Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by ben_che on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:16PM
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That's rather hypocritical though, right? Athiests measure religious people with their conceptions of science and reason, why can't it go the other way?
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Hitchen's Razor - "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:46PM
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Like Hitchen's Razor?
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by cholantesh on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:18AM
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I try not to police grammar, but it ought to be Hitchens' or Hitchens's. On a side note, he is sorely missed in a lot of contemporary conversations.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:36PM
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I agree. I did not agree with everything he wrote, but everyone of his articles were insightful and I came out a better person for having read and thought about them.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by chrishacken on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:25PM
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Speaking entirely for myself here as an atheist, I think most of us just want to be left alone to believe what we believe without having religious people constantly approaching us with "Well, you don't know Jesus, that's why you believe X,Y, Z." As if they're somehow certain that a God exists and that we simply aren't enlightened enough to see it.
I agree, but having some close Christian friends, I can tell you that some of them indeed are certain about some things. That's what they call faith.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by bobwaycott on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:17PM
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Well, the devout most decidedly are certain a god exists and that everyone else aren't enlightened enough to see it—where it is the given devout person's chosen god.