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Old August 22, 2002, 00:37   #91
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I love communists, they remind me of various fundamentalists. Thier faith is the common denomenator.
Anyone who believes in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic God, IMO, is a fundamentalist. (Atheists are also wrong)

The difference between US (the ones you brand as commies) and YOU (every theist) is that we put our faith in humanity's ability to create a utopian society, not in some invisible mythical, fabled god.
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but to be a theist and a communist, that is the best

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I'm following in your footsteps Che ... although I would never proclaim myself a communist ... even if I agree with some of Chomsky, Trotsky, or Lenin... like it or not, communism is exactly what the SU was and China is.
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we put our faith in humanity's ability to create a utopian society, not in some invisible mythical, fabled god.
You put your faith in a system that has failed each and everytime it was put to practical use.
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The problem is that the government has almost always been proven inefficient at controlling those things you mentioned. It turns into a swollen bureaucracy,
A swollen bureaucracy that somehow manages to have lower overhead, less waste, and costs less to consumers than for profit corporations. Yes, you have to deal with bureacratic headaches from time to time, depending on whether the government considers the department worth the resources (say child and welfare services, which gets shafted). As you haven't worked for a real corporation yet, you have no idea what a bloated bureaucracy is like. Trust me, the government is far from bloated. Understaffed and overworked is more like it.
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Anyone who believes in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic God, IMO, is a fundamentalist. (Atheists are also wrong)
So if you believe in God you're wrong, and if you don't believe in God you're wrong? That covers everybody, so at least I know I'm not in the boat alone...
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Che... corporations are swollen bureaucracies... with the government, the people have the power (in theory) to force change. Ideally, everyone in the government answers to society as a whole. The problem is that there is no accountability to the people.
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So if you believe in God you're wrong, and if you don't believe in God you're wrong? That covers everybody, so at least I know I'm not in the boat alone...
If you believe in God, you might be right but you have no proof or info to base your belief on. You should believe in your own ignorance and proclaim that you don't know. Even if one of the religions was the one true religion, it would be wrong to believe in them without proof or truth to base your belief on.

EDIT: Atheism is the belief that absolutely nothing exists. Theism is the belief that something exists. Being an agnostic is the way to go.

Socrates said something to the effect of, "The man who claims to know but really doesn't is not as wise as the man who admits he doesn't know."
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Originally posted by Sava
"we put our faith in humanity's ability to create a utopian society, not in some invisible mythical, fabled god."

reply from DinoDoc
"You put your faith in a system that has failed each and everytime it was put to practical use. "

Can you tell me that this system has succeeded??
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my system hasn't been tried yet.... in fact, it's a revision of American Democracy and Capitalism...

DD, I'll make it official... I AM NOT A COMMIE
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DD, I'll make it official... I AM NOT A COMMIE
Then the statement of mine you originally responded to wasn't refering to you, was it?
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EDIT: Atheism is the belief that absolutely nothing exists.
That's nihilism. Atheists don't believe in a god or gods, which covers those who disbelieve and those who have no belief either way.
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I'm following in your footsteps Che ... although I would never proclaim myself a communist ... even if I agree with some of Chomsky, Trotsky, or Lenin... like it or not, communism is exactly what the SU was and China is.
I was not a communist until I went to DePaul. Take Rose Spaulding's Politics of Latin America class. That's what did me in (although she's move to the right since I took the class in 1989). When you learn that the US happily broke its own laws as well as the laws of other countries to get what it wanted, you suddenly reaslize that there is no logical reason to suddenly respect the law on this side of the border.

I went from socialist to defeated in one class. There is simply no way to reform the system. The repressive apartus won't allow it. They'd overthrow any serious socialist effort that somehow managed to get elected. That really took the wind out of my sails.

Then this commies said something that messed with my head, he mentioned that communism worked once, in the Paris Commune. Oh, I shoulda known to keep walking. Everyone tells you those sneaky bastards will say anything, but I was vulnerable, having just had all my political ideals smashed. The rest, we shall say, is history.
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Che: I might agree with the idea that there is simply no way to reform the system. But communism is just not the way to go. I guess my image of communism is different from yours because my family escaped communism and came to America in 1958.

