Taps voted!
Just saw your tagline. I love it!
Some pottery was made just to be broken.
? ok so im sure theres some deep hidden meaning there dude, but whatever it is, it sailed right over my head
I had to think twice about it as well. Maybe he means that to be an athiest is a rigid viewpoint to hold and that anything rigid, like a piece of pottery, is vulnerable to being shattered ... and is even destined to be, as in Greek marriage celebrations. Just keep the Bostik close to hand!
theist is a rigid viewpoint. Atheism describes what you DON'T believe, not what you do. In a rational world, it wouldn't be considered extreme.
I would argue that atheism is a rigid viewpoint. To my mind, it is an absolute position based on the notion that all the necessary knowledge is there to come to such a conclusion. As human beings, I don't think we have that knowledge ... yet, and therefore would not think it rational to absolutely exclude the possibility of a force which brings forth life - whatever that may be. Just my personal opinion which I didn't mean to offend others with who might hold a different view. I was merely trying to suggest what Joebwan meant in his some pottery is made to be broken post, which I took to refer to Sirazimuth's "born once atheist" tag line.
Incidentally, I am reminded of your gaming experience in your previous tag line, which I forgot about in quickly composing my last post in response to another Tekcoinista. It occurs to me now that you would be ideal to spearhead the promotion of Tekcoin to the gaming world if you were inclined to do so.
I am still involved with GameCredits, though to a lesser extent than I was due to too many projects. It would be a conflict of interest, though if you were to contact them, they might be amenable to a partnership. They're good people, and pretty driven.
On the subject of atheism, we should probably continue this elsewhere. But your conception of atheism is basically what theists say about us, not the actuality in most cases. But I need to clarify that a bit, because there is a subset of atheists who state it as a positive belief. Religious types have dubbed this "strong" atheism, vs what it seems most of us hold to, which they dub "weak" atheism.
In my arrogant opinion, "weak" atheism is by far the stronger position. Not because it's a positive belief, but because it is not. Our stance is not that we believe there is no god(s), but that we do not believe that there is based on the available evidence. "strong" atheism, to me, is just as much a religious stance as Christianity or Islam would be.
Weak atheism does not deny the possibility of deities, it just doesn't accept ordinary proofs for extraordinary claims.
That's all pretty general. Personally, I've no problem with the idea of a god or gods, but I see no convincing evidence. Religion, on the other hand, I take a strong and oppositional stand to. It makes broad, unprovable claims, and demands that those who adhere to it AND THOSE WHO DON'T accept it. Even, often especially, when those claims are contradicted by fact. And they're willing to kill over it.
I'll kill in defense of my person, my family, possibly even my nation were it actually invaded. I'll never even consider killing because a man believes something differently than I would. Depending on what that belief is, I might think him a fool. I might even say it, especially if he's not a fool generally. I'll talk about it, but I won't kill for it.
I can also state as fact that ALL current theistic religions are false. I base this on their own claims. Not all of them, some of their claims are either good morals or at least a bit of wisdom that is applicable regardless of derivation. But particularly, these two. That there is a god who wishes to be worshipped, and that he/she/it is the god of their religion.
Were these two things true, and based on their further claim that their sky daddy is all powerful, then there would be NO POSSIBILITY of plural, contradicting religions.
I could go on for pages on the particulars, but this is a thread about TEK