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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:18 AM Original message |
Definitions |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. G O D |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. I can't agree with your use of the word "necessary." |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I agree with you, but these definitions are meant to clarify a disagreement between |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm afraid that the intent is not clear, nor your definitions. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I see what you're saying. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Why am I an atheist? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Did you consider yourself a believer before age 20? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Before I was 20, I was a child. Children believe all sorts of things. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Not fully satisfactory, no. Sorry. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. Your definitions of atheist and agnostic are the same thing. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Well I guess the question is necessary for what or whom? |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I think your views are closer to mine, but ... |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I guess my definitions are meant to entail more or less rational belief. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Yeah now I'm leaning towards them not being useful definitions. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. No, for any moment they WE are unsure about the necessity, we have no belief in the necessity. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. That just shifts the definitions one step. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I like those better than my definitions |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Almost. IMO much depends on the definition of "God" |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
5. I reject your definitions. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. 'Hard agnostic: someone who believes that humans cannot know whether or not there is a god ...' |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I am also thinking out loud |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. How can I have decided belief in God isn't necessary when God cannot be defined? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I was just thinking out loud. |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I'm with John, |
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