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You complain about my 'sad' use of the point system in the same post you happily (😜) justify your use the point system. Please don't be a hypocrite, it's beneath you.

Don't play the martyr. I didn't neg rep you because you want beer to be legal and hard drugs to be illegal. Not necessary to keep quoting yourself. We all saw it the first time.

What is the one source? I ask because I neg repped you when you pitied me. That means there are at least two sources.

The number of negative votes with no discussion is minuscule, and typically self-evident.

You can stick your pity in your bum.

It was said in jest, but only partly so. Saying "...there is a steady migration. Let's put them to work..." sounds like forced labor. You've got women and children, people unskilled and illegal, with their own dreams and plans. What makes you think they want (or would be allowed) to stay in the desert, some of them in Mexico, under unknown conditions? Unless you've done some kind of manpower study of illegal immigrants and the legal ramifications, you are just daydreaming.

I'm not sure about the part where we Mexica immigrants slaves, but it's an interesting idea.

If Roe is overturned that will no longer be the case, and many states will indeed resort to the supernatural detection of souls. Unfortunately if you are making the laws you are under no obligation provide evidence the fetus has a soul; you simply claim it is so.

In that case you are only trying to limit what others can do for their own protection. I could see you trying to protect yourself from outside threats, but it seems rather paternalistic to decide you have to protect others from their own weak characters. My own opinion is that we should err on the side of allowing people to make their own decisions, rather than making those decisions for them.

Personally I'd rather decide for myself whether or not to smoke pot, even though that might then make me have to decide for myself whether or not to do a harder drug. At some point we have quit depending on our mothers, um, I mean our government and fellow citizens, to make sure we don't touch the hot stove.

I'd rather it not be done globally. I almost never sign out and prefer the simplicity of being logged in whenever I visit the site.

Just because it doesn't look like a plan to you doesn't mean it is not there. You cannot even know the plans of politicians and business leaders who are people around you. What makes you think you would see the plan of God?

She did. What you see is exactly the plan.

Yep, that's it. We discussed it at our weekly meeting and decided on this course of action for obvious reasons. I'm sure you've already heard from our representatives.

Don't keep us hanging. Who are they?

I'm not sure we are at odds. The 'belief' of yours I was referring to was your belief that the definition encompassed your views (rejection of practiced religious beliefs). Just as a Catholic might have the 'belief' that the definition of Catholicism encompasses their views (the acceptance of the use of birth control).

Cool.

a·the·ist /ˈāTHēəst/ Learn to pronounce noun a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2][3][4] Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist.[5][6] In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[1][2][7][8] Atheism is contrasted with theism,[9][10] which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.[10][11][12] The etymological root for the word atheism originated before the 5th century BCE from the ancient Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning "without god(s)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism I fail to see the distinction. You both either don't know or don't care what it means to be what you claim to be.

Yes, I picked up on that from your previous comment. Just like the Catholic who thinks it is okay to take birth control. People tend to redefine words so that they encompass their own beliefs.

No. Is karma a god?

Yes, but the something is a god, not something like karma. They may be unscientific but you don't have to be scientific, or rational, to be an atheist.

Whenever a theist around here questions what atheists believe, of if they believe gods don't exist, the usual response of the membership is to say something along the lines of "atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of gods, no more, no less". So while you, Phi and others may have your own personal beliefs (sort of like most theists do), I am of the opinion that strictly speaking there is no contradiction in an atheist believing in or practicing religion, as long as they don't believe in the existence of a god or gods.

I think the answer is yes. Kind of like being against sugar, but still eating candy as long as the candy is made with aspartame.

I'm no expert, but as far as I know there is no God in Buddhism.