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you mean that they're being brash
Look
This is me
I am the guy who enjoyed making fun of post-rock and was like what the fuck is this shit literally six months ago
How Strange, Innocence, is in my top five albums right now
I'm only 24 dude. I also find plenty of deep and beautiful meaning in life. I have just never seen evidence for the existence of a soul. I also fail to see how we are anything other than the most complex lifeforms on the planet. Why is life any less beautiful or meaningful that way? Simplicity is truth and truth is beauty after all.
-Oscar Wilde
yes I know you goof
I don't expect Meiz to go "oh fuck you're right I forgot"
is that really that album's cover art?
it's hideous
Yes I am surprised by your admission, but in the end, it's still just
OPINIONS
yes
I mean I do think there's a correlation between brash atheists and vehemently denying the possibility of any "meaning" in life
and as these brash atheists get older they begin to feel that this sort of lifestyle isn't benefiting them as much as they think it does and they begin to (almost grudgingly) turn from their strictly scientific set of beliefs
maybe this is just a weird localized thing that only I have experienced though
this is a better one
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edit:I also have a personal pet peeve with misuse of the term 'open minded'.
even their cover art is ironic
It means people who believe that we are bags of meat that are born and when we die our consciousness is extinguished and there's no such things as souls or energy or God or any greater meaning
people who ground the entirety of their beliefs in science
I guess these are close enough to the jism police.
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from 50 yards anyway
tBemis: I don't like it when 'open-minded' is used to mean 'happy to accept wishful thinking and conjecture' rather than 'open to having their mind changed'. For example, it's not 'open minded' to believe in ghosts, it's irrational. On the other hand, if you accept someone's point of view, and adopt it, based on a strong argument or evidence for it, even if you have to reject a preconception, that's open minded. That's how I see it, in any case.
bongi there's an excellent video from. . .I can't recall who, who goes into that in more detail. Open-mindedness is no good without critical thinking skills.
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yes i agree with that pretty completely
yes but I also haven't seen behavior in you that would indicate that you're the type of vitriolic atheist who believes that religion is worthless and spirituality is unconditionally stupid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
edit: oops
oh dang it's by dawkins? that guy is a dick
kitty police!
kitty jism?
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well that's what I'm referring to
that as people grow older they are more likely to go from die-hard atheist/physicalists (I don't know that term) to a more spiritual or at least less vitriolic point of view
Shank is just saying there are people who believe in a certain thing vehemently for a long time then come to realise that maybe, just maybe, they weren't so right all along, and they shift their viewpoints accordingly.
edit: In this case the the "thing" is atheism or what have you.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalist
I believe it's true of teenagers who take the beliefs on even if it's not "teenage rebellion"
critical thinking changes an awful lot between fifteen and thirty
I guess that plays a part in shaping your views.
Huh.
it's not a claim, it's an observation
nothing arrogant about an observation
Well, it is Shank we're talking about here.