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Pope George Ringo II

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36. The only question with "theists" is what kind of magic they believe in, but that is a commonality.

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 10:45 PM

Mar 2019

Some Buddhists do make arguments that they're not in that group. Other Buddhists disagree. Both groups are more qualified to touch on fine points of their philosophy than I would ever be.

Either way, I've learned that there is a halfway numerous subset of theists who are genuinely ignorant of the actual definition of the word. One of the things the word encourages in that group is the misunderstanding that the question is binary, which it most assuredly is not.

We won't get into the subset which is too willfully dishonest to count all the way to zero.

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Gnostic Agnostic.. [View all] Soph0571 Mar 2019 OP

Being an atheist is rather like being a socialist. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2019 #1

Nothing wrong with implicit atheism Major Nikon Mar 2019 #6

Words exist because they are useful in everyday life marylandblue Mar 2019 #23

Its usefulness is severely diminished by theists who can't count to zero. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2019 #25

You can play around all day with the absurdities of language and people's misunderstandings marylandblue Mar 2019 #30

The only question with "theists" is what kind of magic they believe in, but that is a commonality. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2019 #36

Where do you put someone who just doesn't know if there's a god? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #2

Don't know and don't care is an apatheist Major Nikon Mar 2019 #3

I admit there is a possibility that a god exists. Mariana Mar 2019 #8

I kinda think the Banana Cult might have some merit Major Nikon Mar 2019 #27

All that's required to be an atheist is lack of belief in deities Major Nikon Mar 2019 #4

Put me in the lower left quadrant. Agnostic Atheist. Willing to let others believe what they want erronis Mar 2019 #5

I don't see how Gnostic Atheism even begins to make sense. Ron Obvious Mar 2019 #7

It makes just as much sense as gnostic theism Mariana Mar 2019 #9

Theists usually refer to "Revealed Knowledge" Ron Obvious Mar 2019 #12

I'm not absolutely certain there's no spaceship behind the Hale Bopp comet Major Nikon Mar 2019 #13

I don't believe in the existence of deities. MineralMan Mar 2019 #10

Gnostic should refer to knowing from experience. Lots of people, myself included, have Karadeniz Mar 2019 #11

Strange you'd accept the one making an incredible claim and reject the one that doesn't Major Nikon Mar 2019 #14

I'm sorry, but I don't understand. What incredible claim do I accept? The medical doctor's? Actually Karadeniz Mar 2019 #17

You described it twice Major Nikon Mar 2019 #18

I have a serious question. Mariana Mar 2019 #16

The doctor wrote a book. She could be an unscrupulous liar. She could have studied Karadeniz Mar 2019 #19

The doctor wrote a book? Awesome. Mariana Mar 2019 #21

...and made money from it Major Nikon Mar 2019 #22

There's a lot of money being made from books like that. nt. Mariana Mar 2019 #31

There's a lot of money to be made from religion period Major Nikon Mar 2019 #33

Not to mention people readily believe what they are conditioned to believe Major Nikon Mar 2019 #20

I don't separate belief from knowledge and I find the word "belief" ambiguous marylandblue Mar 2019 #15

Neither am I absolutely certain Xenu didn't bring billions of people to Teegeeack (Earth) in a DC-8 Major Nikon Mar 2019 #24

I am 100% certain that Xenu did no such thing. marylandblue Mar 2019 #26

I'm not sure how you can say that with zero proof Major Nikon Mar 2019 #28

Because the universe would have to work in a very different way than it does marylandblue Mar 2019 #29

Actually I'd say the reverse is true Major Nikon Mar 2019 #32

It's not just that there is no evidence that there are thetans marylandblue Mar 2019 #34

That sounds like your argument so I'm trying to understand it Major Nikon Mar 2019 #35

I don't ridicule any beliefs myself. If someone says they have evidence of something, marylandblue Mar 2019 #37