Atheism requires as much faith as religion?

[Dave Nelson]

blacklagoon wrote:

<quoted text>Your complete lack of knowledge on the subject is startling. You certainly come off as though you're some kind of intellectual genius, but this just puts you in a category of musical idiocy. Trying to illicit an angry response from me is a rather childish tact, and would have thought well beneath you. I don't usually provide free education, but seeing how desperately you need it, I'll suspend my usual fee.
Lets first begin with the fact that you are completely ignorant when it comes to understanding music, on any level. Your stupid comments on the brass family bear that out. Your first assignment is to listen to the opening of Mahler's 8th symphony and relate the importance of the brass family, yes that includes the trumpets. Next the opening of Strauss's (an Atheist composer) Also Sprach Zarathustra. A piece of music so filled with passion it has been used in numerous Movie scores, used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001. Elvis even used it to open his Las Vegas show. Now go back to the ending of Mahler's 8th symphony and tell me what impact the brass have, include the offstage trumpets. The test will NOT be graded on a curve, so pay attention.
What make s me a music critic? I am not only a performer (trumpet player) but a composer/arranger, and a full professor with a doctorate in composition. I do clinics, teach selected students privately, compose commissioned pieces, arrange for an assortment of vocalists and other performers, teach master classes at the college level, and review graduation portfolios for college seniors.
You are limited to a machine like mind, you're way out of your league here. Stick to your magnet and string and leave the emotions and passions of music to the creative mind, and the superior intellect.

:-)

A picture is worth a thousand words. A song can sum it all up in minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

People are emotional creatures. It is part of the overall scheme of expression by higher powers. They push buttons and play notes to get some action going. Simple minds are math heads just plodding along.

You were in the Army. You know you have to be taught to march, to follow the cadence set by someone else. You and your fellow plodder alongers holler a lot and make noise with your hot air pumping machines trying to get everyone to follow your cadence. You don't realize you are the ones out of step.

Get some poetry in your soul. Get you a duduk and emote.

[Aerobatty]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

<quoted text>It's true.... Why are atheists fighting against something they don't believe exists??

Why don't they spend any time trying to get out anti-Casper blogs? Or anti-Bilbo Baggins blogs?

Answer: Because they don't believe in Casper or Bilbo....

Religion exists.

Ignorance exists.

Dogma exists.

Religious bigotry exists.

WTF are you talking about?

[Aerobatty]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

<quoted text>But it's not me that's arguing against something I have a non belief in, it's you.

I wouldn't waste 10 seconds of my life arguing against leprechauns or ghosts, I'm a non-believer in both.

Does religion exist?

Dolt.

[Dave Nelson]

Aerobatty wrote:

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You didn't like his post, did you Dave.

I was not impressed with the quality of it.

[-Skeptic-]

Dave Nelson wrote:

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:-)
A picture is worth a thousand words. A song can sum it all up in minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
People are emotional creatures. It is part of the overall scheme of expression by higher powers. They push buttons and play notes to get some action going. Simple minds are math heads just plodding along.
You were in the Army. You know you have to be taught to march, to follow the cadence set by someone else. You and your fellow plodder alongers holler a lot and make noise with your hot air pumping machines trying to get everyone to follow your cadence. You don't realize you are the ones out of step.
Get some poetry in your soul. Get you a duduk and emote.

So no proof of god then. Keep lying, we'll keep laughing at how many different ways you can try to articulate "I have absolutely no proof of god, but god is real I tellz ya, honest!"

[RiversideRedneck]

-Skeptic- wrote:

Its quite sad to see so many creationist godbots with no proof of god, still continuing their campaign of lies.

It's quite sad to see so many evolutionist athibots with no proof of no god, still continuing their campaign of lies.

[RiversideRedneck]

Siro wrote:

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Topix atheists by and large are marxists and/or sexual deviates.
These creatures think in terms of slogans as used in commie countries like north korea, they use the same sort of mantras as used by terrorist groups like the red army faction of germany, red brigades etc with their 'peoples revolutionary liberation struggle' and so on.
The hatred of God and viewing him as an enemy to be destroyed is compulsory to their political thinking not rational thinking.
They then merely rename their political thought as 'rational thought' and peddle it from there.
Their mental poison comes from the Frankfurt School of marxism, a combination of narcissism, hedonism and ultimately nihilism and probably something else.

And their "rational thought" & "skepticism" ends when a calculator can't give them any answers.

[RiversideRedneck]

The_Box wrote:

I've already told you.
Society is a mix of ideas. Some are good, some are bad. They all must be challenged. If someone says trickle-down economics is the best way to help the poor, people will stand up and say "That's crap." But in our country, religion gets a free pass. It shouldn't.

So then your ultimate goal is to overturn the Constitution?

Just as you have every American right to not believe, I have every American right to believe.

That, my boy, is freedom.

Enjoy it. Embrace it.

Really? So the gay friends can get married now? I can stop worrying about Christians trying to put Creationism and reconstructed history in schools? Christians have given up trying to strip funding for women's reproductive health?

Yes, gays can marry.

You can stop worrying about creationism when we stop worrying about evolutionism.

No, republicans are trying to make people understand that if a woman wants an abortion, it should NOT be federally subsidized. Pay for it yourself, bitch.

