Its a good thing humanity is not confined by dictionaries. We also have encyclopedias:
Theism | religion
atheism | Definition, Philosophy, & Comparison to Agnosticism
It seems the word 'theism' and 'atheism' may be a bit more nuanced than the dictionary would have us believe.
Its almost like...
I state my disappointment at the thread devolving into semantics and you respond by doubling down.
If you were hoping for an apology you'll have to do much better than that.
So, despite the evidence you present here to the contrary, I still believe in the self-indulgent Paarsurrey.
I consider the concept of a heavenly afterlife to be somewhat hedonistic.
I can't say that makes religious people more or less hedonistic than those that aren't. Then again, I have a hard time delineating who is or is not truly 'religious' as some people who fit the classic definition in my...
Sounds like confirmation bias to me. Having a tricked out Subaru doesn't mean you can drift. I assure you, using my mind is not as simple as using yours.
If you are really having trouble determining what you believe, I advise you to take as long as you need to figure it out. There is no deadline or time limit on providing yourself the answer. If one is not apparent, then keep thinking and feeling and experiencing life and you'll get there. Don't...
Paarsurrey attempts to fit atheism into his own personal model of how thoughts fall together, then attempts to force this model on the atheists he encounters. "I believe in X, you believe in Y." I would assume this is to perpetuate the notion that both are equal in practice, and can therefore be...
While I would agree that these situations are different, I would still say assigning the quality of evil to either one would be totaly subjective, and more to the point, arbitrary.
Why does the person defending themselves have any more right to kill than anyone else? If I kill a police officer...
And I assume that you are causing stress from the following:
So, what you think is going to happen is that the piezo is going to be put under stress by water which expands due to heat from the electricity produced by the piezo. Do I have that straight?
Please, please, please tell me that's...
There really is nothing standing in the way of believing anything that we don't put in the way ourselves, as individuals. We decide all of the standards personally, and take outside suggestion whenever it suits us and never when it doesn't. There is no way to enforce any sort of universal...