My Religion

[The Angry Intellect]

I haven't started a thread in a while, so here's one:

 

My religion is that there is no religion, there is no god of any kind.

 

I want to start this new religion on the basis that all religion is wrong.

 

I will call this new religion "Atheism".

 

And now I wait for the influx of negative votes, I'm sure the joke will go above most peoples heads, as per usual.

 

Let's see how long this thread lasts before the mods lock it, delete it, or all gang up to click the negative button hahaha.

[iNow]

Atheism is a religion in the same way that bald is a hair color and not collecting stamps is a hobby.

 

In short, it's not (unless you stretch the meaning of religion so much as to render it useless). Your premise is patently ridiculous on its face.

 

Do you have an actual point that may be interesting to explore here, or are you just attempting to be unnecessarily provocative?

 

I feel it's safe to assume the latter given your preemptive mention of neg reps and thread locking, but prefer to let you clarify first.

Edited February 29, 2016 by iNow

[The Angry Intellect]

hahahahahahahahahaha

 

ohhh man, nice one!

 

I love how you try explain it to me, "I'm sure the joke will go above most peoples heads, as per usual." - You're a perfect candidate for this statement of mine.

 

I hope you were just trying to entertain me and not actually trying to explain what Atheism isn't.

 

I didn't expect to get a good laugh off this one so quickly, thank you for that.

[iNow]

So, a case study in the subjective and context dependent nature of humor it is then.

 

In parallel, an observation regarding how the English language sometimes leads to silly paradoxes and apparent contradictions since the same word can mean different things at different times.

 

Not sure why you feel so proud and clever about this, but okay. Whatever floats your boat (which, this being a science forum, we all know is buoyancy).

Edited February 29, 2016 by iNow

[The Angry Intellect]

"Whatever floats your boat (which, this being a science forum, we all know is buoyancy)."

 

Who feels clever now, albeit funny as it was.

 

"a case study in the subjective and context dependent nature of humor it is then."

 

Yes, you could say that, another way to word it without using so many words in English is: "So it was a joke".

 

But whatever floats your gasoline.

[iNow]

So, this is about different densities then?

[The Angry Intellect]

Actually, on a side note, a lot of the people who claim to be Atheist are no different to that of anyone who follows religion.

 

I can't help but notice more & more people try and push Atheism on others in a way that would suggest Atheism is actually in it's self, a sort of religion, which is ironic.

 

This bugs me, because I would classify myself as an Atheist, however seeing how some people try to push it on others and explain things really does start to look like it's becoming some sort of religion, as opposed to the lack of.

 

It's confusing.

 

Anyway, God praise Allah.

 

May Jebus Crabst be with you all.

 

God bless America, but not anyone else.

Edited February 29, 2016 by The Angry Intellect

[iNow]

Some people are passionate about eradicating ignorance in all of its countless many forms from the world. Many religions and quite a sizable number of their basic tenets are validly categorized as such.

 

Some people are inspired by the prospect of educating others whenever an opportunity to do so gets presented.

 

Others value critical thinking and empirically based decision making and wish to live in a world where more of their fellow citizens do the same.

 

Still others are genuinely curious to better understand the position of people with whom they disagree, frequently using probing questions and Socratic challenges while doing so..

 

There are also others who experienced a cathartic sense of relief and freedom once untangling themselves from the shackles of faith and wish to share that transformative experience with others.

 

Reasons for the behavior of atheists are myriad and diverse, but atheism itself is not the driving motivator. Atheism is not a system of belief, set of values, and it tells you nearly nothing about the person to whom the label applies. Atheist literally just means not*theist. That is all.

 

Advocating that others consider letting go of Iron Age human mythologies in this modern world just as they themselves have done cannot be legitimately described as a religion, no matter how fervent, bombastic, or even how obnoxiously the person is while doing so.

[The Angry Intellect]

Agreed.

 

Do you spend some time looking up different words in English that could be used in any of your sentences to throw in here & there to try and appear smarter?

 

To me, it seems as if your trying too hard... I'm not picking on you but just couldn't help but notice you overly complicate what should be a simple sentence.

 

To quote some random scientific findings, and to hopefully further irritate you:

 

"We believe the underlying idea behind obfuscation is to muddle the truth," said Markowitz, the lead author on the paper. "Scientists faking data know that they are committing a misconduct and do not want to get caught. Therefore, one strategy to evade this may be to obscure parts of the paper. We suggest that language can be one of many variables to differentiate between fraudulent and genuine science."

 

"But the change the researchers found in the writing, however, is directly related to the author's goals of covering up lies through the manipulation of language."

 

I'm not suggesting you are more likely to be a liar or want to try and prove something via means of using words which some people may not see often or even understand but... I think those researchers are suggesting this.

 

 

Your like a car sales-man, trying to oversell something, which to me suggests I should ignore anything you say, you put too much effort into posts.

Edited February 29, 2016 by The Angry Intellect

[Phi for All]

Let's see how long this thread lasts before the mods lock it, delete it, or all gang up to click the negative button hahaha.

 

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Moderator Note

Not long when your obvious agenda is trolling and insults. This is a science discussion forum.