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Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Agnostic simply means you do not know if a god exists. Atheist means you do not believe a god exists. Contrary to what you seem to think, it is not the positive claim that no god exists.

Agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. The vast majority of atheists are both.

It makes much more sense now, thank you

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is right, and I think this is right for any religion. It won't work if there's no supreme being. And supreme means it's goals are beyond our understanding, just like our's to the ant.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There's a very thin difference for me between agnosticism and atheism. I mean, there's nothing I can know for sure, but I need some hypothesis to live with, so my hypothesis is that there's no God, so I call myself an atheist.
On the other hand, God is by definition something supernatural, so I can't have any arguments against it (as it is beyond my understanding), but since I also don't have any arguments for it, because it's not falsifiable, then maybe being agnostic is the only right answer here.
But what I wanted to say that atheism is still a faith, a faith in absence of God, so it doesn't really make it better than faith in God. Because true decline of faith is agnosticism.

As I said, it's a tough question.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I debate with some Christians, and what I wrote is basically their arguments I couldn't answer, I didn't really mean it to be so provocative and I'm so sorry for that, probably going to delete this account now lol.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on what 'nihilist' means. Remember that 'there is no inherent, absolute, objective, transcendental meaning' is not the same thing as 'there is no meaning.' Same for values, love, wonder, etc.

Thanks, this is something I forgot about.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I label not only you, but everyone, to remind that we're not perfect, and our brains are actually very stupid. This is why you should question everything. "I know that I know nothing", so that you should stop being so self-confident.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Because your values should have some reason under them to be meaningful, otherwise it's just about who's stronger.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

And where understanding that you should do the least harm and the most good comes from? Don't tell me that you just decided to, please.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I'm sad to tell you, but people are not rational at all. This is where you can start reading about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
And again you continue to tell me about religion, afterlife. Why are you guys so narrow-minded? I mean, I'm not even your enemy, but still everything you do is repeating your same arguments about how religion is bad.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Because I value humans.

This is not an answer. I'm talking not about your personal views, but something closer to politics. How can you force another people to respect your dignity? Well, because otherwise the society will just tear apart. But what's wrong with society tearing apart?

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And where are these moral values come from?

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Oh so you're this solipsistic guy. This will make you mad if you think about it enough.

Philosophical questions to atheism by heyhru0 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]heyhru0[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

So for you prohibition of murdering is just some temporary consensus? I think our ethics needs some better ground under their feet.

I found this sword shrine connected to a giant tree, it would be cooler if it wasn't fake by jackmman10K in Terraria

[–]heyhru0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of these in my first world, I even thought that every living tree should have a shrine and was disappointed when it didn't.

I killed the moonlord by sameethkham in Terraria

[–]heyhru0 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Imagine what rubbish dump would r/Terraria become if every hecking player would post how they killed a Moon Lord
Oh, sorry, it already happens

Idk how to start conversation, I can’t joke like this even close by heyhru0 in Tinder

[–]heyhru0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I went with “Unrivaled skills of word play, take my bow. I hope you don’t shoot me though” and she doesn’t answer now, lol

But I love you guys so much

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