JohnEmmett
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Really? How do you know this? And why would Buddha care about whether someone was an atheist or not? You do not sound like any Buddhist that I have ever met.
Oh, we can adapt to not believe in any god or gods that might come up. 'Stuck' is not a particularly meaningful or useful description - we're 'stuck' not believing in gods the same way you're stuck not believing in all the things you don't believe in.science adapts but atheists stay stuck
… we're 'stuck' not believing in gods …
What subjective evidence can there be of the afterlife? Do dead people talk to you?subjective evidence is fine
What subjective evidence can there be of the afterlife? Do dead people talk to you?
It changes because it continually discovers more about the world, updates our understanding of what was known, and corrects its errors.That's a problem with science, there are always changes. It's not stable in the least.
We can measure the gravitational force - Isaac Newton did that in the 17th century.Besides, 'science' is still telling you that you are hurtling on a ball in the vacuum of space in multiple directions at over 2 million miles per hour, while a gravitational force that cannot be measured keeps planets, moons, and comets in a predictable orbit, all satellites around the earth in perfect order, the tides a predictable interval, and all while you can't feel or measure any of it.
Oh, the irony!Sorry, I'm not that gullible.
The afterlife is not relevant to atheism. Some atheists believe in an afterlife, some don't. Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods.the afterlife is what you are stuck in denial of
How is that experience qualitatively different from a dream or trip or hallucination? What evidence is there that it was more?
How is that experience qualitatively different from a dream or trip or hallucination? What evidence is there that it was more?
It changes because it continually discovers more about the world, updates our understanding of what was known, and corrects its errors.
We can measure the gravitational force - Isaac Newton did that in the 17th century.
If you spent the time to understand the science, you'd understand that it explains why the celestial bodies orbit the way they do (Newton understood) and why you don't feel that movement (it's basically the same reason you don't feel the movement in a car, train, or aircraft cruising at constant speed).
Faith is a weakness.
That is pretty weak "evidence". She was not even dead. Being deeply unconscious is not being dead.
That is pretty weak "evidence"
Nope. One can just as easily believe wrong ideas as right ones when it comes to faith. People only use "faith" when they do not know. And they are wrong at rather high rate when they make that error. It is better to be honest and say "I do not know".
Faith is a muscle
Matthew 8:26
But that is only because you want it to be. It really is not since it is perfectly explainable from a natural perspective. No need for magic or hocus pocus.
I think it's strong evidence
But that is only because you want it to be.
People only use "faith" when they do not know.
Your link does not work. And yes, as great of a mind as he had Newton did not fully appreciate his work. Others went on after him and added to it. Your poor attempt does nothing to put any doubt on his work at all.You mean this Newton?
Tis unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential & inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe {innate} gravity to me. That gravity should be innate inherent & {essential} to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by & through which their action or force {may} be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I beleive no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00258/
He's stating that gravity pertaining to celestial bodies in a vacuum is so absurd that no one competent would ever even consider it, and that he didn't want such a thought ever associated with him. Funny how I knew this and you didn't.
You would have to prove that "spirit" exists to make such a claim be reliable. As written all you have is word salad.
I know but faith is a spiritual faculty
You would have to prove that "spirit" exists to make such a claim be reliable. As written all you have is word salad.
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