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why are you an atheist?

Started by randomvim, September 11, 2016, 03:14:56 AM

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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on January 30, 2019, 08:19:58 AM
Was that a job application?

Clever response.  No, it was solicitation, I am interested in his showing me his ... bonfides ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Baruch

#421
Quote from: Cavebear on January 30, 2019, 08:21:43 AM
It is possible I may have misunderstood your previous posts...

PLU was away for a long time.  You and I are not familiar with him.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

aitm

it's easier to spell than protas...protsete...protesten.....baptist.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

trdsf

Quote from: aitm on January 31, 2019, 06:32:04 PM
it's easier to spell than protas...protsete...protesten.....baptist.
Prostateant?  :D
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Cavebear

Quote from: Blackleaf on January 30, 2019, 01:42:54 PM
Yeah. We seem to get all the crazy ones. Makes sense, though. Why would a Christian go to a a site called "Atheist Forums" unless they were looking for a fight?

Some do.  Baruch, for example.  I personally think he does it for penance.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 03, 2019, 12:10:03 AM
Some do.  Baruch, for example.  I personally think he does it for penance.

Medieval self-flagellant ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 03, 2019, 04:01:27 AM
Medieval self-flagellant ;-)

Yeah that sounds about right.  You are either here to convert us or you you are ordered to annoy us for forgiveness of your sins.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 03, 2019, 04:04:29 AM
Yeah that sounds about right.  You are either here to convert us or you you are ordered to annoy us for forgiveness of your sins.

The second.  Conversion is anti-semitic technique.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Halkenburg

Quote from: Baruch on January 27, 2019, 06:38:46 AM
German universities have English outreach.  I have studied some of their quantum communication theory a few years ago.  Hakurei Reimu (pen name) is a statistician who posts here, but he doesn't have a teaching attitude.  If I have some math questions, are you open to assisting?  For example ...

http://www.didaktik.physik.uni-erlangen.de/quantumlab/english/index.html ... and also ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49i_LM8B0E

I have a side interest in abstract algebraic logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebraic_logic

If interested, we can adjourn this to the math section of course.

On the agnosticism/atheism ... well, many here have epistemological objections to theism.  Coming from psychology, I do not.  Empiricist vs rationalist divide ... Apollonian vs Dionysian (per Nietzsche).

We tried to get a Godel-Escher-Bach discussion group going once also.  That might be more your speed.

My bad, I meant to type "high school" instead of "college." I don't think I'd be able to help you with that kind of high level math.

Baruch

#429
OK.  No shame, your HS math is like college math in the US ;-)  Best math book I have ever bought was the English translation of the first edition VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics (E Germany). by Gellert et al Editors.  The upper level chapters cover Galois theory!

I also liked the first edition CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics  (USA) by Weisstein.

Anyway, do you have a favorite math channel on YouTube?
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Blackleaf

Quote from: Cavebear on February 03, 2019, 04:04:29 AM
Yeah that sounds about right.  You are either here to convert us or you you are ordered to annoy us for forgiveness of your sins.

If you think Baruch cares about whether or not you agree with him, you don't know him very well. His goal isn't to convert anyone.
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--

Baruch

I would like a little friendly help with my math, when I get back to it.  But I don't care if you are a believer, agnostic or non-believer in irrational numbers ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Unbeliever

I like numberphile and mathologer on youtube. They explain things really well, and make it interesting where it otherwise might not be if explained by a math teacher. I think the job of people who teach math in school is to make it as boring as possible.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Halkenburg

Quote from: Baruch on February 03, 2019, 07:10:45 PM
Anyway, do you have a favorite math channel on YouTube?

Yeah, my favorite one is Numberphile.

Baruch

Quote from: Halkenburg on February 04, 2019, 02:35:35 PM
Yeah, my favorite one is Numberphile.

Mathlogger corrects Numberphile's mistakes ;-)  But Numberphile is easier to follow.

May I add another .... 3Blue1Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaL_Cb42WyY
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.