Random links/videos/tweets/etc.

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

TIL muslims fire a fucking cannon everyday during Ramadan

[filler]

refusing to use the word "believe" when discussing your beliefs and thinking you're really smart and above other people because of it 

[Uncle]

refusing to use the word "believe" when discussing your beliefs and thinking you're really smart and above other people because of it 

baby I don't think, what is that, that's ghetto, I don't think, I know

[Uncle]

   

[benji]

"I don't believe anything" is just a  way to claim everything you say is true. NDT would probably assert that all the times in the past when he said Pluto was a planet it was a true statement then, which would imply that he believes knows that reality doesn't exist outside of what is asserted about it. Which as a corollary means science literally has no basis, especially whatever NDT has ever published or tries to assert about it.

I didn't watch the video but from the chapter titles it looks like he heads in the same direction.

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@phoule76
3 hours ago
unbelievable

[Uncle]

"I don't believe anything" is just a  way to claim everything you say is true. NDT would probably assert that all the times in the past when he said Pluto was a planet it was a true statement then, which would imply that he believes knows that reality doesn't exist outside of what is asserted about it. Which as a corollary means science literally has no basis, especially whatever NDT has ever published or tries to assert about it.

I didn't watch the video but from the chapter titles it looks like he heads in the same direction.

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@phoule76
3 hours ago
unbelievable

now: how do you feel about the widely-stated claim that atheism does not even approach the same category of discussion as religion, because it's not a belief, it's an absence of belief, and that atheism makes no claims whatsoever

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to say you're an atheist implies an active belief that its ontology fits reality best, else you'd have to say inconsistent things like "I'm an atheist, but really I think Judaism describes the state of the universe more accurately"

[benji]

It would depend on what you take atheism to mean. "There are no deities" is a claim.

[Uncle]

It would depend on what you take atheism to mean. "There are no deities" is a claim.

I always liked this page

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-atheism/

Atheism is one thing: A lack of belief in gods.

Atheism is not an affirmative belief that there is no god nor does it answer any other question about what a person believes. It is simply a rejection of the assertion that there are gods. Atheism is too often defined incorrectly as a belief system. To be clear: Atheism is not a disbelief in gods or a denial of gods; it is a lack of belief in gods.

Older dictionaries define atheism as “a belief that there is no God.” Clearly, theistic influence taints these definitions. The fact that dictionaries define Atheism as “there is no God” betrays the (mono)theistic influence. Without the (mono)theistic influence, the definition would at least read “there are no gods.”

 

but then you scroll down

Being an atheist doesn’t mean you’re sure about every theological question, have answers to the way the world was created, or how evolution works. It just means that the assertion that gods exist has left you unconvinced.

Wishing that there was an afterlife, or a creator god, or a specific god doesn’t mean you’re not an atheist. Being an atheist is about what you believe and don’t believe, not about what you wish to be true or would find comforting.

[benji]

Atheism is not an affirmative belief that there is no god nor does it answer any other question about what a person believes. It is simply a rejection of the assertion that there are gods.
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Without the (mono)theistic influence, the definition would at least read “there are no gods.”

Define "gods."

[Nintex]

[filler]

https://gatamagazine.com/articles/art/kiryu-park

[filler]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[benji]

[Potato]

Trashy, come get your girl.

[killamajig]

[filler]

[benji]

[Potato]

Kill all streamers and eSports broadcasters

[filler]

[Propagandhim]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Uncle]

   

[Nintex]

[simiansmarts]

Not a fan of the script changes in the God of War remake

[benji]

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[filler]

me n a tall brunette

[Uncle]

   

[Uncle]