[Dave Nelson]

-Skeptic- wrote:

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So no proof of god then. Keep lying, we'll keep laughing at how many different ways you can try to articulate "I have absolutely no proof of god, but god is real I tellz ya, honest!"

There are two types of Topix atheist. Generically speaking.

You have those that are so enamored with the technical aspects of existence that they lost sight of the greater picture and kind of blunder about in a maze they can't get out of. A jeweler's loupe is a great device, but you don't want to walk around with it on.

Then you have those with the technical aspects rattling around loose in the case.

Get you a tube. Have a friend or someone to assist you.

http://www.loctiteproducts.com/threadlocking-...

[RiversideRedneck]

Aerobatty wrote:

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Read the second to last line, dipshit.

Ya, I got it. Just wanted to clarify that he believes in a god.

Not a true atheist, is he?

And to have a god that is a word? Strange....

Reason:

Noun
A cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.

[Thinking]

Excellent deconstruction. You're very patient with the hard of thinking.

polymath257 wrote:

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The word 'creates' is a strange one here, but OK.
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This is false. For example, the center of mass in the Earth-Moon system is inside the earth. The location where the gravitational forces 'cancel' is fairly close to the moon. the 'wobble' is around the first.
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Wrong. The force produced by two masses on a third does not have to be directed towards the center of mass of the two.
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Huh?
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very nicely described by the vector addition of the different forces. But you don't think math applies here.
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If the masses are orbiting, the distances won't close: for two masses, the distance will be periodic.
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Well, the center of mass of two objects is always between the two.
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And here you go from simple ignorance to flat-out kook. The rest of your diatribe goes downhill from here.
Seriously, Dave, go get a book about this stuff and read it. The universe doesn't work the way you seem to think. And yes, the ideas in the books have been tested repeatedly over the last few centuries. They actually work in practice.

[Thinking]

Straw man.

"deviates"?

Siro wrote:

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Topix atheists by and large are marxists and/or sexual deviates.
These creatures think in terms of slogans as used in commie countries like north korea, they use the same sort of mantras as used by terrorist groups like the red army faction of germany, red brigades etc with their 'peoples revolutionary liberation struggle' and so on.
The hatred of God and viewing him as an enemy to be destroyed is compulsory to their political thinking not rational thinking.
They then merely rename their political thought as 'rational thought' and peddle it from there.
Their mental poison comes from the Frankfurt School of marxism, a combination of narcissism, hedonism and ultimately nihilism and probably something else.

[RiversideRedneck]

Aerobatty wrote:

Does religion exist?
Dolt.

Why do you atheists always ask the stupidest questions?

That has nothing to do with the fact that you are arguing against something you claim to be a non believer of.

Why?

[RiversideRedneck]

Aerobatty wrote:

Religion exists.
Ignorance exists.
Dogma exists.
Religious bigotry exists.
WTF are you talking about?

What are YOU talking about?

Atheist bigotry exists as well, Aero.

Don't pretend like it doesn't.

You're doing an awful lot of shouting for something you claim to have no belief in.....

[Siro]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

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And their "rational thought" & "skepticism" ends when a calculator can't give them any answers.

Bob of Quantum-Faith is a prime example, he quotes me and then calls me a racist even though there is no mention of race in what he has quoted me or even the thread he quoted me from.
Atheists use marxism because it is a shrink wrapped ideology with no thinking required.

[RiversideRedneck]

Thinking wrote:

Straw man.
"deviates"?
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Ah.... Typical Topix anti-theist.

Read the first line only, the hit the reply button.....

[Siro]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

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It's quite sad to see so many evolutionist athibots with no proof of no god, still continuing their campaign of lies.

And yet Skeptic claims the the non existance of God has been proven, but when you ask for this evidence all you get is 'God doesnt exist because I said so'.

[Thinking]

Zero marx out of ten for you.[sic]

Siro wrote:

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Bob of Quantum-Faith is a prime example, he quotes me and then calls me a racist even though there is no mention of race in what he has quoted me or even the thread he quoted me from.
Atheists use marxism because it is a shrink wrapped ideology with no thinking required.

[The_Box]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

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So then your ultimate goal is to overturn the Constitution?

Not at all. Where did you get that garbage?

RiversideRedneck wrote:

Just as you have every American right to not believe, I have every American right to believe.

No kidding. I said nothing about preventing your beliefs. I said they need to be CHALLENGED.

RiversideRedneck wrote:

Yes, gays can marry.

In only a few states.

RiversideRedneck wrote:

You can stop worrying about creationism when we stop worrying about evolutionism.

Evolution is science. Sorry, you'll always have to worry about education occurring in schools.

Creationism is religious mythology.

RiversideRedneck wrote:

No, republicans are trying to make people understand that if a woman wants an abortion, it should NOT be federally subsidized. Pay for it yourself, bitch.

A load of crap. The Religious Right wants abortion to be illegal and the most extreme elements want even contraception to be illegal. Listen to politicians like Rick Santorum. He thinks people's bedrooms are a legitimate domain of the government, which should make sure they're doing the right,'godly' things. And this isn't a crackpot who has 2 followers; he was a major GOP candidate for President.

[Siro]

Thinking wrote:

Zero marx out of ten for you.[sic]
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bah-dum-tsssss!