snookums Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I've had a really hard time with the damn article....I'm not a local and have to read material more or less second hand - online. Its taken my awhile to "get it' - Opps! that this is crap....click to read the rest This is a good summary of what Newsweek adn the author Jerry Adler have to offer...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timeless_002055.php what a fuckup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimov Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I don't have any trouble being an atheist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT45 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I don't have any trouble being an atheist... I thought you didn't want to associate yourself with the negative stigma of being an atheist which is why you called yourself a radian objectiviest (sorry if I go the title wrong.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snookums Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Yeah.....but it does take "balls' to run against the popular consensus. I'd like to think I have enough 'danglies'... to do that... (metaphorically speaking) Like Sam ....I believe its crap to buckle and conform to some social rules of what is 'polite' and what isn't .....As far as I'm concerned........No belief is out of reach....including religious ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimov Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I don't have any trouble being an atheist... I thought you didn't want to associate yourself with the negative stigma of being an atheist which is why you called yourself a radian objectiviest (sorry if I go the title wrong.) No, that's why amethyst doesn't call herself an atheist but an agnostic. I call myself an objectivist because that is the philosophy I hold to. Objectivism is an atheistic system of belief. If I didn't want the negative stigma, I wouldn't have the Atheist symbol attached to my name. It's a negative belief...that is, it's the rejection of a belief system. I also have a positive belief system. Atheism tells people what I'm not, Objectivism tells people what I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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