On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Kim Jones<kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: On 29 Mar 2017, at 3:32 pm, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 10:30 am, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: On 29 Mar 2017, at 10:22 am, 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: Couldn't an athiest instead be open to, for example, a mathematical foundation from which that which we perceive as being matter emerges? Sure - but then they wouldn't need to identify with atheism. They could just call themselves - wait for it - "mathematicians". But if they are asked if they believe in Zeus or Yahweh or Krishna and they say "no", then they are atheists. If I say that I do not believe that rap "music" is real music does that make me unmusical? Hard, even impossible perhaps, to say anything about anything, with absolute certainty... but it does suggest your mind is closed to rap music (sans the gratuitous quotes you elected to color the word usage with) -Chris K -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.