God, Atheists, Eco-Marxists and Hot Sauce? - Page 4

KING CHARLIE :D

United States447 Posts

July 19 2012 12:39 GMT

#61

On July 19 2012 03:06 ranjutan wrote:
i actually think that ingesting hot sauce encourages people to speak with drawls

Yeah. For some reason this reminded me that she hyper-stimulated her taste buds so much by having spicy hot sauce all of the time that she couldn't really taste anything else, it was all bland.

Yoduh

United States216 Posts

July 19 2012 14:32 GMT

#62

It's not really fair to say being a gnostic atheist is impossible. Expanding on what this person said:

In Richard Dawkins book the God Delusion he says that on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being absolutely sure in a God, and 7 being absolutely sure that there is no God, he's only a 6.9 Most are 6.9's lol.

I'm sure a lot of people are actually more like 6.999. You might as well be a 7, and for all intents and purposes you are a 7. It's only when someone asks a stupid question like "BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW!?!?" that they knock you back down to 6.9. It's a cheap shot made to make an atheist's opinion appear weak, using their own logic based reasoning against them, knowing that the unprovable is not disprovable. But even though I might be 99.999% certain that God does not exist, does that missing 0.0001% disqualify me from being gnostic? I think the definitions of gnostic/agnostic/theist/atheist are more flexible than that. If God exists than he serves a function or multiple functions, otherwise no one would have even imagined him in the first place. But since the advent of modern civilization the number of phenomenon attributed to God has been diminishing. There's only 1 great unexplained mystery of the universe that is still attributed to God by even the most casual theists and that is the beginning of the universe. More stronger theists of course would attribute a lot more than just that to God, but every "act of God" from the Sun rising to out of body experiences have been disproven or been given scientific explanations by now. Say if 99.999% of what we see around us that was once attributed to needing an explanation involving God is now scientifically explained, is it really too difficult to be 99.999% certain in the nonexistance of God? Is that still agnostic?

Amaterasu1234

United States317 Posts

July 19 2012 17:59 GMT

#63

If I keep reading these blogs, they'll soon become a sort of bread and butter for me 'cause this ish is freakin' hilarious!

KING CHARLIE :D

United States447 Posts

July 19 2012 22:52 GMT

#64

On July 20 2012 02:59 Amaterasu1234 wrote:
If I keep reading these blogs, they'll soon become a sort of bread and butter for me 'cause this ish is freakin' hilarious!

Thanks man. I will keep making them.

NoodleFish

South Africa198 Posts

July 19 2012 23:26 GMT

#65

lol, enjoyed the blog entry... But enjoyed the argument about agnostic/gnostic/whatever/athiestic stuff a little more. Can't people just get the general idea?

Anyways, my personal food drug is actually a drink: tea! I think I've had a few instances where 3 or more days without tea have caused me severe headaches. I drink about 3-8 cups of tea a day (depending on circumstances) and I like it strong :D with 2 sugars and milk, of course

KING CHARLIE :D

United States447 Posts

July 19 2012 23:46 GMT

#66

On July 20 2012 08:26 NoodleFish wrote:
lol, enjoyed the blog entry... But enjoyed the argument about agnostic/gnostic/whatever/athiestic stuff a little more. Can't people just get the general idea?

Anyways, my personal food drug is actually a drink: tea! I think I've had a few instances where 3 or more days without tea have caused me severe headaches. I drink about 3-8 cups of tea a day (depending on circumstances) and I like it strong :D with 2 sugars and milk, of course

I really like you Noodlefish. I learned a big lesson this week, and that's that you can have an incredible blog entry with tons of great points, but saying one thing that's divisive can make it go completely unnoticed. I gotta be more consistent. It's funny because the entire sentiment of my blog remains unchanged, and the types of people I was referencing remains unchanged, I just foolishly defined them. It's also pretty funny that I was open-minded with all of the followup conversations and learned something, almost like I planned it in relation to the closed-minded blog. Years from now I will pretend I did it on purpose.

Some moron in a pathetic attempt to sound pithy said, "Calling someone closed-minded is the most closed-minded thing you can do." In all of my years listening to stupid people talk, I've never heard anything more retarded. It's like he really wanted to make a bumper sticker style catchphrase but didn't think about it at all. It's ok, he went on to tell me that approaching things based on logic isn't something you can do because life is "too complicated". Would LOVE to hear what he deals with that is too complicated to approach with logic. Maybe tying his shoes.