tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post7767941718443243040..comments2023-10-02T06:24:02.729-04:00Comments on The Huntress' Domain: Oh, Atheist, Your Life Must Be So Empty and DepressingArtemis311http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202412794798410063noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-41787986387244579312008-04-27T20:22:00.000-04:002008-04-27T20:22:00.000-04:00I would like to thank you both so much. I am doing...I would like to thank you both so much. I am doing a research report on atheism and how it should be touched upon in schools. Your blog has really helped me with my overall understanding of the topicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-4134303317367838492008-03-12T01:06:00.000-04:002008-03-12T01:06:00.000-04:00The primary thing I was trying to chime in on, was...The primary thing I was trying to chime in on, was the No True Scotsman thing. There was a very qualified reason for me saying the No True Christian statement that you predicted in your first quote. I had hoped to avoid that mumbo jumbo but it seems the journey required it.<BR/><BR/>All we’ve said so far is that your first reply does not discount my first post. God can exist, or perhaps He Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08834930120235770570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-59536773860172031992008-03-11T22:01:00.000-04:002008-03-11T22:01:00.000-04:00I'm not sure I'm reading your comment right, becau...I'm not sure I'm reading your comment right, because as I read it, it seems to have consequences that I suspect you would find unsavory. <BR/><BR/>You are 100% correct that you can only have a relationship with something that exists. As the Santa Claus case demonstrates, however, you can take yourself to have a relationship with something that does not exist, what you refer to as a "believed Artemis311https://www.blogger.com/profile/15202412794798410063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-35515403542933828352008-03-11T19:01:00.000-04:002008-03-11T19:01:00.000-04:00When discussing terms, I feel we should mutually a...When discussing terms, I feel we should mutually attempt to stick to the definitions generally accepted as a culture, dictionary definitions if possible. The dictionary definition for relationship is (1)The condition or fact of being related; connection or association. (2) Connection by blood or marriage; kinship. (3) A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08834930120235770570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-29970512806971947392008-03-11T17:40:00.000-04:002008-03-11T17:40:00.000-04:00Josh,Wikipedia has a nice short explanation of the...Josh,<BR/><BR/>Wikipedia has a nice short explanation of the No True Scotsman fallacy. If you're interested, you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman<BR/><BR/>Your distinction between devotion and relationship seems very plausible. I would be very interested to hear what you take a relationship with God to consist in, though. Would you be willing to say more? Artemis311https://www.blogger.com/profile/15202412794798410063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-16511142037154293702008-03-11T09:34:00.000-04:002008-03-11T09:34:00.000-04:00Since you predict that I would next reply that you...Since you predict that I would next reply that you had not really had a true relationship with God, that saves us most the trouble of going down that road. I am unfamiliar with the No True Scotsman fallacy, if you want to elaborate that's fine, if not, just as well.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to go into doctrine about how devotion bears no relevance to relationship. But I'll simply state that what humans Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08834930120235770570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-71301098174370826162008-03-11T07:05:00.000-04:002008-03-11T07:05:00.000-04:00Josh,Thanks for the comment.I might have been will...Josh,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment.<BR/><BR/>I might have been willing to accept your argument had I not once been a theist. Your point seems to be that I do not view my life as unfulfilled because I have never experienced true fulfullment, which, I'm assuming given the context of the post, you take to come from a relationship with god. Well, I was raised in a very religious household. I went Artemis311https://www.blogger.com/profile/15202412794798410063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971794926291569801.post-75809172703565370632008-03-11T00:05:00.000-04:002008-03-11T00:05:00.000-04:00Of course you are confident. You have no need to n...Of course you are confident. You have no need to not be confident. A person who has never heard an instrument properly played feels no shame in attempting to play it his/herself. In the same way, finding one's own meaning must be quite fulfilling when the only substitution would be no meaning at all.<BR/><BR/>I don't expect you to be empty or alone, any more than I would expect a blind person toAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08834930120235770570noreply@blogger.com