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To: Hank Kerchief

Sorry Hank, But it is SOMETHING. It’s called ‘Independent Thought.’

And it does wonders for the powers of reasoning.

Maybe not start typing if you don’t have at least a little bit of it.

*So I also don’t believe “good comes from atheism,” because it is actually nothing.*


1,027 posted on 06/28/2009 3:40:37 AM PDT by MissTickly
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To: MissTickly

It’s called ‘Independent Thought.’

I see. You call yourself and Atheist, and believe that is thinking independently, just like all the others who call themselves atheists.

I suggested that since Atheism is just identifying oneself in terms of something they don’t believe in, it is silly, because there are endless things one doesn’t believe. I do not know another soul who has ever said that (they may have, but I don’t know it) but according to you, that is not independent thought.

So, in your view, thinking the same thing lots of other people think, and repeating what they’ve taught you is “independent thinking,” but thinking something almost no one else thinks and being able to explain why one thinks it is not independent thinking.

Besides, “independent thinking” is redundant. All thinking is independent—of course a lot of people confuse just anything that goes on in their heads with thinking.

Hank


1,028 posted on 06/28/2009 4:52:15 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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