (all really) farfetched or stupid assumptions based on hearsay from people without any education or understanding of even the basics of the universe or natural laws whatsoever. So no, we don't HAVE ANY REASON to believe you. That has nothing to do with being scared. Seems to me that just because YOU are scared, you believe this must be other people's motivations as well. Very annoying to debate with someone like you who refuses to understand anyone else and every time ignores any reasoning provided. Look Duke, it's very simple: you want to tell us unicorns exist, fine, but we won't believe you until you bring actual evidence of an unicorn. Any unicorn. Instead you ask us to disprove unicorns exist, to which all we can say is: there's no evidence there are unicorns and you're not an acknowledged authority on unicorn existence. So we have absolutely no reason to believe you. YOU refuse to accept this because you are willing enough to believe someone who told you there's unicorns. Great for you and you keep believing there's unicorns because you WANT to believe and like fictional horsies, but that doesn't work for us.
You don't even want to acknowledge that we've gone through about a hundred hypothetical assumptions your religion is true and showed these assumptions couldn't be made or in most cases disagreed with eachother and reality. So again, we've "attempted" but couldn't find any reason to believe you. Quite the contrary, we found many pieces of evidence that your religion is a human construct, extremely flawed and inconsistent with evidence and pressed by zealotty people who are scared of existence. |
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2012-06-10, 09:44 AM | [Ignore Me] #702 | |||
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Can you read? Its like you post something. We explain why we think what you posted is wrong. And your response? Post the same thing again. I cant be arsed going back through this thread to count the number of times we have explained that we don't know everything. I'm going to make this very clear one final time: SKEPTICS DONT CLAIM TO HAVE THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING! SKEPTICS DONT CLAIM TO HAVE THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING! SKEPTICS DONT CLAIM TO HAVE THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING! SKEPTICS DONT CLAIM TO HAVE THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING! SKEPTICS DONT CLAIM TO HAVE THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING! If you cant get this incredibly simple piece of information into your brain now then you never will be able to. For the love of God who must be scratching his eyes out and how retarded some of his children are that cant even read, stop saying we think we have the answer to everything. We do not think this! The only people who claim to have the answer to everything are certain religious people who think science explains some stuff, for everything science doesn't explain, the explanation is God. And myself and several others have already explained why this is not a logically valid position to take. Edit: Sorry about this outburst, I probably should have handled that better. But I just wish Duke would stop lying about this. After the amount of times we have explained there is no way he can seriously still think this Last edited by MadPenguin; 2012-06-13 at 11:22 AM. |
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2012-06-11, 09:04 AM | [Ignore Me] #704 | |||
Personally I don't like using any of those words specifically because there are a variety of interpretations of them which exist. You clearly have a definition of agnostic which is entirely different from mine, for example. |
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2012-06-11, 11:33 AM | [Ignore Me] #705 | ||
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An agnostic believes that there is a supernatural force that is ultimately responsible for existence, but believes that such a thing is unknowable. They can also take it a step further and claim that nothing is completely knowable, a distinction I find intellectually boring.
Regardless, agnostics believe in a god or godlike entity that is simply unfathomable by our limited human brains. That's the definition of the word. Atheists only believe what there is evidence to support. That precludes belief in the existence of gods or the supernatural. Now, there is 'strong' and 'weak' atheism, granted, but there is still a wide gulf between agnostics and atheists. It's like, if you were an agnost when it came to unicorns, you would tell me that yes, unicorns OF A SORT exist, but are too advanced to be knowable. I however would say that unless evidence in support of unicorns is presented, I cannot believe in them, full stop. Those are two very different stances on the subject. Two different sides of a debate, in fact. |
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