And his response to that was.........
“That’s one of the drawbacks of being in a public sphere: Sometimes you get quoted incorrectly. My own point of view is that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God.”[Source
And there's the answer. So you accept what he actually said...
I'm not talking about the state of mind and/or the thoughts of the experiencer, I'm referring to the actual reality of experiencer.
I've already read that explanation that you gave above and that's why I objected. You are using the word, "concept" in two different ways. You used it as being...
That's a contradiction. If there's no experiencer, then there is no experience. If awareness is being experienced, it was experienced by an experincer. And "awareness" itself, is a concept. So a "concept" is still there.
I can't say this about all religious and nonreligious minded people but from from all the ones that I've engaged with, whether in person or online, it's actually the opposite of what you've said. The religious ones are narrow minded that they think it's impossible for imaginative things to not...
The pure atheist night912 does not have a position about the possibility of a spiritual realm.
The pure agnostic night912 does not know if the spiritual realm is possible or impossible.
Yes, I agree with you on the part where you don't understand where there getting at. The indications of this is because what you're saying is not what the article is saying.
Yes, you did. You first applied it to atheist in post #1287.
Just in case you're not aware of it, #1287 comes before #1296.
From your comment in post #1297, it appears that you did understand the context of how I was using "pure."
If you don't know what it means for someone to "don't believe in something," then it shows that you are not qualified to engage in discussions about atheism and theism. Why should anyone care about your reasons for calling someone an atheist, theist, agnostic, or gnostic when you've demonstrated...
I was talking about within the context of what said regarding Adam and Eve. You said that most people would have made the same choice as them two, resulting in having a similar effect, experiencing evil in this life. And I was saying is that, in this life, those few who wouldn't have made the...
Regarding what? It's not alright to call me an agnostic when it comes to whether or not I'm a brain in a vat. I'm a gnostic when it comes to that.
And.....?
I'm still a pure atheist.
No, I didn't forget that she was a pure theist earlier in her life. That's why she was a pure theist back then and now she is a pure atheist. The positions of atheism and theism deals with the current state of belief, so someone being an atheist or theist is what they currently believe whether...
And those few who wouldn't have done the same is being equally punished. A system where everyone gets punished even if they were innocent, is not a just system.