[expat_panama]

So Jake said that absolutes absolutely do not exist?

To be fair I have to tell you that he was aware of the paradox, but he's a pragmatist and was only willing to accept a pragmatic proof.   We met with agreement only we we concluded that it was useful to notice for example, that reasonable people will independently arrive at a common realization of the value of community service (translation: love your neighbor as yourself).

He calls himself an 'atheist'-- a word that describes only what he doesn't believe, and nothing of what he does believe.  I honestly feel that with time we could have agreed on a common concept of our Creator. 

[aruanan]

He calls himself an 'atheist'-- a word that describes only what he doesn't believe, and nothing of what he does believe.  I honestly feel that with time we could have agreed on a common concept of our Creator. 

If he's going to be pragmatic, he should call himself an agnostic, describing only what he does not yet know, rather than an atheistic, which makes a blanket statement about reality that would require of him knowledge that he does not and, especially by his pragmatist philosophy, cannot have.