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Don't step into the ring if you don't want to get hit.
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they're not even taking a side, they are just visiting the whitehouse like basically every championship team
Silence *clap* is *clap* violence *clap* !
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Oseguera's death is a blow to the CJNG, a highly diversified criminal enterprise
We know who the progressives will support here...
It's a really easy answer to give.
"We're not going to tell our enemies how we'll respond militarily."
You don't even need college to know this. It's just common sense.
"We're not going to tell our enemies how we'll respond militarily."
You don't even need college to know this. It's just common sense.
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At least 35 institutions of higher education closed down last year. Around 30 shuttered in 2024. About 20 disappeared in 2023. The trend isn’t promising for small colleges and universities.
They can learn to code.
re: Vanderbilt probes math lecturer over anti-Zionist, antisemitic teaching materials
Posted by Azkiger on 2/22/26 at 1:17 pm to conservativewifeymom
1.) Leave your politics out of the class.
2.) Isn't Israel's borders expanding? If so, this seems to be another case of reality being racist.
2.) Isn't Israel's borders expanding? If so, this seems to be another case of reality being racist.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by Azkiger on 2/22/26 at 1:15 pm to imjustafatkid
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By your (and his) description, every Christian is also not stating a belief.
Unsurprisingly, you still do not get it.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by Azkiger on 2/22/26 at 1:11 pm to FooManChoo
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Eating and breathing are more efficient for humans due to the muscles used for both being in the same area, like I said.
What? Breathing is from the diaphragm. Chewing from the jaw. And even if they were "from the same area", how would that make them more efficient? And efficient at what? Energy conservation?
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From what I found, hands, wrists, and arms are actually the most common parts injured, followed by legs, feet, and ankles.
Lumbar spine. I'm not talking about knicks and cuts and bruises.
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The author of that started thinking like you 4 years ago, btw. When did you?
On this specific distinction?
I'd say about 15-20 years ago. I couldn't tell you where I read it, but I suspect it was either from Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, or Dennett as those were the only atheist authors I read.
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What is the difference between atheism and agnosticism?
"Gnosis" is greek for knowledge.
So Agonsitic deals with knowledge claims about God/gods, and atheism deals with personal beliefs about God/gods.
The graphic here is a good example.
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I'm speaking to atheism, which is a firm belief that there is no God.
That's not atheism, though.
Society disagrees, the root words disagree.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by Azkiger on 2/21/26 at 3:41 pm to imjustafatkid
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This is literally you describing a belief:
Nope.
You might as well be arguing that a jury that votes not guilty is voting that the person is innocent.
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How did you get there?
I've explained. Lots of planets and time, and I don't find arguments for God all that believable.
So, if I were to rank order likeliness, and just focus on naturalism and Christianity, I'm going to rank abiogenesis above Christianity.
There doesn't mean that I'm sure that abiogenesis occurred. It just means I find it to be more likely than the Christian explanation.
Many atheists have a similar thought process, especially the "famous" ones.
So, where is the "faith" in any of that?
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That is as irrelevant as Dawkins' chosen self-identification. If, as I suspect he is, Dawkins is founding his holdings solely upon what would be ascribed as falsifiable assertions, he is by definition agnostic. If however, he goes beyond that, and makes positive assertions that there is no God, he would rate as an atheist, and that would speak to faith, not science.
You're back to making mere assertions about definitions.
You're free to use words however you want. Unfortunately for you, though, you're in an extreme minority. Dawkins et all are considered by society as being atheists, and, in the spirit/intent of language, I am going to use their verbage/terms to cut down on confusion.
You're more than welcome to dig your heels in and keep muddying the water/derailing conversations with your atypical definitions though.
Also, as a parting post.
A=without
Theism=belief in god
Atheism = without belief in god.
Notice that's "without belief in god" not "belief there is no god".
Have a nice day.
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That's like if I asked why you voted for Kamala and you said "because I hate Trump."
It's actually not like that at all.
It's like saying that Trump has this one really good policy that I like and that all the people who have tried to convince me to vote Kamala have failed to convince me she is worth my vote.
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What are you not taking on faith to believe in spontaneous life from gasses?
It's my best guess at explaining the existence of life, it's not something I claim to know for sure or accept as truth. No faith required. It's just a "hrm, that seems most likely based on what I know right now".
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Based on what?
Based on the fact that I don't find there to be any good arguments for the existence of God and we're working with a universe with an estimated 700 quintillion (700,000,000,000,000,000,000 -- I think I got that right) thats about 14 billion years old, so plenty of planets and time for an extremely unlikely event to occur at least once.
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Society has decided those definitions. For example, "fascism." The fact that leftists ascribe that term to virtually all conservatives in the United States does not change the defined meaning of the term. It just speaks to their lack of understanding of it.
The left and right disagree on what fascism is.
Do you think that Christians and atheists disagree on whether or not Dawkins is an atheist?
Of course not. That's the difference. Your side of the fence labels them as atheists, and my side of the fence labels them as atheists. Society has spoken.
You're the odd man out.
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"Just "or "mercy" are floating signifiers. Aside from that, prove that such a being cannot exist.
Maybe you missed it, but I'm not here to argue my points.
If you want to know my stances/thoughts, fine. But I'm not debating. It's pointless.
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I honestly find it hard to believe you listened to scholars and apologists and didn't have those questions answered.
What answer did you find acceptable with respect to the Luke/Matthew Roman Census/The Slaughter of the Innocents potential contradiction?
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What's your take on abiogenesis?
That it's more likely to have occurred than God creating life.
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Because words have meaning.
Yes, and who decides the meanings of words if not the society that uses them?
Once you accept that, its hard to argue against society labeling Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, etc. as atheists.
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What did they say or not say that drove you in the opposite direction?
The gospels claims surrounding Jesus' birth was a big one.
Luke and Matthew's writings use a Roman Census and Herod the Great trying to kill Jesus as an infant despite these events occurring 10+ years apart at minimum is a pretty big blow to Christianity.
The Problem of Evil is another one, if you want to veer from historical occurrences and into philosophy.
Stories like Noah's flood, the 10 plagues of Egypt, etc. getting dismantled didn't help either.
It was death by a thousand small cuts. Some cuts were bigger than others, sure, but there was no single issue that had me stop believing.
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