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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: religion
« on: November 10, 2017, 04:28:33 PM »
Of course no one can be certain there is no god...for that matter I can't be certain I'm not in the Matrix, or the dream of a dolphin, etc.  If "absolute certainty of the absence of a god" is to be taken as the bar for true atheism, then we may as well not even have the word "atheist" in the first place.

If certainty is the bar for any belief then everyone on earth would be properly termed "agnostics".  Luckily we are able to recognize that language can afford a little bit more leeway than that.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: religion
« on: November 07, 2017, 03:48:09 PM »

Pascal was a pussy.


He was kind of narrow-sighted.  His famous Wager (essentially "You have everything to gain & nothing to lose by betting on God, whereas you have nothing to gain and everything to lose by betting against God...so you might as well bet on God") really rests on too many unfounded assumptions:

That the only options are the Judeo-Christian God (along with Satan, heaven & hell etc.) or atheism

That there is "nothing to be gained" by not believing in God

That there is "nothing to lose" by believing in God

I dunno...I don't believe in God because I just don't.  Of course I could spout off a litany of logical arguments supporting this but that ultimately doesn't make much difference.  I just don't...and I'm okay with that.  Nothing has ever led me to think I may be wrong about this.

That said, I find evangelical atheists to be just as obnoxious as any other evangelicals.  I don't define myself by my lack of religion, it's just how it is.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Solar Eclipse of 8/21 August
« on: May 11, 2017, 07:31:27 PM »
I live in Nashville, looking forward to it    :-B

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