I am an atheist, ask me anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you make fun of those who believe?

Anonymously or not?

OP here. No, I am uncomfortable around them though.

You realize you are pre judging them based on thier beliefs, isn't that what you don't want them to do to you.

They don't know that I am uncomfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since you don't have a soul. Is it ok to kill you like a bug or a mouse?

OP here. It is not ok to kill me

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Anonymous wrote:NP of course it's possible to be an atheist and still believe murder is wrong. One does not have to be religious to have ethics and morals. PS I do not kill mice or bugs, nor do I eat meat, and I also am an atheist.

OP here. Civility forms my moral code and as humans, civility has been evolving for thousands of years.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm personally agnostic. I do lean more toward not believing in a higher power than believing. But I am unable to make the full leap. To me there is currently no way to prove or disprove the existence of a higher power.

My question for the true Atheist; How are you absolutely certain there is no higher power?

Not the OP, but another atheist. I am not "absolutely certain there is no higher power." Logically, it's very difficult to prove a negative, and to quote Voltaire, "While doubt is an uncomfortable position, certainty is a ridiculous one."

However, I do not affirmatively believe in a "higher power," and, in the absence of evidence demonstrating the existence of such an entity, I see no reason to conduct my life as if one exists. If someone provides scientifically testable evidence that a "higher power" exists, or if I end up in some kind of afterlife, I'll have to modify my belief structure.

There's no difference between my outlook on the monotheistic deity(ies) (as well as all other deities) and the way Christians act towards the Egyptian/Norse/Greek/Roman/pick an ancient culture of your choice pantheons.

OP here, I guess it's just a difference in how we define agnostic and atheist. The difference to me between atheism and agnosticism is atheism involves what a person does or does not believe and agnosticism involves what a person does or does not know. My life is driven by what I know rather than what I believe. And my thirst for knowledge is driven by what I don't know.

You are not the OP. I am.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^If it's ok to kill a cow or an ant. What is the atheist reason one human without a soul should feel guilty of killing another human without a soul ?

Op here. I am not sure about guilt or innocence but the murderer can not be trusted in society so he or she needs to be locked up.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

So it's ok and there is no good reason to feel guilty as long as you don't get caught. Now I understand. You are a bug with a stronger defense mechanism but still no more valuable than a bug universally speaking.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

So it's ok and there is no good reason to feel guilty as long as you don't get caught. Now I understand. You are a bug with a stronger defense mechanism but still no more valuable than a bug universally speaking.

You go around intentionally killing bugs? You're ok with that? You don't think bugs and insects are also god's creatures?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

So it's ok and there is no good reason to feel guilty as long as you don't get caught. Now I understand. You are a bug with a stronger defense mechanism but still no more valuable than a bug universally speaking.

Not OP but you have kind of wrecked this thread with your nonsensical strings of words.

[Anonymous]

I kill spiders , cockroaches , termites , stinkbugs , ants with insecticide and probably many others accidentally . And I don't feel guilty.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

So it's ok and there is no good reason to feel guilty as long as you don't get caught. Now I understand. You are a bug with a stronger defense mechanism but still no more valuable than a bug universally speaking.

Not OP but you have kind of wrecked this thread with your nonsensical strings of words.

Actually my question is completely logical. It seems to me that the soulless atheists sense of self worth is on very shaky ground logically.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you make fun of those who believe?

Anonymously or not?

OP here. No, I am uncomfortable around them though.

You realize you are pre judging them based on thier beliefs, isn't that what you don't want them to do to you.

They don't know that I am uncomfortable.

So it is okay to be prejudice if the person you are prejudice against does not know?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the act of killing you the same as killing a bug or a mouse?

OP here. No. Not the same. We have courts and prisons. The mice do not.

So it's ok and there is no good reason to feel guilty as long as you don't get caught. Now I understand. You are a bug with a stronger defense mechanism but still no more valuable than a bug universally speaking.

Not OP but you have kind of wrecked this thread with your nonsensical strings of words.

Actually my question is completely logical. It seems to me that the soulless atheists sense of self worth is on very shaky ground logically.

Only if you consider the only measure of value in the universe to be the binary question of whether an entity has a soul. If that's the scale you want to work on, then by your definition (but not mine), neither of us have any more value to the universe than any other entity that you would say doesn't have a soul. If that's truly how you measure your own value - ie your only value to the universe is that you have a soul that is valued by your deity - then I pity you. I hope you find some other way help you believe that your existence has some value.

However, if we work from a more generally accepted framework of morals and ethics, which are generally considered capable of existing regardless of the existence of a deity, then the existence or possession of a soul is no longer the criteria by which an entity is worthy of not being arbitrarily killed.

There's plenty of material out there on moral and ethical frameworks if you choose to look into it. Otherwise, you can keep trolling atheist discussion and derive your personal value, such as it is, from that.

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^^ lol .. Your self and value as an entity comes from "generally accepted morals and ethics" ... Weird religion dude.

Would that be like.. The Ten Commandments ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ lol .. Your self and value as an entity comes from "generally accepted morals and ethics" ... Weird religion dude.

Would that be like.. The Ten Commandments ?

Not PP, but the four commandments having to do with God and the sabbath are not relevant to atheists. Variations on the other commandments are found in most human societies, historical and modern.