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Minor note as I watch the video: I think he’s only partly correct that we care more for dogs than (say) flies because dogs are more intelligent. We relate to dogs/cats and other animals not just with intelligence, but with empathy, and sharing of feelings with each other. Cognitive intelligence plus emotional intelligence, if you will. This point…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
PopeBeanie and Unseen, I know it does sound utopian. […]

And that’s ok! I don’t do enough reading on these things but still develop my own ideas. I’m thinking, e.g. that new “parties” will be willing to join forces one day to overcome the hurdles of running against the two party system. The theme, at least at first,…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Others have also suggested getting rid of parties entirely and letting individual candidates run solely on their ideas and past records.

I’m close to believing that, I just don’t know how to make it happen. I think the founders of USA had no idea how two-party politics would be able to hang on to power and then corrupt…[Read more]

1) Only if the computer (ironically) requires infinitesimal energy; 2) Or any object with circularity.

What if the only meaning of “infinity” is that there can be nothing larger (or smaller) within the context wherein it refers to a quantity? E.g. if a Big Bang starts off with infinite density in infinitesimal space and time, assuming no other…[Read more]

As for voting vs praying, I’d say they’re more equivalent as “faiths”, and specifically “group faiths”. When I vote, which I will mail in as soon as I study the local ballot measures, I know it won’t really make a difference. So I vote with the faith that I’m doing the right thing for my fellow citizens, as I think my fellow citizens are also…[Read more]

Thanks again Anna. The best I can tell, Sue’s had earlier IDs set up and we’re now seeing use of those past IDs.

I’ve taken more measures but am not sure how well they’ll work. (By the way, I got the same email, but I have no way to know who else or how many other members also get them.)

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I know I probably come off angry […]

No, if I responded sounding as if I felt that way, it was my mistake. Half my reason for being here is to give any theists that come by a chance to see that there’s an alternative to the traditional religious attitudes that were invented by human beings long ago, and imo, after…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Here’s one of those interesting stories that comes up when you put “Atheism” in the news search engine:

Black Skeptics Find Meaning in Uplifting Their Community Through Social Justice

Black nonbelievers have for years been working to redefine what it means to be an Atheist, a word too often linked to white spaces mostl…

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Alejandro, my apologies if you are reading this. In my haste, I foolishly deleted you as an AtheistZone member after reading Anna’s post. Please sign up again. (I have no other way to contact you.)

Yes Anna, thank you for this warning! I deleted this member a couple hours ago. So I suspect that you’ve copy/ pasted that text from an email, or from an old AZ post that that should have also disappeared? Please let me know if you still see this post anywhere on AZ.

This also goes for any friend requests from this scammer… I believe those…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Is that an equitable settlement?

To all people of faith, and many atheists: Keep in mind that anyone angry at God are misdirecting their anger toward a fictional being. It’s human beings who keep the ideas of invisible gods, goods, and evils going.

Atheist Zone came from Think Atheist (TA). Asking for money was unsuccessful there, so we volunteers (including the new owner of TA) moved here to AZ which costs significantly less to maintain. I think of it as a community service, and wish that any atheist org owner/principal thinking of giving up would reach out to other, similar orgs and offer…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
You have picked a side. The side the believers are on. And your sort of reasoning gives them oxygen and encouragement to go out and spread the word.

I’ve redacted what I first wrote here. It was just a silly, anoxic observation.

Fox News’ Owner Murdoch Predicts Biden Landslide Win

Article. (But I heard Murdoch predicted the same thing in 2016.)

Fun pic in story:

TheEncogitationer wrote:

An assertion not found in evidence.

True. Think I went out on a limb glibly, kinda making fun of logical arguments that probably wouldn’t matter at all to those believers out there who will just make up their own logic (or ignore it) in any case. God was a human — specifically-patriarchal invention from the very start of…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Omniscience is self-contradictory because it is a claim to knowledge without acquisition and verification, which cannot exist.

Unless the universe is just a module in God’s program.

Unseen wrote:
That whole “You can’t prove a negative” thing is bogus both in math/logic and real life. There’s no question A and Not-A i…

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