Comment on Anon ends racism

• stembolts@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you. But atheists are too narcissistic for me, I’m agnostic.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    atheists are too narcissistic

    Do you mean arrogant? Because I don’t think we’re narcissistic anymore than we’re self-assured

    I’m not gonna try to convince you to change your mind, but I will say that a lot of us atheists hold similar beliefs in a strict sense within the scientific framework that makes us agnostics with every unknown. I think you’ve heard of people saying sarcastically that they’re agnostic of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, right?

    In a practical sense we simply don’t need to pretend that we need absolute certainty with an omniscient-level of understanding to read between the lines of the reality that’s right in front of us. Take that as arrogance if you must, but there’s reason behind being this self-assured that doesn’t need to be conflated with a sweeping personality trait

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    • stembolts@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the two terms have some overlap, I mean narcissistic as in having such a belief in the self to not only declare that there is no evidence for a god, but to state that there is evidence for the lack of a god, something that is not possible to prove.

      But I take your meaning, arrogance is a perfectly good term for what I mean. So I agree with you, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with being an aethiest, after all awthiests are probably right. I’m just not certain enough to join the club, but maybe I just lack self confidence.

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do your farts smell nice?

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    • stembolts@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really, high protein diet makes them pretty unpleasant.

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      • Sentrovasi@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, you literally called the guy stupid and criticised the post for a "complete lack of logic": I agree with the other people that you write incredibly obnoxiously, especially if that's what you regard as "polite". Unfortunately claims of rationality can go hand-in-hand with a pseudo-intellectualism that is really grating when done in earnest.

        Maybe rather than consider everyone else racist, you might do a bit of self-reflection and consider why people who clearly acknowledge that the main post is racist (see every other upvoted comment) still consider your post worse than the racism you're criticising.

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  • Obonga@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agnosticism and atheism are not of the same kind. There exist agnostic or gnostic atheists and there exist agnostic or gnostic theists. From what you write, you are an agnostic atheist: You do not believe in a god, yet you can not be sure that there is none.

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    • stembolts@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. But that I can compare the ways of thinking that lead to agnosticism/aetheism as I observe them.

      At some point in my life I walked away from religion and thought, “Hm, I’m not really an atheist because I can’t disprove the existence of a god but I also think the idea of god as most religions present it is silly. I guess I’m nothing.” Then a few years later I found out there was a word for that.

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you think God’s real it’s because you’re a baby

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  • Zekas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t, I just think the kind of pseudo-intellectualism this guy was putting out was really typical of them. It’s like vegans, they’re right and insufferable about it.

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    • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      oh I didn’t actually read his post because some dipshit boop boop deleted it

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      • Zekas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ye I figured that

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