Atheism

I have over 90,000 posts on a2k.

LOL. That was fun, but this time I am serious. It's your fault: you express yourself poorly, most of the times. I only recently realised you were talking of metaphysics. It's well know that metaphysics are a waste of time.

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...I do not know if there are any gods...I cannot possibly know anything about them.

Just playing Devil's Advocate here. These are very qualitatively distinct statements. The former is defensible because it is based on first-person, empirical data (personal experience). The latter is a metaphysical knowledge claim. Frank, would you allow that there may be some way that you might possibly know about them in the future, even though you don't at present?

I'm going to Ancient Greece here and showing where the dogmatic skeptics differed from the Pyrrhonian skeptics. Dogmatic skeptics claimed that knowledge was impossible, but the Pyrrhonians only stated that they didn't know yet, leaving open the possibility for future developments.

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My thoughts, of course [...] are in my head.

Thanks for stating the obvious once again.

The point is that, if they are in your head, they are observable by you. So you failed to present a convincing example of "a logical comment about something you cannot observe."

Try again! See if you can come up with one thing you know about the universe without any empirical proof of it.

It really looks terrible on you.

CI is an ignoramus and a liar. I guess every forum has a couple.

Please cut and paste from any of my posts that are lies or based on ignorance?

If you want to characterize what I have written as metaphysics in order to be dismissive of it...do so

Both published letters of mine...two different letters.

I'll trust their judgement over yours, Olivier.

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If you want to characterize what I have written as metaphysics in order to be dismissive of it...do so

I don't need your go-ahead to classify discussions about gods, the nature of "being", or life after death as metaphysical... In fact I am helping you express yourself here.

What, for all those years posting your ignorance of gods, "ultimate reality" and the likes, nobody on A2K made the connection with the classic critique of metaphysics as undecidable?

There's only one possible explanation: nobody here gives a flying rat's arse about your posts...

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Both published letters of mine...two different letters.

I'll trust their judgement over yours, Olivier.

LOL. You shouldn't. Both Time and Newsweek are piss-poor magazines dumbing down their readers.

Did you write to them about "the qualifier", "the ultimate nature of REALITY", and whether you know any god? No? Try it and see if you can get that salmigundi of truisms and lapalissades published...

As for his challenge to you, Advocate...post almost anything he has ever written using the word "oxymoron."

He misuses it just about every time he types it.

Thanks for conceding my point that knowledge must be based on empirical facts, which one can observe. Your counter-example was embarrassingly off-mark.

Spendius said:- a loose coalition of people and commercial organisations dedicated to destroying the Christian religion... they could not find a replacement for Christianity and had to content themselves with just the destruction.

frankie boy wrote,

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As for his challenge to you, Advocate...post almost anything he has ever written using the word "oxymoron."

He misuses it just about every time he types it.

Okay, please cut and paste from any of my post with those words, and show how I missed its definition?

Not from you.

Whatsa matter, frankie boy? Can't answer my simple question?
You have proven once again that you're a ******* loser.

You are an out of control, overly angry person, ci.

Ever been paid for an essay?