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by dawg- 5y ago
Click "Einverstehen"
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by dawg- 5y ago
A suggestion that there are things you haven't heard of doesn't equate to infinite things. Let's say there are 10 arguments for God's existence, but the only one you are familiar with is "a thing exists, but there
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by dawg- 5y ago
I already replied to your comment below, but this one is interesting too. > The main issue with most of these philosophical arguments is that they don't prove anything even worth refuting. Almost all of them simply attempt to prove
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by dawg- 5y ago
Well it depends on the nature of God's interaction, doesn't it? There are no big hands coming out of the sky and moving things around, I'll give you that. The theologist Paul Tillich argued that God is not a being-in-the-worl
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by dawg- 5y ago
Isn't it right there in the name? a - theism?
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by dawg- 5y ago
You don't believe that we can access meaningful knowledge about the world through logic? If not, then what the heck are you doing on a forum about computers?
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by dawg- 5y ago
>Atheism is a recognition that there is zero evidence for the existence of any gods. You're bemoaning a lack of empirical evidence when the problem is actually a philosophical one. >there is nothing to refute Correct me if I&#x27
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by dawg- 5y ago
Why ignore the main point of my comment? I directly addressed one reason why a random turtle god and an actual religion are very different. I was talking about traditions, yes, but to write it off as simply an "appeal to tradition&qu
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by dawg- 5y ago
Why not?
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by dawg- 5y ago
I think you betray your lack of understanding by categorizing any religious belief aside from fundamentalism as "cherry picking whatever pieces of the bible...". There is a 2,000 year old tradition of hermeneutic interpretation of
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by dawg- 5y ago
People tend to participate in online communities that affirm their sense of identity. Maybe people who get really involved are those who see atheism as a more important aspect of their identity? I was definitely turned on to atheism on the
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by dawg- 5y ago
You don't have any reason that you have considered . Which is totally fine. The problem comes when atheists believe a priori that any argument for God's existence would be automatically false, even the ones they have never hear
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by dawg- 5y ago
There are many different ways to read the bible. Mainly, the bible is not a literal instructional manual unless you are a fundamentalist. And fundamentalists suck. For others, it's a written record of humanity's relationship with
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by dawg- 5y ago
I became an atheist/agnostic as a teenager and now in my late 20's I have slowly come back to religion. So I am really interested in this topic. My comment is specifically about online atheist communities, because I think they are
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by dawg- 5y ago
In some senses, it's just a rehashing of the old "bread and circuses" line. Except this time it's iphones and a starbucks latte.
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by dawg- 6y ago
I don't think I agree. Things only become symbols when read as symbols
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by dawg- 6y ago
> art should not be ephemeral Why not?
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by dawg- 6y ago
Baudrillard's insistence on reading everything as a symbol gets him in trouble. There are a lot of intellectual fireworks in his writing, but I think he lacks depth and appreciation for the vibrancy and diversity of life. It's ano
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by dawg- 6y ago
Interesting. Maybe the new rule should be "Eat red meat if you want, just don't let it make you fat".
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by dawg- 6y ago
You can make some pretty attractive layouts with Adobe InDesign. Although I could never imagine managing an 800 page report like this in InDesign
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by dawg- 6y ago
This article comes across as very "inside baseball" i.e. the crowd who are intimately familiar with the ongoing melodrama in journalism, the history of the NY Times, etc. See his reference to his "until now anonymous comments
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by dawg- 6y ago
Unfortunately that's just about par for the course by Forbes standards
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by dawg- 6y ago
Is there something wrong with Lithuania and Portugal that it is so bad to be next to them in some world ranking? I get tired of the thinking that if the USA is not "#1 best in the entire history of the world" in these global ranki
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by dawg- 6y ago
Based on my experience, full-time positions just specializing in GIS are probably extremely rare for this type of organization - hence the desperate need for someone who is good at it. Nobody in those places has time to learn/maintain
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by dawg- 6y ago
I spent a few years working for a small environmental advocacy group in small-town USA. One thing you could do is branch out your skills and learn GIS, then offer that to small groups who are doing environmental advocacy. These groups are c
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by dawg- 6y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to say that I'm gatekeeping what people read. It's more about the spirit behind the reading. Anyway, if it's gatekeeping to suggest that people should pursue personal growth through their ow
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by dawg- 6y ago
Ah! You quoted me but you put a very convenient [...] in place of learning about "yourself". I think the reason you did that is because your criticism is only coherent if you zero in on learning about "the world" and lea
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by dawg- 6y ago
Understandable to disagree, you're not gonna learn to drive a car or do calculus or speak another language from the head of a pin. Nevertheless, I think there's a valuable philosophical perspective in it.
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by dawg- 6y ago
Just to be clear, I agree with you 100% that accessing other people's best thoughts through reading is very valuable and very awesome. On the other hand, you don't need a thousand other lives to live one good one. As Thoreau wrote
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by dawg- 6y ago
>Even if you cheat, is reading 15 short, bad books better or worse than reading 0? If it's done as a chore to hit a certain number, or in a performative spirit to show others how much one has read, I think that person would get more

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