Alan

Honestly, I don’t give a flying fuck what you all believe or don’t believe.

They why should we give a flying fuck about what you have to say?

I just like seeing you all get riled up and defensive.

That’s a pretty strong sign of trolling.

It really shows your true colors.

What, that we defend our arguments. I’m glad someone came along and exp…[Read more]

It probably would not take that much to convince everyone, really. I believe in the existence of dinosaurs. I believe in the existence of the planet Venus.

Indeed. And it’s amazing the crazy things that turn out to be true…when you have that, what’s that little annoying thing? What is it called? Oh yeah. EVIDENCE!

There are two kinds of “core” universal morality: 1) helping; 2) fairness.

That only makes sense in a highly idiosyncratic system of morality. And even then, it’s still incredible vague. (kinds of “core”…)??? And fairness is probably not the best term to use, if you are, which I can only guess, referring to something along the lines of justice/virtue.

I think they’re all linked up by…the essence of living

Sigh. I give up.

I do think that we ALL know deep down that we are connected to “God”/”The Great Sprit” whatever you want to call “it/him/her.”

I mean really…you have totally lost all intellectual dignity when you resort to bullshit like this. I could easily say “I do think that ALL religious people know deep down that their preposterous childish beliefs are…[Read more]

So because I’m atheist, I can’t use the word ‘spiritual’ to describe something that doesn’t relate to a God?

We’re adults. And as atheists I’d say, in a sense, we are also more adult-like in some intellectual ways. And adults get to make up their own rules. So no, there is nothing stopping you from using spiritual if you like. I simply recommend…[Read more]

the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Yeah you’ve just defined something referring to two other things that are extremely vaguely defined. “The human spirit”? Sounds like an enormous box where you put everything that’s difficult to sum upto words. “Soul”. I think there are about…[Read more]

@davis – we can give you definitions til we’re blue in the face, but you will probably continue to ignore them.

That’s because you rarely give a definition that actually describes things in meaningful ways. They are full of weasel words, vagueries, subject avoiding, non-committal references and basically ever device imaginable to avoid making any…[Read more]

…cherry pick and twist my words. You’re really good at that

We have an expression in Spanish (…lo dijo Blas…). It refers to any situation where someone cries “foul” but in reality that person is as guilty or flagrantly drippingly guilty of the very thing they’re complaining someone else does.

…cherry pick and twist my words. You’re rea…

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So to keep to buy original example about the soul, I think there are both physical and spiritual aspects of our being

Yeah well what does spiritual mean? What do you mean by this statement? I cannot understand it. Please elaborate

 atheists fully understand and the lens through which we describe what we think we know depends upon our world…

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