DD: I thought you were referring to me.

loinburger: but part of the pillar of atheism is that they are absolutely sure that there is no god or gods, I don't know if that is right or wrong... Theists are wrong because they can't prove their god(s) existence, Atheists are wrong because they can't disprove the theists god(s) existence.
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Sava: I wasn´t clear enough in my post. I wasn´t criticizing your system, I was questioning the current system (it was supposed to be a reply to DinoDoc).
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huh, I wasn't talking to you alofatti, don't worry ... the current system does suck.
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loinburger: but part of the pillar of atheism is that they are absolutely sure that there is no god or gods,
No, the one and only guarantee with an atheist is that he/she doesn't believe in god(s)--that is the one and only pillar of atheism. This does not necessarily mean that an atheist believes that there is/are no god(s)--many atheists, like me, neither believe in god(s) nor disbelieve in god(s). They have few, if any, metaphysical beliefs.

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Then you are an agnostic, not an atheist... go back to school and take a survey of religion course.
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Then you are an agnostic, not an atheist... go back to school and take a survey of religion course.
Agnosticism is an epistemological belief, not a metaphysical belief. Go back to school and learn about the different branches of philosophy.

Definition of an atheist:
1. An Atheist has no religious belief. An Atheist does not believe in a god or gods, or other supernatural entities.
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One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Sava: So you're saying that American Atheists doesn't know what an atheist is? Interesting...

I also note that you ignored my argument that agnosticism is an epistemological belief and not a metaphysical belief. I can only assume that you are diligently searching for inaccurate dictionaries in order to refute me, so I'll save you the trouble and clarify exactly what an agnostic is...

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Agnosticism is the belief that metaphysical knowledge is impossible to acquire, therefore it is an epistemological belief (relating to knowledge) and not a metaphysical belief.
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Well, sorry, but the term atheist has a set definition that is part of the English language. Atheists might consider themselves to have different beliefs than described in the definition. But its just like the "People's Republic of China"
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Well, sorry, but the term atheist has a set definition that is part of the English language.
Yeah, it's a real simple definition--a theist is someone who believes in god(s), and an atheist is somebody who is not a theist. The law of the excluded middle applies here--somebody is either a theist or an atheist. Saying that somebody does not believe in god(s) (or disbelieves in god(s)) is not equivalent to saying that somebody believes that there is/are no god(s), and the fact that you seem to think otherwise is no excuse for you to turn condescending.
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What do you mean turn? I'm always condesceding to people.
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I taken test on page you gived (politicalcompass.org), and it seems I am 4 to authoritarian side and 3 to right...

DarkCloaud, I know what you mean. I also have radical views at some things and people calls me neo-nazi. But, as that poll shown, I am not so authoritarian or right
My political compass score was less than 0.30 Economic Right, and less than 0.17 on Authoritarian right, if i remember correctly.

Sonic- I made an old chart, and if you consider most people's ratings, you are far to the right on authoritarianism-

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Weidt (EU) -7.13 -7.49 -7.31
celedhring (EU) -6.88 -7.59 -7.235
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Danzig (EU) -7 -7.08 -7.04
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Andy -6.63 -6.05 -6.34
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ColonyPod -4.75 -6.46 -5.605
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orange -5.38 -4 -4.69
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Orioles3386 -4.5 -2.77 -3.635
Chris Wilkinson -4 -1.9 -2.95
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Zagys (EU) -1 -3.44 -2.22
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ColdWizard -0.63 -2.51 -1.57
Playa del Carmen -0.13 -2.51 -1.32
Linus (EU) -2.13 0.26 -0.935
Christmas 2.5 -2.77 -0.135
Laser -2.5 2.67 0.085
Gareth_Edmunson 3.13 -2.82 0.155
DarkCloud 0.13 0.26 0.195
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King (EU) 1.5 -0.21 0.645
Caesar the Great 2 -0.21 0.895
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Monoriu (EU) 8.88 -3.59 2.645
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