loneindividual #fundie

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There is no such thing as a lack of religion.

There is no such thing as a lack of deity.

The Divine Personage or Object you place any degree of Devotion into—.is your God.

Even Simon & Garfunkel sang about the “NEON GOD” & Einstein treated the COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF HUMANITY as God.

Atheism is also vague & nonsensical. When people ask what you believe, Atheist is not useful. It doesn’t describe who you are AT ALL.

Atheism (Without God) is purely negative & absent of anything meaningful when communicating who you are. IT’S A USELESS LABEL! It’s about as dumb as AGNOSTIC (Without Knowledge)!

Atheism’s definition is being redefined to the point where it has no definition or simply means UNDEFINED—.which to my knowledge—Atheists worship DEFINITION & EVIDENCE—but their very label utterly lacks those virtues.

Only Nihilists (People who worship Death, Chaos, Darkness, Silence, etc) can be called ATHEISTS.

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old comment by Wehpudicabok

>define "god" as "whatever you worship"
>complain that others redefine everything to suit their rhetorical purposes

Right...

OK, fine, whatever, I'm "not an atheist." I'll tell you what I believe and you can call it whatever you want.

I do not believe in perfection. I don't believe there is any perfect being, or that the idea of a perfect being is even logically possible. I believe that it is possible that our universe was created by some being outside of it, but that isn't a satisfying answer to any metaphysical questions we might have because we can just ask them about the universe this creator inhabits. In short, with regard to the two definitions most people would give for the word "God," "supreme being" and "creator of the universe," I say "nope" and "who cares?", respectively.

Now that sounds like atheism to me. You wanna call it something else, that's your business, but you're the one redefining things, not me.

old comment by Tim of Whipping

I am perplexed by this attitude that so long as you worship some deity, that somehow makes it better than believing in no deity at all. The attitude that it's somehow impossible for someone not to worship. That it somehow even defines you as a person.

I find that attitude to be truly useless. It's a ridiculous word-twisting where absolutely anything can represent a 'god'. If what I place any devotion to is my god, then the word becomes meaningless.

I find it hard to be even irritated by this. It's just a confused mess from someone that doesn't understand the words they use, or the words of other people. This lost any hope of being a serious argument when it started citing Simon and Garfunkel, and misinterpreting Einstein.

old comment by Swede

There is no such thing as a lack of hair.
There is no such thing as a lack of anger.
Can you hear how stupid that sounds, dearie?

If I have no degree of Devotion, there is no Personage or Object to place it into. Ergo, I'm an atheist.

Yes, the word atheist doesn't describe who we are; it merely describes what we think about religion. To most atheists, religion is no part of who we are. We are so many other things, so why bother with boring things like religion?

Atheists don't worship DEFINITION & EVIDENCE. We accept sound and reasoned definitions and tangible evidence.

Nihilists, if they do indeed worship Death, Chaos, Darkness, Silence, etc, do have a lot of gods, and are therefore NOT atheists.

old comment by UHM

"The Divine Personage or Object you place any degree of Devotion into.is your God."
Wait a second, so the script I'm writing is my god? But I create it, so am I a god? And if it is god, than how could it be created? What if I delete it? Have I killed a god then?

"Atheism is also vague & nonsensical. When people ask what you believe, Atheist is not useful. It doesn’t describe who you are AT ALL."
Exactly! Finally one of you fucknuts actually got it!

"Atheism’s definition is being redefined to the point where it has no definition or simply means UNDEFINED.which to my knowledgeAtheists worship DEFINITION & EVIDENCEbut their very label utterly lacks those virtues."
No, the definition is very clear, it goes "does not believe there is a god."

"Only Nihilists (People who worship Death, Chaos, Darkness, Silence, etc) can be called ATHEISTS."
That's not what nihilism is. And since when is silence something bad?

old comment by Hasan Prishtina

There is no such thing as a lack of religion.

There is no such thing as a lack of deity.

The Divine Personage or Object you place any degree of Devotion into.is your God.

Even The Beatles sang of "Lady Madonna" and Frank Zappa about "Catholic Girls."

Acatholicism is also vague & nonsensical. When people ask what you believe, Acatholic is not useful. It doesn’t describe who you are AT ALL.

Acatholicism (Without the Catholic Church) is purely negative & absent of anything meaningful when communicating who you are. IT’S A USELESS LABEL! It’s about as dumb as AGNOSTIC (Without Knowledge)!

Acatholicism’s definition is being redefined to the point where it has no definition or simply means UNDEFINED.which to my knowledgeAcatholics worship the WRITTEN WORD, DEFINITION & EVIDENCEbut their very label utterly lacks those virtues.

Only Nihilists (People who worship Death, Chaos, Darkness, Silence, etc) can be called ACATHOLICS.

old comment by Adrian

"It doesn’t describe who you are AT ALL."

It isn't supposed to. And are you seriously complaining that it takes more than one word to describe people? Do you want a world were people are such cookie-cutter clones that one word is enough to define someone?

"When people ask what you believe, Atheist is not useful."

It describes my religious views quite clearly and succintly, actually, which is all that it is supposed to do. Not everyone lumps their ethical or political views with their religion the way fundies do. Not to mention that there is more to someone than just their beliefs: physical characteristics, gender, orientation, age, social and ethnical background, personal history, interests and hobbies,...

"Atheism is also vague & nonsensical."

As I already said above, it is actually a clear and precise word describing an aspect of myself quite well. But if you want a an uselessly vague label, how about "Christian"? There are so many variants of Christianity that it can mean pretty much anything and its opposite: an actual disciple of the nice Jewish hippie from Nazareth, an Old Testament worshipping hate-spigot, a follower of that apocalyptic nutjob with more issues than the NY Times Saul of Tharsus,... You have to specify to which denomination, sect or sub-sect you suscribe, and even then it doesn't tell us precisely how closely you actually adhere to the doctrine and values your group professes.

Only Nihilists (People who worship Death, Chaos, Darkness, Silence, etc) can be called ATHEISTS.

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But Silence...? THIS QUIET OFFENDS SLAANESH!!!

(Though seriously, some silence would be nice. If only this [censored] plumber would hurry and come to fix my Nurgle-cursed water heater... >_<)

Tell me, Georgy, upon what do you base your assumptions, axioms, a priori precepts and assertions.

General and special revelation.

Isn't it obvious?

So you actually believe that your God speaks to you? Isn't that how the Son of Sam started his rampage? (Or maybe it was his dog, but meh, same difference...)

In any case, could you wait here an instant? I need to go fetch Mr Hypodermic Gun and the antipsychotics.

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