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safeinOhio

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1. Thanks for the post.

Wed Jul 30, 2014, 02:39 PM

Jul 2014

I'm a simple, basic kind of person. As for the above labels, I look at myself as none of the above. I look at it as an outsider that thinks it is all very interesting, in an anthropological sense.

I'm terrible at language and this gives me a keen interest in it. Words are symbols and that is all. They can represent an idea or a thing, however they are not the idea or the thing. I can of get a chuckle out of things like flags and crosses. They too are symbols and not the thing or idea. For me words cannot describe what words cannot describe, so I leave it at that.

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Proofs, Disproofs, Labels and Semantics [View all] TygrBright Jul 2014 OP

Thanks for the post. safeinOhio Jul 2014 #1

"Symbols and that is all" TygrBright Jul 2014 #2

Don't give up. rug Jul 2014 #3

Thanks! n/t TygrBright Jul 2014 #4

A couple of thoughts. Jim__ Jul 2014 #5

It was to achieve that, that the concept of a-theism was introduced here, by someone Brettongarcia Jul 2014 #6

While I think we should accept labels others apply to themselves... TygrBright Jul 2014 #7

I see value in both those atheists who just turn quietly to something else; and those who speak out Brettongarcia Jul 2014 #8

So do I. TygrBright Jul 2014 #9

"So how do we achieve freedom from theoarchy?" trotsky Jul 2014 #10

Is there a word I should be using instead of "annihilate?" n/t TygrBright Jul 2014 #11

Confront, criticize, challenge... trotsky Jul 2014 #12

It sounds as though you view "rejecting religion entirely" more as... TygrBright Jul 2014 #13