Atheism

There is no rule about frequency of posts, either officially or unofficially. Trashing a thread simply because there is a pause makes no sense at all.

You come to that conclusion from a kind suggestion?

Maybe if you showed a more frequent effort to post on this thread they would as well.

That was not meant as sarcasm but I can see how one could take it that way!

This was clear in Kris' beginning post, if you bothered to read it. Perhaps you have noticed by now, if you ever started a thread, that the time for changing the title is tiny.

She is a gentle woman who has been chased out of here by discouragement combined with little time. Some of us are angry about it on her behalf. Some of us just want to talk.

You want to start a thread to surplant this one? What a ******* putz.

Review the more than five thousand posts and tell me more.

As you know, I know there is no rule, but trashing lives.

One woman's trash is another man's treasure!

We all do not see things the same way and I do not see a need to put people down but when someone is speaking about something that is not true, I do think that it should be called out!

You seem as though you have behavior problem! have you thought about seeking help for it?
It seems mainly emotional and you are probably already set in your ways so I would not worry about it!

There are other threads to engage spendius and lonus and in fact you already dialog with them over there. Why put all that **** here, where nobody wants it?

Cute.

Are you four yet?

Do the two of you follow each other from thread to thread? If so that is cool!

I'm sorry to hear that you do not care for Spendius or Ionus but they are a part of your world here on the internet and it is your choice to either engage them or ignore them.

It is good to see you here engaging with other atheist maybe you will start engaging in the type of conversations you think this thread should be about and others will respond to your post.

If you pop in and out from time to time to only talk about the good old days of this thread I can not see how that will get any where close to where you would like to see this thread go.

Maybe you can start sharing your view points that you use to and others will respond accordingly.

To think that nobody wants to read Spendius, Ionus mine or anyone else s replies is just a little bit disingenuous don't you think? Exactly who is nobody?

I'm nobody. Anyone else want to confess?

I would not consider you to be a nobody but maybe this will give us a clear view of the people who do not like Spendius Ionus and me!

Me . . . i'm somebody!

Just ask the little dogs, here . . .

OK ed--let's get real eh? Enough of the ****.

What does an atheist tell a kid who asks him/her "why did you bring me into this world of suffering and pain when I didn't ask for it?"

And if atheists don't believe in free will, which they can't, how do they distinguish between good and bad behaviour and reward the one and punish the other? On what grounds does a materialist punish people, sometimes with death, when their behaviour is solely determined by their physical conformation and the effect of the environment upon it, neither of which is their fault?

Christians have an answer to both these very important questions. What is the atheist's answer?

I am not sure where you are going with this Spendius because Islamist have answers to the questions too!

I am going into the realm that these atheists continually demand that we should go: the experience of being an atheist. There is only so long that one can demand that the thread is about sharing experiences without actually sharing any apart from the annoyance of fundies knocking at their door.

I suppose they could share the experience of repressing thoughts about the two questions I have asked them. But then they would need to justify repression itself which is well known to be a bad thing.

My experience of being an atheist is that these two questions loom large.

Spendius have you ever had a kid ask you such a question? If so why not just tell him/her the truth and hopefully they can understand or at least forgive you! Even atheist know how to show love and compassion unless they are a psychopathic atheist and there are some of them out there as a mater of fact I think that most all of us have psychopathic type traits in us even though we do not want to admit it! It is the monkey in us {our lowly origin}.



There are many ways to distinguish between good and bad behavior but a common approach to understanding is from your own emotional response to these behaviors when they are applied to us growing up.
If you like or dislike these behaviors when they are applied to you chances are that those around you will have the same response but there are exceptions!

There is a study of morality we call it Ethics and it seems to be much more correct than the teachings of the bible from my observation!

I did not want to put rl on ignore, because he is not a bad guy. But he has joined the ranks of the thread spammers. Goodbye.

Gees spendi...you know they cant answer any of those questions...science is still many lifetimes away from answering the kind of questions that religion answers right now and has for thousands of years . Meanwhile, atheists will have to be happy sneering at theists and punishing other atheists for what is natural selection at work .

They like to knock religion now using science, but where was science for the last 4,000 years ? They attack medieval Christianity with modern science . I think I should attack medieval science with modern theology, see what answers they can come up with ....