I’d guess either Murphy’s or Sturgeon’s.
I have bolded the important, if weaselly, word. I know some lawyers who are pretty dumb.
My money is on his being one of those guys in gaudy suits who hang around Traffic Court hoping some guy with a DUI realizes he needs a lawyer.
Both.
right - I should have ended it with a period to indicate it was a rhetorical device… damn new rules and definitions…
After reading this thread and the links, I’m curious myself. Can you enlighten us, pchaos?
Me too. What’s your specialty, pchaos?
I doubt it. Those guys have to be at least smart enough to get through Caribbean mail order law school.
Without God there would be no atheists. Chesterton.
The atheists on this Board have painted themselves into a corner. All they have is their disbelief in God or gods. So if you got rid of God or gods there is just disbelief and thus atheists would be gone.
In order for atheism to maintain relevance they need to go beyond there’s no God.
I’m a Christian, I have no real interest in creating a coherent philosophy for you. All I can just quickly survey the literature and say I don’t consider any of the “atheist” systems I’ve looked at sufficiently coherent.
Also, I’ll agree with OP’s request that I will minimize any mention of my profession.
Which is writing fiction? Counseling other survivors of traumatic brain injury?
I know that even in The BBQ Pit there is a limit to how nasty we can get, but…In comparison to you, lekatt sounds coherent and logical.
This is so incredibly stupid I have trouble accepting that even you believe it.
I can almost agree with **pchaos **on this last bit. If no one had a belief in God or gods, then there would be no need for a word to describe that disbelief. “Atheism” is only a concept in comparison to “theism,” if theism were to die out, no one would bother describing themselves as an atheist.
Now, because **pchaos **has demonstrated no ability to imagine or empathize with any other viewpoint, he sees this elimination of the concept of “atheism” as a triumph for God, rather than as a maturing of mankind past another set of myths.
Mind numbing stupidity.
If he is an attorney, his court arguments must be embarassing to everyone who hears them.
You win the thread. Just not in the way one normally would want to win a thread.
I’m puzzled by your assumption that atheists seek to maintain “relevance.” Really, it’s not complicated. There are no gods. Atheists realize this. End of story. We’re not trying to accomplish anything (as a group). It’s as if there was a name for people who don’t believe the room disappears when the light is turned off. It doesn’t tell you anything about us except we don’t buy into a common myth. There are pro life atheists, pro choice atheists, smart atheist, not so smart atheists, liberals, apoliticals, etc., etc.
lekatt and kanicbird are, at the least, consistent with their overall viewpoints and fully accept that others don’t believe them.
This guys the kind of wackadoo that gives those two pause.
I can sort of see what he’s thinking: if NO ONE believes in the existence of god(s), then we wouldn’t have any need for a word to distinguish those who don’t. As we didn’t have a term for ‘analog’ watches until we invented digital ones.
But he does have it backwards: it’s not the atheists who would disappear if we ‘got rid’ of gods, it’s that the theists would be gone.
I’ve met Christians - you are no such thing - You are not a lawyer - and if, by some chance, you have a license to practice law, cutting it off the back of a cheerios box does not a lawyer make.
You are a troll, plain and simple - and not even a very good one of those - whats that tell you?
You’re right…but that’s what some atheists don’t understand.
When I begin to listen to an atheist’s argument, you need to assume that I already know that you do not believe in God. But for some reason I’m still listening…well, I’m waiting for the coherent philosophy that comes afterwards. If it doesn’t come, then I stop listening.
There have been plenty of things said that you could have listened to and understood - you choose not to and then post this drivel.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Church musta let out early today, huh?