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  1. Kartari

    What is 'Islamophobia'?

    Hi Rival, To answer your title's question, "What is Islamophobia?" I would add to this definition that it is fear or hatred based on common (and ignorant) perceptions of who or what all Muslims stand for, typically in the form of lumping the world's 1.7 billion Muslims into one identical...
  2. Kartari

    Why The Electoral College Is Fair

    Hi buddhist and esmith, And this goes out to anyone else who favors the EC based on the state representation argument (My eyes just happened to catch these two posts). The United States, as per the Constitution, was indeed designed to be as you both describe. Yet the Founders did foresee...
  3. Kartari

    Why The Electoral College Is Fair

    I think the logic stated in the OP in support of the Electoral College is flawed. Regardless of where a person resides (urban, rural, big state, small state), in a popular vote all votes equally count. The idea that only several cities would count is flat out wrong. All votes would be tallied...
  4. Kartari

    Donald Trump is USA president

    Hi Wu Wei, First of all, I am sorry if my previous post came off a bit aggressive. Back to the point, I have indeed been paying very careful attention to Trump. I agree on media bias, which is why I go straight to the source for my information. I have listened to the man himself concerning...
  5. Kartari

    Let Us Hope......

    Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of people really understood what was at stake in this election. I don't like Clinton either, but the two were not at all comparable evils.
  6. Kartari

    Let Us Hope......

    Hope is all we have at this point (barring his own criminal conviction costing him his position). But to be honest, I see absolutely nothing redeeming in the man. I sincerely doubt he has the capacity to even approach any of these feats.
  7. Kartari

    Isn’t Atheism a faith-based non-religion?

    Yeah, those devils at NASA, using camera tricks to make us believe they actually orbited the Earth! It's all just a hoax to justify their budget. Just like those paleontologists making up stories about dinosaurs not living alongside humans 6,000 years ago. We know this is the truth because we...
  8. Kartari

    Donald Trump is USA president

    You haven't been paying attention to what Trump's been advocating he'd do, have you? I would not be surprised if we find ourselves in Word War 3 based on his insane ideas. I am not kidding...
  9. Kartari

    How Hillary Lost The Election

    This I get and agree with the sentiment. But Trump is most certainly not the man the American people hope he is. The only skill this obvious con artist seems to be good at is appearing confident about the complete BS he's been perpetually spewing forth as he's gone along, promising his plans...
  10. Kartari

    Are Congress, the U.S. Constitution, and State Law Going to Shackle Trump?

    Hi DS, Good question. Considering the fact that the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution, as a for instance, did nothing to stop segregation and other racist policies from being implemented and enforced in the United States for a century after those amendments were adopted, @Laika is...
  11. Kartari

    Donald Trump is USA president

    Hi Debate Slayer, No, no, democracy is not the problem. Indeed, Trump's been advocating policies that are anti-democracy. The problem is with the people: our ignorance, and our lack of discernment for quality information. We live in a time when there's an overabundance of information quantity...
  12. Kartari

    Donald Trump is USA president

    I'm absolutely horrified. I didn't get any sleep. Morons. A country of backwards, ignorant morons. There is no kind way to put this. There are a lot of gullible people in my country who have been taken in by a crazy con artist. They bought the propaganda, and now the United States and the world...
  13. Kartari

    Isn’t Atheism a faith-based non-religion?

    Sorry to interject in the game between Acim and Segev, but... I couldn't resist. :)
  14. Kartari

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    Hi Segev, Only people from the Abrahamic religions might be concerned with this question. Personally, as an American Buddhist who is also an atheist, I could care less about God, much less God's opinions on religions. In Buddhism, while deities have traditionally been believed in, they are at...
  15. Kartari

    What religion is the best for me?

    Hi Didgeridoo, This does leave you with a very wide array of possibilities. If you don't believe Jesus is God, then I think that only excludes Christianity. There are many other religions in the world to choose from: Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Sikhism, Unitarian Universalism...
  16. Kartari

    Are you an atheist? if so, What is your POV about God?

    Hi Segev, As a fellow atheist, I agree and also find it a highly unlikely but not a 100% impossible proposition (depending on the definition of "god"). And indeed, the term atheism (not qualified by either strong or weak) does indeed imply nothing more or less than the lack of belief in...
  17. Kartari

    Are you an atheist? if so, What is your POV about God?

    Hi syncretic, I think part of the problem of terminology is a matter of words possessing multiple meanings. This leads to a considerable degree of fruitless discussions where posters are debating two entirely different points, yet at least one of them incorrectly thinks they are debating the...
  18. Kartari

    If atheism is a 'lack of a position', then it can't be the default position

    Hi viole, An interesting view. If you're correct, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the belief in mysterious powers (i.e. gods as in polytheism, spirits as in animism, etc.) is actually the natural adaption. Monotheism came later.
  19. Kartari

    If atheism is a 'lack of a position', then it can't be the default position

    Hi George, I agree with what you say about what matters. In logical discourse however, it makes more sense to me to at first assume the position with the least unfounded assumptions, and to work one's way up from there to support any given alternative view. In the case of gods, weak atheism...
  20. Kartari

    If atheism is a 'lack of a position', then it can't be the default position

    Hi buddhist, Well, maybe this depends on which meaning you have in mind for the term agnosticism. Concerning the agnostic position that knowledge of gods is both unknown and unknowable, I'd argue that this is indeed a faith-based assertion. The title of default position imo is best granted to...
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