Midnight Pete
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Anger, bitterness, and a whole lot of snark.
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Anger, bitterness, and a whole lot of snark.
dust1n
Zindīq
Sounds like you are angry, bitter and snarky towards atheism.
jarofthoughts
Empirical Curmudgeon
Really?
Watch this and tell me he is angry and bitter...
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YouTube - My Spirituality as an Atheist
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Why can't I meet an atheist like this guy?
If I did, I wonder if we could get along, how long the cordiality would last.
If I did, I wonder if we could get along, how long the cordiality would last.
Smoke
Done here.
Judging from your performance here, it would last until the first time he said something you didn't like.
ButTheCatCameBack
Active Member
and hawt hawt secks.
jarofthoughts
Empirical Curmudgeon
His views actually mirror my own fairly accurate.
A. Hughman has his own channel on Youtube and he has plenty of excellent videos up. I recommend checking them out.
Klaufi_Wodensson
Vinlandic Warrior
Just as the Pagans and Heathens wouldn't have died if they agreed to Christianity. At least a good majority of them didn't give in
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
You never know. We might get along just fine. We might just agree to disagree on certain things and get along just fine.
St Giordano Bruno
Well-Known Member
A perfect scientific pantheist like myself. I too look up in awe at the sky, especially when I was camping out in the desert in central Australia and the spectacular rock formation of Ularu was the most hardest hitting example of proof of the unfathomable antiquity of the Earth. It had millions of years of geological history screaming out at you.
monta
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Why do you want an atheist guy? Wouldn't it be easier to have a relationship with a fellow Christian?
Perhaps you could consider the fact that there may be a considerable difference between an angry person, and a person who finds you annoying. I am reminded of a character from a Douglas Adams book who, unbeknownst to himself, was the god of rain, rain worshipped him and followed him wherever he went, consequently he believed that it was always raining, another alternative would be a confirmation bias on your part, i.e you expect atheists to be angry and bitter and thus you either actively seek out the angry and bitter atheists or you only remember the ones that conformed to your preconceived archetype of atheism.
The third option of course is that all atheists are angry, which opens up the follow up debates of cause and effect (are they angry because they are atheists, or are they atheists because they are angry), there are other factors we should consider as well, such as is anger ever justified, is it ones moral duty to modify our actions to try and help a person deal with their anger, is it our moral duty not to try and help a person if they don't want our help.
It's a minefield.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Why do you want an atheist guy? Wouldn't it be easier to have a relationship with a fellow Christian?
Perhaps you could consider the fact that there may be a considerable difference between an angry person, and a person who finds you annoying. I am reminded of a character from a Douglas Adams book who, unbeknownst to himself, was the god of rain, rain worshipped him and followed him wherever he went, consequently he believed that it was always raining, another alternative would be a confirmation bias on your part, i.e you expect atheists to be angry and bitter and thus you either actively seek out the angry and bitter atheists or you only remember the ones that conformed to your preconceived archetype of atheism.
The third option of course is that all atheists are angry, which opens up the follow up debates of cause and effect (are they angry because they are atheists, or are they atheists because they are angry), there are other factors we should consider as well, such as is anger ever justified, is it ones moral duty to modify our actions to try and help a person deal with their anger, is it our moral duty not to try and help a person if they don't want our help.
It's a minefield.
For me, atheists are angry to show that they are atheists. The world is not the way they would like it to be and so to assert their identity as atheists they raise hell. I've never met a feminist who had no problem with the patriarchy or the plight of women. I've never heard of a PETA member who was indifferent to animal abuses or the existence of the fur trade.
Some people are defined by their anger.
monta
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So it is a confirmation bias.
monta
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Midnight Pete
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Yes, it is. A reponse to the confirmation biases of others, made about me and mine. In a more perfect world, we wouldn't do this to each other. Despite what you think, I don't indulge myself in hating people. I don't relish it. I don't clothe myself in it or celebrate it. Hate is toxic. Look what it did to Christopher Hitchens. Look what kind of shape he's in now after carrying all that hate around with him for so many years.
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monta
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I blame Obama for this.
monta
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I must be misunderstanding you, (my own biases in play no doubt) are you saying that you have a bias but you are going to roll with it?
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Yes.
I don't think it's realistic for a person to have no biases at all. Bias can be value-neutral as well as value-specific.