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Naw. He just contents himself that in one of his alternate realities the other team did win.
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Certainly, It is essentially a weekly live call in show taking questions from callers or emails and answering them on the air, aswell as discuss some topics related to atheism in an attempt to provide information.
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1. Have you read any books of Christian apologetics? If so, which ones?
2. Some people say that they have had personal contact with God or experiences with angels or other spiritual beings. Do you believe that such people are lying, hallucinating, or something else?
3. Do you believe that all things which occur in the minds of humans, such as thoughts, feelings, memories, and so forth, are purely the result of material events involving the cells of the brain, or do you believe in some sort of soul distinct from the brain?
4. Do you believe that humans have free will?
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Can you point out what you intended to say by posting that video?
Having watched the full version of that talk, I don't see where she posited that what she experienced was anything other than brain states.
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How it feels to have a stroke - YouTube
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1. I havent read any mainly Christian related books. I tend stray from them as i feel that they are very bias. I have read a few Religion and psycology book of names i cant remember.
2. I gennerally dont question what they have seen or not seen. I tend not to do this as i do indeed respect religion and dont want to seem persuasive or bias. If you do want my oppinion on this i believe it is a sort of placebo affect. The believer believes in god or spirits and creates the reality in there head. This is backed up by the point that your most remembered memories are your least acurate, the brain could have edited that memory in.
3. I believe that a soul indeed does not exist. I do have some knowlege in the neuroscientific field about how the brains workings are just biological signals, synapses and cells. Another interesting thing, a bit off topic, but did you know that for the brain to remember something it litterally replays the event in your head. Quite cool.
4. Yes. I believe we are not controlled by anything more than ourselves. No god or idol, only the memories and ideals we put in our head guide us.
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I see what you mean by posting that. Due to my purely biological beliefs, i would take it for my own heads working. I wouldnt be swayed by this image of utopia, we can halucinate, especially during strokes you know? I take that as an uninformed dessision.
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No she talks of (in parhaps the longer version) of her experiences in terms of brain states. So why did I post? It was an attempt to show that such experiences, and therefore by extension experiences at death, may well overwhelm and overturn one's ordinary perceptions of reality. And one may have little say in this, whether one likes it or not whilst philosophising on the www. So when the OP ("Im a theist") said he would not be affected, I think there is room to reasonably doubt this.
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But can you be sure you would have the disinterestedness and the cool distance you have now, if your "world is overturned" as in a dream and you are travelling down that tunnel?
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I would like to probe your positions here a little bit deeper. Obviously you believe that some things are true and that some persons are able to perceive those truths rightly. Yet, at the same time, you believe that other persons experience hallucinations or let their beliefs and biases affect what they perceive. How, then, can you tell who's in the first group and who's in the second? In other words, how do you know who to trust? If someone comes along and says that they perceive something, how do you determine whether this person is in the reliable group or the group that hallucinates and falls prey to the placebo effect?
Most people, when I ask this, respond with some claim to the effect that they believe in things that are repeatable and verifiable, but not those that aren't. If that's your response, then what specifically do you mean by repeatable and verifiable?
If every thought in your own head is a biological signal traveling along synapses, then why would you trust those thoughts? Wouldn't it be the case that if you had inherited different genes from your parents, or if different synapses had sprung up among your brain cells, then you'd believe entirely different things? And if so, then why are the thoughts that arise from your current brain configuration any different from the thoughts that would have arisen from any other?
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What would be the alternative (what else do you expect me to trust) - and how would this alternative not be subjected to the same process?
Sure.
They are different because...well, you have just mentioned it: because I have inherited different genes etc.
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Hi, im Jacob and yes im an atheist. If you want to, feel free to ask me anything. You may wonder why im here, i want to get to know your views and maybe chat. We could educate each other.
Can you disprove theism?
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I don't mean religions or personal gods ( Allah, Zeus, Baal etc) . I mean more like an intelligent design, a creator.
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Where did you go?Hi, im Jacob and yes im an atheist. If you want to, feel free to ask me anything. You may wonder why im here, i want to get to know your views and maybe chat. We could educate each other.
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Cool. Could you elaborate, as unambiguously as possible, what you mean by 'I am an atheist'?Hi, im Jacob and yes im an atheist. If you want to, feel free to ask me anything. You may wonder why im here, i want to get to know your views and maybe chat. We could educate each other.
Your flag says you're in the Antarctic, but your 'location' says England - just where are you?
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Hi, im Jacob and yes im an atheist. If you want to, feel free to ask me anything. You may wonder why im here, i want to get to know your views and maybe chat. We could educate each other.
Ok. Here's a good sub-topic:
"what are your thoughts regarding abiogenesis?"
I'd like to know what you think.
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I do wonder why atheists keep making these "ask an atheist anything" threads. As if speaking to an atheist around here is such a rarity.
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