Originally posted by Digi
See, you see a link to add to your favorites, I see a headache.
I'll be adding a website, not a webpage, to my favorites. The link I posted was for your benefit. I already know 90% of the information on that website.
Originally posted by Digi
Basically they just rename the same friggin' distinctions.
That's a pretty shitty slippery slope you just created for yourself because now you've just defined you and I as having the same metaphysical beliefs, conceded this entire argument by indirectly admitting that you're actually agnostic, and told about 200 years of many different philosophers that they made no progress.
I'm sure none of those three things you actually believe so I'll ignore your statement and consider it just frustration over philosophy.
Originally posted by Digi
Functionally, that list is equivalent to the one of mine we were using in the other thread. It's grouped differently, but it's all the same categories.
Not really. Your list (including the expanded version to include theisms...or was that my addition? I don't remember) included the span from agnosticism to atheism.
Originally posted by Digi
And they DO have to use the word atheism to describe what I am. They preface it with "agnostic," so even by your favored list it's a form of atheism and agnosticism. Like a weird hybrid that only serves to make our futile debate here a draw. lol.
But...it's a subcategory of agnosticism. "agnostic atheism" is a type of agnosticism, not atheism.
And it is not my "favored list". 😬
And, no, you've ignored the fact that it is a type of agnosticism, not a hybrid. There is no "draw" as I was right from the beginning. The only point of me continuing this discussion with you, despite how useless and futile it has been, was the hope that you'd come around.
I believe you did come around a post or two back, though. I can't be arsed to look. So right now, we are just masturbating the conversation, to steal a phrase from you.
Originally posted by Digi
Pretty much proof that it doesn't really matter what we call ourselves, just how those beliefs manifest themselves in our lives (which relates back to the inamilist quote I've been posting recently).
three things...
1. It does matter as I've pointed out recently. You care deeply for what label you have for yourself as do the extreme majority of people. It is messing with someone's self-identity of years to tell them that they and their associates have been mislabeling themselves.
2. I agree that it is more important for how those beliefs manifest themselves in our actions and thoughts: the labels don't really matter as long as you know what they actually are.
3. "inimalist" estahuh
Originally posted by Digi
I do not. Though I consider it only a matter of time before I'm confronted in some form. I'll be happy to try the experiment myself if I get the chance.
It's fun as hell. Much more fun than the "telemarketers".
I guess it is the equivalent of trolling in real life. hmm
Also, more in general to the thread...and anyone can answer...
Have you lost any friends (good ones) or family members because you "came out" as an atheist?
I can say that I lost one good friend, over the years, when he found out I was a Mormon. I am quite certain atheists experience this as well. Share your stories, basically, on what the world did or did not do when you spoke up.