Can you be an atheist and believe in logic and maths?

by passwordprotected 69 Replies latest jw friends

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    OnTheWayOut, you're admitting that your worldview is contradictory. If that unsettles you, I can understand that. But please, move beyond using loaded questions and informal fallacies.

    If you wish to presuppose I beat my wife, and you do so without any evidence, then you're taking a leap of faith. That being said, your argument against what I'm asking is turning into an ad hominem one and as a result is substantially weakened.

  • TheSilence
    TheSilence

    My point is that there is always a middle ground.

    Either you stopped beating your wife or you did not.

    I will assume you have not stopped beating your wife as I will assume you never started beating her.

    But to narrow someone to only be able to answer one extreme or the other of that statement gives the reader the incorrect assumption that you did, at some point, beat your wife. The same things happens when you narrow someone to only be able to answer in one extreme or the other with your statements.

    Look, I'm not an atheist. Nor am I a believer. I accept that I don't have the answers and that I don't need to have the answers to have a fulfilling life. Your argument just made absolutely no sense to me. Just as mine made no sense to you. Perhaps that simply means we are human and each have our own ways of seeing things.

    It's a tired, narrow argument that perhaps reflects the mindset of those who use it.

    If you mean that my mindset is tired and narrow... well, you are welcome to your opinion, I suppose :::smile:::

  • Terry
    Terry

    I don't believe in atheist, I've never had a person prove to me that they actually exist.

    Then who are you posting to on this board? Who are you arguing with? Who will read your statements?

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    Terry, who's talking about God? Btw, what's 1x1x1?

  • TheSilence
    TheSilence
    Btw, what's 1x1x1?

    It can be 1... or it can be a square block of wood.

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    My point is that there is always a middle ground.

    Sorry, there is no middle ground with logic.

    False/True

    On/Off

    etc.

    Otherwise, how would we know anything.

    I'm not convinced you guys have thought this through.

  • TheSilence
    TheSilence

    lol I have to go pick up my grandparents, run errands, go to doctor's appointments, and do much less esoteric things than this conversation involves. I hope you all enjoy the debate. ;)

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    It can be 1... or it can be a square block of wood.

    Does it ever equal 3?

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    lol I have to go pick up my grandparents, run errands, go to doctor's appointments, and do much less esoteric things than this conversation involves. I hope you all enjoy the debate. ;)

    It's been fun! I too have life to get back to. It's been illuminating also. Catch you guys in 6 months or so. Have a good one.

    Peace.

  • TheSilence
    TheSilence
    Sorry, there is no middle ground with logic.

    I don't even have time to point out... bah... good luck ;)

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