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Do atheists believe in magnetism?

Sheldon

Sheldon

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Sheldon

Sheldon

Veteran Member
Subduction Zone said:
Tsk, tsk. The real Sheldon would have disagreed with you. He had it spelled correctly:

Caliber - Wikipedia

And as a perfect example of Muphry's law you messed up when you incorrectly copied his term.

And everything else in your post was correct of course.
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Mea culpa maxima, but it's reassuring to known someone is subjecting my posts to objective scrutiny. :D:cool:...it appears this is a colloquial spelling. ;)
 
Balthazzar

Balthazzar

N. Germanic Descent
Sheldon said:
Which god? What objective evidence can you demonstrate it exists? What objective evidence can you demonstrate it is "relevant" as you put it, to anything? Given you might be able to answer either of the first two questions, as thus far you demonstrably can't.
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All of them, Sheldon- I would be hard pressed to convince you I'm real, or maybe you question whether anything is real - simulated virtual computer generated nothing. I don't know. I'm not you. We have different lives and apparently very different concepts of objective reality and truth. I'll pass - Thank you for the stimulating conversation, though. It has been thought provoking, if not stirring.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Sheldon said:
Mea culpa maxima, but it's reassuring to known someone is subjecting my posts to objective scrutiny. :D:cool:...it appears this is a colloquial spelling. ;)
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No, it is an improved spelling that at one point has hopes of making English spelling rational and eventually gave up on it as an impossible task. But at least words like "maneuver" can go to bed at night and sleep peacefully again. Though and word with a certain four letter combination still have a severe anxiety problem. They have a rough and tough time each night wondering how they should be pronounced. It is no day at the beach for them even if the beach is on a lough.

Panic shoots through them quite often Especially if Desi Arnaz is reading them bedtime story:

 
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F1fan

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Balthazzar said:
I assume you, me, George, among others exist. I assume the universe exists and everything it contains.
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You assume you exist? You aren't sure you exist as you ponder your existence? You don't find that ironic and contradictory?

If you are this confused then there really isn't any more progress you can make, until you accept that your senses are reliable and can reliably inform your brain that there is existence outside your consciousness.

At some point you have to accept certain things are true just to function as a living being.

That's my theological concept of God, our origins, our Supreme authority of which we must consider as living breathing children of.
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Why do you assume these idea when none of it corresponds to real things or phenomenon? You and me exist independent of our thinking and awareness, these ideas do not.

Who says theology is reliable and believable?

Who says any god exists?

What makes you think there is anything like a supreme authority?
 
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Mock Turtle said:
Religions have a tendency to spread, just like all knowledge, but that hardly testifies to the truth of such, just as the numbers game does neither too - the numbers believing any particular thing. I'm sure many do feel some comfort in knowing that some form of religion is believed by the majority ...
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For me majority is no good reason for anything. And actually by what the Bible tells, it will be only few that find the way.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
Mat. 7:14

For many are called, but few chosen.
Mat. 22:14

My point was, Christianity is not really local for anyone else than those who live in Israel.
 
Sheldon

Sheldon

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Balthazzar said:
All of them, Sheldon-
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All of them what? o_O You think every deity human's have imagined is real? Really?

I would be hard pressed to convince you I'm real, or maybe you question whether anything is real - simulated virtual computer generated nothing.
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An odd assumption, and pretty irrelevant to you not being able to demonstrate any objective evidence for any deity. I can think of several types of compelling objective evidence I could demonstrate that I exist.

We have different lives and apparently very different concepts of objective reality and truth.
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Yes but you don't see able or willing to explain why you think everything represents evidence for a deity? I'd have thought having made the claim you could offer something in support of it or to cogently explain it? Just as with religious texts, when I pressed you, you simply quoted one piece of text that was simply objective claims, and cited others but didn't explain why you thought they represented evidence for any deity.
 
Balthazzar

Balthazzar

N. Germanic Descent
Faith, magnetism, principles, observable evidence - tangible enough to rely on, survival, adaptation, nurture, preserveeence, self preservation, and environmental influences that shape and dictate choice, an unseen evidence and substance of hope. Beyond this, objective enough to claim true.
 
SkepticThinker

SkepticThinker

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Shadow Wolf said:
When I watch it, I tend to know just about everything or hardly anything on an episode.
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Haha! Same here. Some days I watch it and feel like a genius and then other days I feel like the dumbest person on earth.
It's all or nothing, it seems.

Weirdly enough, if I smoke a joint beforehand, I seem to know more of the answers. Or maybe it just feels that way.

But you could totally do it with that rote memory of yours! :D
 
Ostronomos

Ostronomos

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Sheldon said:
Which god? What objective evidence can you demonstrate it exists? What objective evidence can you demonstrate it is "relevant" as you put it, to anything? Given you might be able to answer either of the first two questions, as thus far you demonstrably can't.
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Every conscious being is one conscious being existing in parallel, experiencing themselves as separate and distinct lifeforms. No atheist in human history has ever proven otherwise.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

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Ostronomos said:
Two reasons:

1. The highest caliber logic emanates from my brain during brief periods of deep relaxation in which supernatural experiences also occur.

and

2. I possess something you and other atheists don't. Namely evidence for God.
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The logic you have presented here has been of a very low caliber, a slight improvement over that would not prove anything.

And you do not appear to have evidence for God. I don't think that you understand the concept.
 
Sheldon

Sheldon

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Ostronomos said:
I possess something you and other atheists don't. Namely evidence for God.
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Great, can you demonstrate any of it? Otherwise it's still just a subjective belief. No different to all the other deities and religions people claim are validated by their subjective experiences.
 
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