Frank Apisa

Well...if you got 1000 people at random and asked them what word would they use to describe my take on the issue... I do not know if gods exist or not...

How about NOT CALLING THEM ANYTHING. Why not let each individual decide what, if any, descriptor they want to use? If a person describes him/herself t...

You certainly are entitled to agree with Dingo on this...but the thrust is wrong, no matter any technicalities of today's usage of the word "atheist."...

That IS wonderful gift he has, GMBA. I wish I had it, but I don't. I was composing a response to both your earlier posts, but found the damn thing was...

Thank you for your comments, Eric. Obviously, this discussion between Dingo and I has gotten out of hand. I've been relatively respectful towards him,...

Poor little Dingo. Still in his tantrum. You've got to learn how to control that. Same day you will be an adult...and people will be less forgiving of...

Could be. Do you think it would be more ethical to I lie and pretend I do not feel that way?

A bit of advice in return, Dingo. If you are going to lecture me on my supposed stupidity, best not to have YOUR very first word be "your"...when you ...

The question you asked of me...and which I was answering, was: "Do you mean that your aunt wishes to end her life because of resignation? What do you ...

PRECISELY!

You are still raging like an out-of-control two year-old! When you finally hit the "post comment" button do you drop to the floor and kick your heels ...

As you see, Dingo is so anxious to have me as a partner in philosophy, that even though he thinks I am a cretin, he cannot forsake his overly broad de...

Thank you for sharing all that. But the moment and atheist tells me that I, by definition, am an atheist...I want to tell that atheist to store the de...

Wow...major league triggered. I don't usually rattle people quite as much or as easily as I rattle you. Thanks, Buddy.

I have acknowledged that the debating atheists of the Internet have taken control of the word...and gotten some lexicographers to use a definition of ...

Still with all that childish, crass nonsense, Dingo? C'mon. Get control. Anyway...I'm here for ya. Until the sun goes nova...or I shed this moral veil...

Thanks, BC. I brought much of that up earlier. Right now we are not "debating" or "discussing." We are merely dealing with a temper tantrum on the par...

Still triggered. Oh, so, so sad. You really have to get that childish stuff under control, Dingo...unless, of course, you are a child. In any case, so...

Still all triggered, I see. Okay. Some people take longer than others to get their shit together. Anyway...about my supposed lack of intelligence and ...

Dingo...this is a philosophy forum. You ought really to act more like a philosopher...than a petulant adolescent. We would recognize that you are acti...

By "resignation" I meant to convey the notion of "being resigned to pain or death"...and she seems to be choosing death. That side of my family has al...

Great post, David. I have been attempting to make the case that the word "atheist" should be confined to people who "believe" (assert/guess both work)...

Good points, Eric. I'm not a fan of labels or descriptor in any case, but when an Internet atheist insists that I, and all babies, are atheist by defi...

Well...when I am wrong, I acknowledge that I am wrong...so... ...I thought you were an intelligent person, Dingo. My bad.

Actually, no...they are not. No...some of us are agnostics. I wouldn't be an atheist on a bet. You ought really to learn how to write that sentence co...

NO...I am not an atheist. And the more I speak with atheists in this forum...the less likely I am to ever want to be considered one. That was a truly ...

Babies are not born atheists...even if the atheists of the world are so hard up for greater numbers that they pretend everyone who lacks a "belief" in...

But here you are...having the conversation. It must draw you in more than you think. In any case...I am no more an atheist because I lack a "belief" t...

So...a lecture from you on how to post reasonably and politely...in a screed like this. Too funny for words. So...I take it that you are not going to ...

ALL atheists lack a "belief" that any gods exist...but not everyone who lacks a "belief" that any gods exist... ...is an atheist. Babies are not athei...

Thank you for all that, IBB. And despite my use of "tabula rasa" earlier...I agree with much of what you said. My point earlier was that babies are no...

Your very first post to me was condescending...and damn near every post since has had tinges of condescension rippling through it. That is one of the ...

Yes, make any arguments you want...that is your right. But as for questions and answers...we are done with you proposing questions to me without first...

No. Please answer my question.

Okay, but we are not going to make this an interrogation of me. You are not Socrates; I am not open to the Socratic method or a prosedutorial method. ...

My arguments are: 1) There is no need for the word "atheist" to be as broad as it is. If were less broad, people who do not want to be classified as a...

Hey, MadFool. (Back from the blackness of someone who has given up on life...and just wants to die.) As far as suicide is concerned, I agree in part w...

I have made my case for why what I prefer that "atheist" be reserved for people who either "believe" (guess) that there are no gods...or who "believe"...

I'll get back to you on this. Gotta go see my aunt in rehab. She is not cooperating enough with the staff to even sit up in bed. She's 93 and broke he...

You are reasoning in the conditional subjunctive (although not writing in it)...and anything derived from the conditional subjunctive is itself condit...

Hedonism, especially the "pleasure seeking" part of it...is so essential to human survival...that without it, there would be no human life. In fact, i...

One...there is NO WAY that I side with theists over atheists. No reasonable agnostic should...and I doubt very many do. I think that is a false impres...

Dingo...you sound like Trump. Everything everyone else is doing is substandard...and what you are doing is laudable. That is bunk...gratuitous bunk. T...

I would make a bet with anyone that a trip to a mall...asking Mr. or Ms. Everyman to hear MY take...and ask: Is that a theist, atheist or agnostic...t...

ANYTHING can be argued. And while I agree that the existence of any divinities is unknowable at the moment...how can anyone see into the future to KNO...

Anything can be argued, Frank. Right now it is unknown. Whether it will be knowable or not in the future...is pure speculation. If there is a GOD...th...

There is no way I can possibly know that the information is unknowable. It is unknown at this time...may be knowable at some future time. But I would ...

So...you are saying that most people who... 1) Lack a "belief" that any gods exist 2) Lack a "belief" that no gods exist 3) Do not see enough unambigu...

You have a point there...and I screwed up in what I wrote. I normally write, "A person who uses 'atheist' as a descriptor is almost always a person wh...

I agree with enough of what you say to simply say, "I agree." But, as the scorpion and the frog, I am slave to my You wrote, "Educated people are more...