Frank Apisa

So you also are saying that you use "atheist" as a descriptor, but you do NOT "believe" there are no gods...and you think that the likelihood that at ...

Yup, so I say. No it is not wrong. I have never known or known of ANY person who uses the descriptor "atheist" who did not either "believe" there are ...

Yes, again.

One...you did dodge it...and continue to do so. Two...okay, we'll leave. The next time I bring it up with someone else, I will be able to make the sam...

The notion of anarchy...and the notion of libertarianism (which inevitably will lead to anarchy)...are both abominations to civilization and to true d...

I cannot speak for every Agnostic, but for me...that is not so at all. There are people who "believe" there is a GOD...at least one god. i am not one ...

As I said (and which you dodged)... ...a "belief" that there are no gods...or a "belief" that it is more likely that there are no gods than that there...

That was supposed to read, I also acknowledge there is nothing wrong with "believing" (or blindly guessing) in either direction.

We all know what this is about. Here is what I have to say about it: ATHEISM is as much a product of "belief" as is THEISM. Theists "believe" there is...

Nope. Not even close. You still haven't answered the questions. NO ATHEIST ever does...because the answer is apparent. EVERY person who uses the word ...

ANYONE else who identifies as an "atheist"...I ask you that same question.

I have mentioned something on several occasions here in the forum...that I have mentioned in many other forums (fora) where I have participated...to w...

By no means is Biden even close to perfect. But unless something very unfortunate happens, it will come down to a choice between Trump and Biden...and...

Stop with all the labels and descriptors, because all that ever happens when labels/descriptors are used are endless argument about what the label or ...

He was finishing a TV bit. Have you ever done TV? The end of one of those things usually requires a fade out of some sort...and the "talent" is told t...

"That guy" (Joe Biden) will "run the country" 1000 times more effectively than the classless incompetent now attempting to do so.

Yes to everything you said here but especially the notion that ANY government supported education should require very good grades from a recipient. I ...

Yeah, at my age...I'm not going to see it. I hope future generations do...and that it happens soon. It is long over-due in America. I use ear-drops th...

My own view is that Joe Biden is the BEST possible candidate TO BEAT TRUMP. There are several other candidates who far better meet my personal criteri...

My experience indicates that anyone and everyone who uses the word "atheist" to describe him/herself...REGARDLESS OF HOW IT IS DEFINED IN SOME DICTION...

I suspect I agree with you strongly, but the wording was a bit ambiguous. I suspect what you are saying is that the atheistic claim that atheism IS JU...

Any chance I can cop a baggie of your stuff? Sounds to me like dynamite shit.

I am not afraid of atheism...AND I DO NOT CONSIDER IT SOMETHING NEGATIVE. I meet several times each year in NYC with a group of 7 people...all of whom...

The reality is that I do care that SOME atheists insist I am an atheist by dint of an inconsistent and self-serving "definition." I will not accept it...

I, for one, am not. looking for that. I realize there are theists (people who assert they "believe" there is at least one god or who assert they "beli...

My claim (that I am NOT an atheist) does not fail. But you are dug in...and nothing can be done about it. I'll just laugh at the need of atheists to i...

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deiti...

Yeah...and that does NOT negate anything I have said. Nor does it make anything I have said "embarrassing myself." But you refusing to acknowledge tha...

The words "belief system" is easily understood to be correct as used in my comment, but if you want to take exception to the inclusion of "system" to ...

I, too, am 83...and I wish the Democrats had chosen someone younger. But in my opinion, Biden is fit enough for the job. And after the horror of the a...

Learn what words mean. You are both embarrassing yourselves. With that comment...YOU embarrassed yourself. So how about digging out. Instead of just s...

SOME dictionaries may describe it that way...but dictionaries do not actually define words, Baden=, they merely tell us how the word is usually used. ...

Zero evidence says nothing about whether gods can or cannot exist. As for "zero possibility" ...why did you make that up? That is an absurd, and faile...

Atheism is NOT a religion...but it most assuredly is a "belief system"...the "tails" side of the coin of which theism is the "heads" side. Atheists li...

In matters like this... ...we should all drop the labels. The labels are worthless, because they mean different things to different people It is okay ...

I did not say that you either do not understand or are unethical, Aussie. I said, "If you are not able to acknowledge the false dichotomy either becau...

You are still missing my point. I hope my answer to this question makes it clear. There is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between a "belief" and an "opinion...

You wrote: " Either you can trust your senses (to at least some reasonable degree) and understand the world around you...or all perception is falsehoo...

You made an assumption on what I meant that was incorrect. I am not looking for certainty in all things...even in questions about whether at least one...

Nothing you have said here impacts on the proposition, "Either at least one god exists...or no gods exist." This has become discussion by scattergun. ...

Okay. But if you were saying, "So far no one has been able to convince you that World War II actually occurred"...where would that leave us? OF COURSE...

That is not what I said. Any estimates about the existence or non-existence of any gods is no better than a coin flip. But one or the other has to be ...

Okay. And thank you for replying. To the former: It may seem to be...but what I am asserting is so. To the latter...the question: I'm not sure what "a...

I will give you the answer you want...and then give the answer I would give if I were not being accommodating, Samuel. #1! Now...the answer I would mu...

I will answer your question seriously this time, Samuel. But in order to do so, I must take issue with the word "believe" here. My answer would be, "N...

I apologize for this next response in advance, but these are desperate days, and ...well... If you are in a room with many others and all of you perce...

I agree with unenlightened. Don't even need a desert for this. On a hot day with a stretch of roadway in front on you...almost everyone looking will s...

Just want to share an interesting (in my opinion) take on this definition thingy. In another forum I just used the expression "...goddam rain"...and w...

Left this out of my first comment: This is true for everything. X either exists or does not exist. It is a mutually exclusive proposition.

You wrote: A: God exists. B: God doesn't exist. C: God may or may not exist. Some people believe neither A nor B, because they believe C. NO ONE has t...