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Is there a way to somehow only see which posts are new? I don't use Reddit much because most threads fork into a lot of different mini-discussions within that same thread and it's hard to tell which are new.
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And/or if they are responding to things that YOU said, you can look at the red envelope in the top right area, click there, and it will show you those newest things. There might be one other thing I'm not thinking of. Good luck! |
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I can't believe a comedian I've seen on network TV many times just taught me how to use Reddit. That's pretty cool. heh |
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If the goal is to, as you say, "help describe the definition," then stop if you've already achieved that goal. If someone gives you a description of their beliefs, don't translate it into a label and then back into a definition. On that reddit page, someone had a good response, something about how atheism is essentially a reaction to theism. Literally, it means "without theism," and wouldn't exist if people weren't being all theistic. It's not that atheists started going around yelling that there was no god. It was only in response to people who were like "there's a god!" that atheism reared its reactive head. Another point I liked over there was the distinction that atheism is not necessarily a belief in a lack of a god, but rather a lack of a belief. And you're welcome. By the end of this I'll have taught you all about the internet and godlessness! |
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It's short, pithy statements like this that really help (well, help me at least). Not to say the longer posts aren't informative, but this is like finding a diamond. I'm going to think (and drink) over this for a while... |
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I don't post a lot of reactions in that thread because I know they'd get down-voted and not seen anyway. The Internet includes as many idiots as general society. And I should admit, I actually haven't listened to Godless yet, nor Papa Don't Preach. They're queued up and ready to go though.. lol. Should be tonight. |
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Look here: History of atheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And here: Paleolithic religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Human (pre)-history goes back a couple million years, and religious practices possibly hundreds of thousands of that, at least 30,000 according to this. "Atheism" as a term was only coined a few hundred years ago, and there's only a record of the concept as far back as a few thousand years. The redditor came to the conclusion that theism had to happen first because "atheism" means "without theism." You can't have a concept of "without" unless you already have "with." It's like calling everyone "non-smokers" before the invention of fire. Saying that Australopithecus were all non-smokers seems to me to be missing something. Before smoking, there were no smokers nor non-smokers. Also, I don't think any of this specifically matters to the larger point of this discussion. But we're having fun! |
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It's also been explained to me that history should be divided into science/pre-science. Scientific reasoning is an extremely powerful tool that we all grew up with so it's easy to neglect how important it is in helping us understand the world around us. Before science, people explained the world around them by anthropomorphizing natural phenomenons. A large and powerful man can pick up a heavy boulder. Scale that concept up and you explain the Sun rising because a large a powerful being made it so. Humans have a long history of belief in the supernatural. It's only relatively recently that we've become more enlightened. |
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