Posted: Jan 31, 2012 11:30 am
amkerman wrote:Spearthrower wrote:amkerman wrote:Spearthrower wrote:
Quite, which is expressly why this group of people with literally "nothing" in common (who ever suggested that?) are all 'up in arms' in our traditional militant, aggressive, condescending, smug and petulant manner.
All atheism is is a "lack of belief in God or gods" correct? Well a lack of belief is an absence of something, it is nothing. All atheist's literally have in common, by virtue of their atheism, is "nothing".
Duh.
How's about our humanity?
Incidentally, amkerman, you and I (and probably everyone here) share our disbelief in fairies. That absence of belief is nothing, so we literally have nothing in common - right?Or is sharing a disbelief in fairies something in common? If society at large believed in fairies, wouldn't our shared disbelief be of somewhat more significance than it otherwise is?
Disbelief is not a lack of belief, you're getting confused between the difference between 1, 0, -1. A disbelief is a negative belief, not an absence of belief.
Pointless semantics.
Both 0 and -1 are not 1.
1 is neither 0 nor -1.
0 and -1 are the same position with respect to 1.
I have 1 apple.
You have 0 apples.
I stole my apple from Fallible who effectively now has -1 apples.
The only person with an apple is me.