Comments for The Atheist Experience

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Deanna Joy Lyons

Deanna Joy Lyons — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:07:37 +0000

I will send you cookies! Seriously.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Martin Wagner

Martin Wagner — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:22:35 +0000

I know the piece of which you speak, and it’s in my crosshairs. Stay tuned.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Adam

Adam — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:10:11 +0000

ThereminTrees has a nice video on youtube breaking down the issue along with useful responses.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Deanna Joy Lyons

Deanna Joy Lyons — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:02:46 +0000

Thank you Jeebus, er, actually- thank you, Martin!

I was just having a hankering for a good takedown Wagner-style (I was just reading that awful piece of dreck from yet another humanist who knows so much better than the atheists what they should be doing with our time that he wrote an entire article telling us to do what we *are already doing*.) I thought, here’s something I would love to see Martin demolish, and I come here to the blog and there’s another fantastic asswhooping. Ahhh, much better.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by NoApologetics

NoApologetics — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:31 +0000

Oh! I like this post I was hoping it was going to go past 3 Imagine my disappointment and furrowed brow when there was nothing after three. Maybe for future post you could do a top 7, 10, 500? Most annoying fallacious arguments/shit people say to atheists: I submit Atheists are just as bad fundamentalists, they’re two sides of the same coin.

Comment on We get email: emo poetry edition by Mia Nilo

Mia Nilo — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:03:03 +0000

Obviously this Olsen fellow isn’t much of a Larkin fan. Pity, it might have made the poetry a little more bearable.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:14 +0000

To clarify, I mean solipsism in the epistemological sense, not metaphysical. Saying “the outside world does not exist” is a claim that requires proof. Saying “we can’t know if the outside world exists” is true by definition, since the only way we can prove our senses are trustworthy is to use something other than senses i.e. pure reason, which can’t prove jack in this case.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:36 +0000

This sentence

“Solipsism is a nonsensical position from which nothing of value can be extracted BY DEFINITION.”

Sure, it’s a practical pain in the ass. But just because it doesn’t provide any positive, useful in-world data that we can use to our advantage, it does not mean it’s false, quite the contrary, if you take solipsism to mean the following:

” Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist.”

then it’s necessarily true, since we have no a priori way of proving the outside world exists.

Not saying it’s an idea worth pursuing, since it goes nowhere, but at least it’s logical, unlike blurting at any random time “You’re closed minded! Wahhhhhh”.

Comment on “Closed-minded”: the phrase that loses every argument by Improbable Joe

Improbable Joe — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:32:34 +0000

Solipsism is WHAT?!?! *click*

Solipsism is a nonsensical position from which nothing of value can be extracted BY DEFINITION.

Comment on And yet, AA’s ugliest billboard belongs in the Louvre compared to this eyesore by razzlefrog

razzlefrog — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:32:31 +0000

Idiot. He’s gonna build a cross, eh? An enormous multiple-story beast? Dude. Someone with enough pity in them needs to email the nut and inform him building monuments requires a lot of concrete, metal under-wiring, tremendously heavy material, glass, wood, etc. He wants to make a fucking cross! Those horizontal components are an example of the shittiest possible kind of engineering out there.

Honestly. Do these people never think? Never? Wouldn’t those arms reach at least 10 meters in both directions? That image looks like he himself designed the structure.

I say build it. Good luck, bro.