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atheism. what does it stand for? Biscuits, it seems!

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    #392
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    kiffer wrote: »
    So you're changing from:
    "many atheists do xyz"
    To
    "atheists do xyz"
    ...?
    I think he might have meant 'some people do xyz'.


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    #393
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    endacl wrote: »
    I think he might have meant 'some people do xyz'.

    Some atheists are pedants.


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    #394
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    What the heck happened here?:confused::confused::confused:

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    #395
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    A great big delicious miracle, that's what happened!


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    #396
    legspin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    I'm going to have to hide this thread from the better half.


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    #397
    Bannasidhe
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    kiffer wrote: »
    Some atheists are pedants.

    Many atheists are pedants.

    :pac:


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    #398
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Many atheists are pedants.

    :pac:

    Name them, I dare you :D


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    #399
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Many atheists are pedants.

    :pac:

    Surely the more appropriate way of saying this would have been, "Many atheists are pedantic."?


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    #400
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    #1


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    #401
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Obliq wrote: »
    Name them, I dare you :D
    Jernal wrote: »
    Surely the more appropriate way of saying this would have been, "Many atheists are pedantic."?

    I rest my case.


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    #402
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I rest my case.

    It IS NOT pedantic to not accept something at face value.....
    [COLOR="rgb(255, 192, 203)"]Oh right. Point taken.[/COLOR]

    Feck.


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    #403
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    seamus wrote: »
    You see unlike these "other philosophies" you talk about, people in religious countries tend to assume that everyone else is religious.

    So when you're asked why you haven't put the ashes of a burnt tree on your forehead, or why you don't agree that homosexuality is an abomination before god, you kind of need a word to describe your worldview.

    The only reason atheists exist in any kind of public way is because religious people refuse to keep their religion to themselves.

    Is that all religious people? Many religious people? Or just a handful?


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    #404
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Obliq wrote: »
    It IS NOT pedantic to not accept something at face value.....
    [COLOR="rgb(255, 192, 203)"]Oh right. Point taken.[/COLOR]

    Feck.

    Is that a double negative I see before me?

    :D


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    #405
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_obesity

    Hide the biscuits - they're onto us!
    Conservapedia wrote:
    As of June of 2012, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have not publicly commented on the significant problems the New Atheism leadership has experienced in terms of overweight members.
    :pac:


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    #406
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Is that a double negative I see before me?

    :D

    As a pedant, I must point out that double negatives are a no-no.


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    #407
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Is that a double negative I see before me?

    :D

    Next thing you'll claim that not believing that something doesn't exist is the same as believe that it does exist. ...


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    #408
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    kiffer wrote: »
    Next thing you'll claim that not believing that something doesn't exist is the same as believe that it does exist. ...

    I will yeah.


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    #409
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I will yeah.

    Scrap!

    Although... I wouldn't risk it for a biscuit!

    ;-)


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    #410
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Jernal wrote: »
    Surely the more appropriate way of saying this would have been, "Many atheists are pedantic."?

    That would also be true... but you can't be a pedant with out being pedantic so wouldn't it be redundant...


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    #411
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    endacl wrote: »
    Scrap!

    Hmmmmm

    Another one who doesn't speak Cork.


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    #412
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I will yeah.

    Ahhh the double positive...


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    #413
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    kiffer wrote: »
    Ahhh the double positive...

    Yes-yes?


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    #414
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Hmmmmm

    Another one who doesn't speak Cork.

    Nobody speaks Cork. They make it up as they go along.


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    #415
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    endacl wrote: »
    Nobody speaks Cork. They make it up as they go along.

    Typical atheists and their circular logic. Cork is make it up as you go along!


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    #416
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    endacl wrote: »
    Yes-yes?

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    #417
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    meansno.png

    I was pretty sure that was universal across the island.


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    #418
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    kiffer wrote: »
    I was pretty sure that was universal across the island.

    It is Yeah.



    :pac:


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    #419
    kiffer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    It is Yeah.



    :pac:

    It is in me hole...
    A linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."


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    #420
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    kiffer wrote: »
    It is in me hole...

    Bet me to it. Feckyiz anyway:p


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    #421
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    I don't feel safe in here anymore like.


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