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As someone who is neither a theist nor an atheist, let me introduce two new categories of attitudes towards god(s):
(1) I am a theological noncognitivist. I have no idea what the term "god" means. For me it has no meaning.
(2) I am an apatheist. As Van Hegner said, "Apatheism considers the question of the existence or nonexistence of deities to be fundamentally irrelevant in every way that matters."
Note that presenting "evidence" for the existence of deities is like presenting evidence for the existence of extrumeranderquites. It's rather difficult to find any.
jdk
The English language can be fun sometimes because of all adjective descriptors for a simple, " I don't "
One word covers a whole bunch of why.
I prefer the slang dict. But, location, location, location. I figure into this. Thanks for the education.
As long as our abstract make-believes keep becoming realities we're all right.
Perhaps racism comes more from math than religion‽
Keep onE keepin onE, try some starfruit...
There is good reason that "abstract" and "make believe" should never be considered even similar. There is a reason that "abstract" not only applies to deep fundamentalist Art, and pure thought experiments, and not surprisingly as well as legal documents that feature only the most important, salient points. Abstract is the wheat after it has been extracted from the chaff. There is literally nothing more real and solid than "1 = 1". That will be true at least to the death of our Universe whether anyone or anything is around to perceive it or not.
1 + 1 Was made up, just like someday it may be used less...
And once again, one is one of something not one.
Actually that's only one way of looking at it which still isn't bad since Electricity, Hubble Space Telescope, the Internet, and even you and I were all "made up", too.
In the case of Mathematics however it is also correct to say that the progression of "1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 2, n...." wasn't just "made up"...it was simply recognized as having always existed apart from the conception or perception of it. The number Zero (0, naught) as a concept existed whether early Christians recognized it (instead of denying it even could exist) or not.
You can continue to deny it's validity if you choose but that is like denying the Sun exists as 1 Star, the center of 1 Solar System, in 1 Galaxy, in 1 Universe, and all the while you choose with 1 brain of 1 person. It's very real, Jamison, even if only as an abstract but utterly perfect concept and attribute that can be seen and applied literally everywhere.
I'm curious... have you ever seen --- Powers Of Ten --- ? I find it a mind-blowing study of perspective and progression as well as a mind-expanding view of our place in reality.
And what about famous paranormal stories like haunted castle-palaces, we have few aswell and famous is Rundale Palace ladies. All sceptics of invisible world(supernatural) somehow are not so sceptical once they visit such places.
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