My new website set up: www.strongatheism.com Check it out - hope its all to your liking. We've got quite a few authors on staff so far, putting together their strategies of what "departments" of writing they'd like to take over. A friend of mine, Franc, has been submitting a title wave of material. I, myself, have provided a number of articles, including the Argument From Non-Cognitivism, here: www.strongatheism.com/articles/noncognivitism And a refutation of the Transcendental Argument For The Existence of God, here: www.strongatheism.com/articles/TAGrefutation Before reading the latter, I urge you to check out the thread I'm going to put up on here regarding the Presuppositionalist challenge. Hope you all enjoy. Thanx much, - JL
yeah its good. i describe myself as a strong atheist. its good to have a website dedicated to it. its nice also to have a place for intellectual discussion about atheism and theism.
well you know i think it's good for people not to try and force themselves to believe what is different from their own experience because when people start doing that, the next thing you know we find ourselves trying to force everything we see and experience into the mold of what we've told ourselves to pre-expect about it, and when we do that we end up really missing a lot of what is right in front of us and not connecting dots when we need to. the thing is we each HAVE different kinds of experiences and i've experienced too many things that are outside and beyond what begins and ends with the totaly tangable, so it would be just as false for me to try and force myself to believe that there is nothing else that could possibly be. for one thing there were those dreams, or memories or what ever you might want to call them or be, of experiencing life under adult like conditions before i was even born, let alone could walk or talk, that there's just no way could possibly have come from any sort of experiencing i'd yet had in THIS life. now there's also nothing in that which directly resembles any sort of popular belief either, only in the more general sense of feelings that there is this sense of being loved kind of calmly, unobtrusively, even detatchedly. well there's a lot of other things and then of course there's the conundrum of entropy itself so for all of this what is most 'right' for ME is to not try an impose a perception that every sort of organized belief does on what is out there but rather to accept for the mystery that it is and let it be at that, as whatever, however it should choose to actualy be. and if, as some seem to insist there is actualy nothing, well then so be it. but this just isn't my own experience. i really don't see how a thing has to be what anyone expects of it in order to exist. that is the thing really. my perception anyway. and of course there are many more things that i have experienced that it would be pointless to detail here. i don't mean that by way of argument, only that we each ourselves experience what we do. =^^= .../\...
