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Davis replied to the topic Burn Baby Burn in the forum Theism 9 years ago
David I am not arguing that atheist morality doesn’t exist, there simply isn’t one. Unless you can spell it out for me. I’d be curious what hundreds of millions of Chinese and Vietnamese atheists (who make up quite the majority of the Worlds atheists) would have in common per the moral systems of atheists in the UK or the United States or…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Burn Baby Burn in the forum Theism 9 years ago
The first moral code of atheism then
Atheism is a lack of belief in God. There is no atheist moral code. Take a random sample of 10 atheists in the world (China, Germany, Canada, Brazil, North Korea, Phillippines, the USA, Denmark, Russia, Vietnam) and you’ll find extremely different moral codes of which none are exceptional to atheists. Their…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic The big red atheist button in the forum
To Do or not To Do 9 years agoIndeed. We will, unfortunately, remain totally in the dark and swim in purposeful speculation, until someone invents that big red button. Will it happen in our lifetime?
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Davis replied to the topic The big red atheist button in the forum
To Do or not To Do 9 years agohow do you think that people would explain all the Bibles and Qurans and churches and temples and such?
People would look at the holy books in the same way they look at Shakespeares play or the Illiad or Zoroastrian books.
People would look at sacred buildings and percieve them just as we do now with Roman and Greek Ruins or the Pyramids…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Moving over from TA in the forum Introductions 9 years ago
Hey Umar. Three comments/questions:
1. Is it possible to have a multi-threaded format. It’s much much easier to follow a conversation with replies embedded in replies (like the reply tree we had at thinkatheist).
2. The web version will not allow me to load the desktop. The web version is just as limiting as TA was, but with TA I could try to…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School June 4th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 9 years ago+1
This is why it’s so important to qualify what you mean when using sweeping terms and to soften the claims with weasel words which are necessary when we are speculating or talking about something we don’t know so well (yes, weasel words are a good thing sometimes). Now that I have a better idea of what you are talking about and what you are…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School June 4th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 9 years agoIt comes down to the two main kinds of love offered by God: the unconditional (which is amoral and belongs to the individual) and the judgemental (which serves morality and applies to social life). They’re complementary, in that we need to thrive both individually and socially.
This is a false dichotomy, both through religion and in real life. F…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Moving over from TA in the forum Introductions 9 years, 1 month ago
The feature I would hope to see soon, is a “reply” link. That is, on TA you clicked on the Person replied to xxxx, and that link brought you to the actual reply that user made in the thread. Otherwise you have to go through the whole thread to find their response, which is tedious. I think it’s an essential feature that is needed here.
I hope we…[Read more]
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Davis and
Vivek are now friends 10 years, 1 month ago
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Paraclete are now friends 10 years, 8 months ago
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_7654_ are now friends 10 years, 10 months ago
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Steve Dustcircle and
Andrew Fox are now friends 10 years, 10 months ago
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Keith Pulley are now friends 10 years, 10 months ago
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Davis replied to the topic Language and consciencous in the forum Introductions 10 years, 10 months ago
In fact…most people in all cultures tend to agree on the principle shade of common colour terms (assuming that culture has the specific colour term). Given swatches with dozens of different hues…almost everyone within a culture that has a colour term for red…chooses lipstick red or at worst one or two slightly different shades darker or…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Donald Trump in the forum Politics 10 years, 10 months ago
American style attack ads used to be a really big no-no in Canada…especially after a nasty ad in the 90s that reduced a massive majority government to only 2 seats. A decade later…the current conservative government started up with bitchy adds and then went nuts with it. And not only during elections campaigns. They did these vicious attack…[Read more]
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