Atheist Dogma/Creed

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I love it when ultra-orthodox religious Atheists argue about church doctrine. Martin Luther is laughing his ass off right now.

Wasn't he that pervert that got caught nailing the church mouse whore?

That's a pretty good proof of the non-existence of God right there.

[JimC]

I love it when ultra-orthodox religious Atheists argue about church doctrine. Martin Luther is laughing his ass off right now.

Wasn't he that pervert that got caught nailing the church mouse whore?

That's a pretty good proof of the non-existence of God right there.

Anyway, Rationalia mostly contains ultra-unorthodox atheists...

[DaveDodo007]

Oh dang! Does this mean that we'll have to kill all the A+ lot as well as the religionist when the First Great Atheist Holy War begins?

I'm up for it, lock and load.

[Brian Peacock]

"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by an ecclesiastical court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security priory to the Lyme Regis underground. Today, still wanted by the Pope, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A++Team."

[orpheus]

(Uncle Orph'sTM popcorn - "Grade A±" )

[cowiz]

To my memory, this has the be the first ever schism in the skeptic/atheism movement. I challenge anyone to think of another.... oh wait!

[Pappa]

Oh dang! Does this mean that we'll have to kill all the A+ lot as well as the religionist when the First Great Atheist Holy War begins?

I'm up for it, lock and load.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7728

[colubridae]

Me being an atheist means I don't have a belief in god(s). End of. You can't make me part of your movement or community because of something I don't believe. I don't want a credo or a platform and I don't want any priests. I choose who my community is (shockingly, not all atheists) and what I believe or support, and those things can change if I feel like it. Social justice and human rights are things I support but they have fuck all to do with atheism. For fucks sake it's amazing how people pat themselves on the back for "breaking free from the chains of religion" just so they can make shinier versions

I don't call myself an atheist, it's a label and I don't like labels and I think that I am so many things that identifying with just one of those things is,in my eyes, detrimental.

anti-Labelist

[colubridae]

deja vu......

Did you know...?

There is a 'jamais vu'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu



There is a 'presque vu'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue
Wiki is wrong I think. presque vu means 'out-of-the-corner-of-the-eye' but when you look closely what you thought you saw was not there.

call svarty

[rasetsu]

I used to experience jamais vu with words. I distinctly remember a time in the fourth grade when, after thinking about the word multiple times, I couldn't figure out what the word "the" meant.

[Svartalf]

I love it when ultra-orthodox religious Atheists argue about church doctrine. Martin Luther is laughing his ass off right now.

Wasn't he that pervert that got caught nailing the church mouse whore?

That's a pretty good proof of the non-existence of God right there.

Anyway, Rationalia mostly contains ultra-unorthodox atheists...

You shall worship no god before me for they don't exist.

[orpheus]

I used to experience jamais vu with words. I distinctly remember a time in the fourth grade when, after thinking about the word multiple times, I couldn't figure out what the word "the" meant.

I've experienced that also. It's not hard to induce: just say any word over and over, and eventually it loses meaning. One of my favorite novelists, Russell Hoban, said it well in Amaryllis Night and Day: "Names are pretty useless, really. If you say the name of anything ten or twenty times it scatters and falls away and the thing that’s named stands there all naked and unknowable."

The phenomenon can be quite frightening when it takes on bigger proportions. Years ago, on my way to work, I emerged from my usual subway station in midtown Manhattan, and realized that although I knew all the buildings and streets in that neighborhood, everything was in some weird way entirely unfamiliar. I was paralyzed, because I couldn't navigate at all. I just stood there not knowing which way to go. A very odd feeling. Eventually it abated, but it was quite alarming while it lasted.

[Bella Fortuna]

I used to experience jamais vu with words. I distinctly remember a time in the fourth grade when, after thinking about the word multiple times, I couldn't figure out what the word "the" meant.

I've experienced that also. It's not hard to induce: just say any word over and over, and eventually it loses meaning. One of my favorite novelists, Russell Hoban, said it well in Amaryllis Night and Day: "Names are pretty useless, really. If you say the name of anything ten or twenty times it scatters and falls away and the thing that’s named stands there all naked and unknowable."

The phenomenon can be quite frightening when it takes on bigger proportions. Years ago, on my way to work, I emerged from my usual subway station in midtown Manhattan, and realized that although I knew all the buildings and streets in that neighborhood, everything was in some weird way entirely unfamiliar. I was paralyzed, because I couldn't navigate at all. I just stood there not knowing which way to go. A very odd feeling. Eventually it abated, but it was quite alarming while it lasted.

When I've experienced that I've had the same feeling (though not as dramatically as you describe above). I felt very... untethered and distant from everything else. In a minor way that's what I feel like when it happens with words.

[Brian Peacock]

That's interesting. If, for example, you say "shoe" 100 times and then look at your hand....













...nothing much happens. Isn't that remarkable?

[DaveDodo007]

Oh dang! Does this mean that we'll have to kill all the A+ lot as well as the religionist when the First Great Atheist Holy War begins?

I'm up for it, lock and load.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7728

Boo Hiss, I'm aware of this thread.

Are my heroics so easily forgotten. I sent the elite atheist assassination commando squad round to do Stein in. OK I realize there was some controversy because a few innocent ratskep members where killed in the crossfire. Lets face it even their mothers didn't miss them too much, it was just theists trying to create drama to blacken our noble cause. Still where is my medal of honour.