Re: Objects and Relations

On 18 fév, 13:34, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >>As a devout lifelong atheist, I feel I have to step up and defend my
> >>irrationality here. Atheism is at least as irrational as any other
> >>religion or superstition. Some argue it is the least rational of
> >>religions because it doesn't offer the emotional crutch of promised
> >>salvation, ritual or social interaction.
>
> > When I walk, I do not need crutches. I do not consider my
> > walking without crutches to be the least rational way of walking. Draw
> > the obvious conclusion about god.
>
> I have no conclusions about god. I believe there is no god. I have no
> evidence to support my belief, and I don't need any. I simply take it on
> faith.
Question: considering the irrationality ainherent value about conclusions about god/nogod?
> >>True objectivity demands agnosticism in the absense of empirical evidence.
>
> > Occam's Razor: you want me to take a notion of yours seriously?
> > Show some proof. Other than that, I can not be bothered.
>
> > For example, I am not a unicorn-agnostic, a fairy-agnostic, or a
> > vampire-agnostic.
>
> Neither am I, but I have at least one friend who is an absolute
> empiricist. If one asked him whether unicorns exist, he would admit "I
> do not know". He is extremely intelligent and very effective.
In some kind elitist inspired belief., BB has persuaded himself that he should be surrounded by friends who should be as enlightenned or intelligent as he. He is so convinced of that he has trouble understand that the friend might just be an idiot. In ignorant's self contemptuous circle, empiriscism is often excuse for lack of proof based scientifc application, as Openmindedness if often an oportunity to express irrationally based absurdity.

If such friend can no synthetize the knowledge that mythological creatures are indeed created by man and can not draw a direct conclusion from it an answer such as *I don't think so* or a milder *probably not* instead of *I do not know*, then chances are such friend is just wrong...

[Snipped limited interest belief #23 from BB] Received on Sun Feb 18 2007 - 14:52:23 CET