Atheists/Agnostics/Skeptics! What are your sources of knowledge?

[McBell]

Did I ever say it?

Yes, you did.

Please quote from me or give the post # and thread name.

Here you go:

I don't deal in definitions, sorry.

 

[s13ep]

I was just thinking to myself that I've gone for too many days without petulant paranoia. Thanks for catching me up on my quota.

What is this if not a reference to something you've called logic, used in an illogical, spiritual way? I mean, I'm the paranoid one for not trusting the government and academia, because you believe that everything is perfect in our little word world. On the other hand, you're completely sane for trusting their every word and not assessing the situation.

Even though you're simply not thinking opposite to what they've taught you in schools, you think you can and, unfortunately, are allowed to state something that you think should be recognized as rational...

You follow it up by blending with the crowed to cover up your past actions, like a child who says something rude then is a little scared because something bad might happen. An invisibility spell is a fine answer for that part.

As for the claim "I'm paranoid", and dragging my words down in your lazy, two-bit argument; that's just you being unintellectual.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Everybody could respond. Theists or Non-theists.

Regards

Interaction with people, books, myself, experiences, observation, study, academics, a whole boat load of sources. Sources for what knowledge?

 

[gnostic]

Interaction with people, books, myself, experiences, observation, study, academics, a whole boat load of sources. Sources for what knowledge?

Paarsurrey never made clear in his OP, what "knowledge" he is talking about. So many people have already asked him this very question.

Anytime someone asked him to clarify what he mean, he will either dismiss you or evade you.

In fact, he doesn't like direct questions, so he is quite infamous for it, especially on threads that he started himself.

 

[gnostic]

Did I ever say it? Please quote from me or give the post # and thread name.
I know the dictionary definitions are only opinions and are never 100% correct. Under a process the words come into existence and then become extinct. I therefore request my friends to give their own understanding of something, that is simple and works for me.

You don't know anything, paarsurrey.

Dictionaries are not opinions, but they are only provided limited details. They don't explain anything in depth.

The problems are not the definitions. The problems are "YOU".

You often try to definition of known words, because you think you are smartest than EVERYONE. And you think YOU are better than experts.

You have too high an opinion of your own intellect.

You keep saying you are average normal person, but every time someone disagree with you, you tell them they are wrong, even with the things you have no expertise in. Your hubris is that you you think you are smarter than everyone else, but you can't learn from your mistakes.

You tends to ignore or evade people when they have corrected you.

 

[McBell]

Sorry for the Atheists/Agnostics/Skeptics for having no specific source of knowledge of their own, they have to cherry pick from others.
Regrds

You really should be apologizing for there not being a single book/source that contains all the knowledge....

 

[Tiberius]

Can science cover the real purpose of a thing/event? Please
Regards

If something has a purpose, then this implies that there is an intent behind it.

What is the purpose of an asteroid? This implies that there is some intelligence that created the asteroid, and I have seen no evidence of this.

So before you ask if science can uncover the purpose of something, you must first show that the thing in question actually HAS a purpose.

 

[Tiberius]

Science used to be magic, though.

No it didn't.

Science is a process, a systematic investigation of reality. It's not a "thing" like Christianity is a thing.

And even if something scientific was not understood, it does not mean it was magic. Science does not become magic simply because the people watching it lack knowledge of what is going on.

 

[paarsurrey]

No it didn't.
Science is a process, a systematic investigation of reality. It's not a "thing" like Christianity is a thing.
And even if something scientific was not understood, it does not mean it was magic. Science does not become magic simply because the people watching it lack knowledge of what is going on.

When this process started for the first time, who started it and what was the project at hand? Kindly mention year, name of the scientist and about what was the process. Please
Regards

 

[LuisDantas]

Science, or rather the scientific method, began in pre-history, well before records were possible. It is quite likely that it developed gradually and in several places somewhat simultaneously as well.

Why would you expect a specific, definite starting point to exist?

 

[paarsurrey]

If something has a purpose, then this implies that there is an intent behind it.
What is the purpose of an asteroid? This implies that there is some intelligence that created the asteroid, and I have seen no evidence of this.
So before you ask if science can uncover the purpose of something, you must first show that the thing in question actually HAS a purpose.

Yes, the creator did create everything with a purpose:

[21:17]And We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between the two in play.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=21&verse=16​

Regards

 

[Tiberius]

When this process started for the first time, who started it and what was the project at hand? Kindly mention year, name of the scientist and about what was the process. Please
Regards

It was a process developed over many hundreds of years by many different people.

 

[Tiberius]

Yes, the creator did create everything with a purpose:

[21:17]And We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between the two in play.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=21&verse=16​

Regards

Quoting your holy book to me is not going to convince me that it is accurate.

Try again.

 

[paarsurrey]

paarsurrey said: ↑
Yes, the creator did create everything with a purpose:

[21:17]And We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between the two in play.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=21&verse=16

Regards

Quoting your holy book to me is not going to convince me that it is accurate.
Try again.

I can understand one's frail position.
It is OK with me, never-mind. Please
Regards

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Yes, you did.


Here you go:

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The silence is deafening.

 

[McBell]

I can understand one's frail position.
It is OK with me, never-mind. Please
Regards

i would most certainly hope so given how frail yours is....

 

[Tiberius]

I can understand one's frail position.
It is OK with me, never-mind. Please
Regards

My frail position?

How is it frail? You're the one who has to resort to the tired old, "But I have an old book that says..." argument.

 

[paarsurrey]

My frail position?
How is it frail? You're the one who has to resort to the tired old, "But I have an old book that says..." argument.

Please don't be angry. It is a friendly discussion.
Please quote from me where I ever said that.
I am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim who believe in the Word of Revelation from G-d which is called Recitation or in Arabic Quran. It is primarily a verbal transmission or Converse of G-d with the human kind through his truthful prophet Muhammad.
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

Quoting your holy book to me is not going to convince me that it is accurate.
Try again.

You did not get the wisdom in the verse, it was sufficient to convince one, if one is in search of truth , unbiased.
Regards

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Yes, the creator did create everything with a purpose:

[21:17]And We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between the two in play.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=21&verse=16​

Regards

Who created the creator?