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Offline vooke

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What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« on: July 27, 2017, 01:30:42 PM »
2 Timothy 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Offline Kichwa

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2017, 01:39:56 PM »
When it comes to religion, I do not take people for their word. Most people know what is safe to say in what environment.
"I have done my job and I will not change anything dead or a live" Malonza

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2017, 03:09:54 PM »
The answer to the question do you live your life as if there is a deity or not? tells us more about the person than these tags ever could.
"I freed a thousand slaves.  I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2017, 03:38:24 PM »
These people made a grown man weep by steadfast refusal to accept his self identification as a Jew. 


The moral of the story?  Labels will leave you in tears with no legal recourse.
"I freed a thousand slaves.  I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

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Offline Kichwa

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2017, 03:42:54 PM »
The reality is that everybody is conflicted on these issues, even those who profess they are not.

Quote from: Vintage Windy City Assassin on July 27, 2017, 03:38:24 PM
These people made a grown man weep by steadfast refusal to accept his self identification as a Jew. 


The moral of the story?  Labels will leave you in tears with no legal recourse.
"I have done my job and I will not change anything dead or a live" Malonza

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2017, 04:03:14 PM »
Kichwa, I agree with you. I'm not willing to say more than that.

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2017, 12:53:03 AM »
Uncertainty, unbelief within a faith can be quite unsettling no doubt.
2 Timothy 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2017, 12:55:06 AM »
Quote from: Vintage Windy City Assassin on July 27, 2017, 03:09:54 PM
The answer to the question do you live your life as if there is a deity or not? tells us more about the person than these tags ever could.
You are running away from tags into definitions, which are in and of themselves tags. What exactly is 'living your life as if there is a deity'? And what do you mean by deity?
2 Timothy 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

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Re: What exactly are you, Atheist,Agnostic, or Theist
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2017, 01:12:54 AM »
Quote from: vooke on July 29, 2017, 12:55:06 AM
Quote from: Vintage Windy City Assassin on July 27, 2017, 03:09:54 PM
The answer to the question do you live your life as if there is a deity or not? tells us more about the person than these tags ever could.
You are running away from tags into definitions, which are in and of themselves tags. What exactly is 'living your life as if there is a deity'? And what do you mean by deity?

A deity? A god or goddess.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity

Living your life as if there is a deity?  That means you live your life as if an iteration of the putative entity whose definition is provided above exists.  The converse is you live your life as if there is no such entity, or that such a putative entity is irrelevant.

"I freed a thousand slaves.  I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

Harriet Tubman
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