Bald is not a hairstyle if hair no longer grows.
Bald is a hairstyle if you shaved the hair off.
Is Atheism a belief?
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Bald is not a hairstyle if hair no longer grows.
Bald is a hairstyle if you shaved the hair off.
Should I ask this to every bald person I meet, or just call it a hairstyle to avoid offending them?
Putting this back into atheism-mode, it doesn't really work:
Should I ask every atheist whether they consider it a belief, or just assume they believe to avoid offense?
Many atheists would take offense if you did call it a belief.
I believe if they're not actually bald but remove all their hair manually, it's considered 'shaved'. I've never heard anyone refer to it as a bald cut. Getting your head shaved is a thing, getting your head balded doesn't make a lick of sense. Applying this to atheism gets you to atheism being baldness and anti-theism being shaved. Makes perfect sense!
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. Good points.
Atheism isn't a belief...it's a lack of belief.
Theism: The belief in a deity.
A/theism: Not theism.
A belief is something that you hold true. Does me not holding the existence of deity as true equate to me holding the the non existence of a deity as true?
Does not x equal y?
Does not yes equal no?
Does not love equal hate?
Does not white equal black?
etc etc
The world isn't yes or no.
Theism-Yes.
Atheism-Not yes. (That could mean no, maybe, I don't know, perhaps, possible, blue or monkey). As long as it's "not yes" it's atheism.
At least under my definition of atheism. (Which is debatable but in the end is just semantics)..
My $0.02
Theism: The belief in a deity.
A/theism: Not theism.
A belief is something that you hold true. Does me not holding the existence of deity as true equate to me holding the the non existence of a deity as true?
Does not x equal y?
Does not yes equal no?
Does not love equal hate?
Does not white equal black?
etc etc
The world isn't yes or no.
Theism-Yes.
Atheism-Not yes. (That could mean no, maybe, I don't know, perhaps, possible, blue or monkey). As long as it's "not yes" it's atheism.
At least under my definition of atheism. (Which is debatable but in the end is just semantics)..
My $0.02
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_atheism
Implicit atheism isn't, but explicit atheism is.
Oh, not by any means.
Implicit atheism isn't, but explicit atheism is.
Oh, not by any means.
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