― Brent Colville (A Bettik), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)
I TRIED SO HARDAND GOT SO FARBUT IN THE ENDIT DOESNT EVEN MATTER
― webber (webber), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lola Falana, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)
By the technical def.: someone who is without godor by the popular def.: someone who believes there is no god
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― nevermind^, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― nevermind^, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)
i disagree about the last point - just because religion has been misused doesn't make it evil. i imagine every good or even neutral thing has been abused to make it harmful. religion, when misused, has done me a lot of harm, but it has also helped me a lot when i eventually found a place that suited me - it's given me a community, something like a second family, as well as a place to ask questions etc.
― rebekah (rebekah), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)
No. It's not having an opinion.For example, if I asked you "Do you believe that Joe Blow was the greatest bowler ever?", you would not have a belief either way since you have no information to go on.
Thus, this technical definition of atheism is synonymous w/agnosticism. Agnosticism was a term created by Aldous Huxley, after the original meaning of atheism was perverted, both by Xians and those who believed there is no god.
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― webber (webber), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)
and i dont think that belief in any god or gods makes a person stupid. in fact, my fiancée believes in god.
― Brent Colville (A Bettik), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)
my girlfriend told me about that crap a while back. the way they keep track of how long its been since those people were killed is sickening.
i was working third shift at waffle house one night a while back when a large van pulled in and unloaded quite a few people. when they came in one of them started handing out fliers for this revival thing. he was very excited about some guy that was gonna be preaching there. "you should come down and hear Rev. Blobbity Blah, he's gonna be talkin' bout how queers are goin ta hell. aint nuttin good bout a queer." when i told him i didnt believe in god and that i had a few bisexual friends he told me i was going to hell too. my friend tim happened to be hanging out drinking coffee at this time and also happens to be one of those friends. tim is a unique person. he has read and reread the bible and considers himself a christian. i guess you could say he's formed his own beliefs. when this guy handed tim a flier, tim's response was something like "i dont want this crap." they sat there and argued and threw scripture at each other for like two hours. i guess it never occured to the guy that someone could believe in the bible and be bisexual, because he seemed very surprised when tim threw his arm around him and said "well you know what, i am one." it was really funny.
― Brent Colville (A Bettik), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)
Nah. If I say "i'm a person without shoobdibbles" does that mean i'm admitting shoobdibbles exist?Or, I could say "i'm a person w/o a belief in god". By your reasoning, the only thing I'm assuming exists is that people believe in god.
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― Brent (A Bettik), Thursday, 13 March 2003 06:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― Brent (A Bettik), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Friday, 14 March 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Saturday, 15 March 2003 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― rebekah (rebekah), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)