Lion IRC wrote:Thats deep.

Atheism versus half a ham sandwich.

Atheism is nothing.
A half a ham sandwich is better than nothing.

Atheism - like a ham sandwich, but less ham and no sandwich.

Lion IRC wrote:Atheism IS the joke itself.
The joke which cannot be mocked.

WAIT... is this the thread where you can mock atheism without being "inflammatory"?
Animavore?

Can you point to a thread in the history of this forum where atheism couldn't be mocked.... ? Citations? No, cheap throw-away comment as usual: it's the way you tell 'em.


Religion IS the joke. All these mutually exclusive assertions about the way the universe works, and the personal feelings of the creator, drawn from the collective wisdom of bronze age pastoralists, and routinely dragged out on public display in the 21st century complete with begging bowl.

Atheism is a null position, Lion: it just doesn't accept the claims about gods - there's nothing really to mock, which is why you can't get a hold on it. It's alright, there are plenty of other human quirks and eccentricities available to pick on - no one claims that atheism is a panacea from being an idiot.

Spearthrower wrote:

Lion IRC wrote:Thats deep.

Atheism versus half a ham sandwich.

Atheism is nothing.
A half a ham sandwich is better than nothing.

Atheism - like a ham sandwich, but less ham and no sandwich.

LMFAO!! gimme that on a teeshirt

Atheism should not be any more
protected than theism in the sense
that nothing deserves an unquestioning
belief and I for one have zero problem with
anyone mocking mine. And in fact in defence
of free speech would expect nothing less. As the
only way that one can advance is through brutal self
analysis - and nothing less can do - it really is that simple

Take it and strip it down to it s component parts and then try and put it
back together. If any thing is missing then there is a flaw. Then reference
that flaw and then repeat that process ad infinitum - there are only two rules
which are universal : always respect the individual but attack the idea - it makes
no difference whatsoever who the individual in question is or what the idea is - the
bar is set at infinity for this with no exceptions whatsoever - don t forget to remember

Lion IRC wrote:Atheism IS the joke itself.
The joke which cannot be mocked.

WAIT... is this the thread where you can mock atheism without being "inflammatory"?
Animavore?

I would certainly hope so. I love nothing better than a good laugh. Did I mention my cousin is a famous stand-up comedian? It's just when people try touch atheism it generally has no comedy value. We've all heard the one about the priest, the rabbi and the iman but where's the atheist?

Animavore wrote:
Did I mention my cousin is a famous stand up comedian ?

Would that be Ed Byrne ? For me though the best Irish one is Dylan Moran

surreptitious57 wrote:

Animavore wrote:
Did I mention my cousin is a famous stand up comedian ?

Would that be Ed Byrne ? For me though the best Irish one is Dylan Moran

No. Not that cunt. Jason Byrne is my cousin.

To reiterate -

Lion IRC wrote:Thats deep.

Atheism versus half a ham sandwich.

Atheism is nothing.
A half a ham sandwich is better than nothing.

But as a Christian wouldn't you have to say that nothing is better than God? And doesn't that make God two steps worse than half a ham sandwich?

Animavore wrote:

surreptitious57 wrote:

Animavore wrote:
Did I mention my cousin is a famous stand up comedian ?

Would that be Ed Byrne ? For me though the best Irish one is Dylan Moran

No. Not that cunt Jason Byrne is my cousin

Never heard of him - are you and Ed not related then ?

logical bob wrote: And doesn't that make God two steps worse than half a ham sandwich?

Only by the application of Lie Algebra.

Lulz!

Two theists at an atheist funeral and one says to the other "pity, all dressed up and nowhere to go."

Still were back to the theists thinking they are going somewhere when they die but it probably will give them a good laugh.

DaveDodo007 wrote:Two theists at an atheist funeral and one says to the other "pity, all dressed up and nowhere to go."

Except of course if they actually think this, then they're accepting the notion that their "afterlife" is a fiction.

But of course consistency and supernaturalism tend not to enjoy each other's company very often.

DaveDodo007 wrote:Still were back to the theists thinking they are going somewhere when they die but it probably will give them a good laugh.

But of course, once we're all worm food, we're not in a position to care. Though I'd really like to see something other than the usual apologetic shit sandwiches with regard to supernaturalist assertions on the subject.

Can atheism be mocked?
Of course. Anything can be mocked. It's the simplest form of humor.

For it's ridiculousness?
Yes, because ridicule is the refuge of the simple.

Animavore wrote:I

They did on two occassions in South Park try to tackle atheism but on neither of them were they able to actually mock the worldview itself.

That there's the rub. Atheism isn't a worldview.

Well, It's a worldview in the way that not thinking there's a psychopath called Rupert living next door is a worldview.

One probably behaves differently to people who do think there's a psychopath called Rupert living next door, but while (if the subject comes up) failing to see those people as defining 'normality'.

tolman wrote:Well, It's a worldview in the way that not thinking there's a psychopath called Rupert living next door is a worldview.

How does that affect your daily life? It doesn't.

tolman wrote:One probably behaves differently to people who do think there's a psychopath called Rupert living next door, but while (if the subject comes up) failing to see those people as defining 'normality'.

Thing is the other people are affected by that belief, not the a-Rupertists.

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

tolman wrote:Well, It's a worldview in the way that not thinking there's a psychopath called Rupert living next door is a worldview.

How does that affect your daily life? It doesn't.

Well, someone could argue that it does compared to someone who thought differently, but of course the killer point is that the person who doesn't think there's a psycho living next door doesn't even need to have any knowledge or awareness of that from one minute to the next or one week or month or year to the next.

If someone chooses to call *that* as a worldview, then unless they're being dishonest or very stupid, they can't then claim it's the same kind of thing as religion (which is usually the intent), because their [re]definition of 'worldview' has clearly been set up to include almost anything within it, rendering it meaningless as a means of classifying things into kinds of things and arguing about similarlity.