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According the Beeb (BBC):
At least 137 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police and hospital sources say.
At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo's Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services.
The Shangri-La, Kingsbury, Cinnamon Grand and a fourth hotel, all in Colombo, were also hit.
A curfew has been imposed from 18:00 to 06:00 local time (12:30-00:30 GMT).
The government also said there would a temporary block on the use of major social media networks.
No group has yet said it was responsible for the attacks.
Update:"At least 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police say."
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:45PM (5 children)
Category error. Agnosticism is a knowledge claim: one claims to have knowledge or not have it. A/theism is a faith claim: one claims to have a belief. I for example am an agnostic theist (well, agnostic sorta-Deist, but yeah). Meaning I believe there's a God but have the epistemological humility to understand the atheists, agnostic or gnostic, may well be correct.
Atheism is a religion like "unplugged" is a TV channel or "bald" is a hairstyle.
No one is going to take you seriously when you keep spewing this amateur bullshit. That you'd ever even think of posting it shows that you're either amazingly ignorant and unthinking, or worse, know exactly how wrong it is and post it anyway for rhetorical purposes, which makes you a willful liar at best.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 22 2019, @04:47PM (4 children)
>Atheism is a religion like "unplugged" is a TV channel or "bald" is a hairstyle.
"god does not exist" is a phrase that, no matter its truth value, contains one glaring problem if you are naive, three if you are nitpicking.
I have expanded on this several times already.
So, atheism is a religion like channel fuchsia is a TV channel or pepper is a hairstyle.
Agnosticism is I don't know the channel, I don't know the hairstyle.
unplugged does not belong to the abstraction TV channels just like fuchsia, bald does not belong to hairstyle just like pepper.
An objection stating an equivalent of what I said is quite difficult to accept or counter.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 22 2019, @10:48PM (3 children)
So we both think gnostic atheists are full of shit. So what? They may still be right, even if they got there by fallacious means (beware of the Fallacy Fallacy! Tail-recurse on THAT one for a bit...).
People can make whatever claims they want. Epistemology has its limits, including an unfortunate tendency to get backed into a corner and eaten by a basilisk of one sort or another. You must be the meal to end all meals for the one that got you, you poor son of a bitch...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 23 2019, @11:00AM (2 children)
In fact the conclusion of atheists about the ineffable god's domain does not concern me. I am bothered by the fact that they call out other religions only to reason just like the inquisitors. Plus, when simple counterexamples show the limits of application of logic, they try to rationalize that instead of accepting that. I don't refer to keyboad warriors but apparently thought out sites like Rational wiki. Whatever.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 24 2019, @09:14PM (1 child)
Ahh, so your problem is that you think atheists are just as bad as you, but don't have the ability to go "My daddy can beat up your daddy" to back it up. Duly noted. Might makes right in your worldview, and I've noticed that from day one.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday April 25 2019, @07:52AM
I'll try to be more clear.
Normal religion: "God told me..." unfalsifiable but unprovable. All OK.
Theocracy: "God told me and you better agree" unprovable and totalitarian. Trouble.
Atheist: "God icecream because the smell of purple is the square root of 5". Provably devoid of a defining structure and a logical structure. They get away with it only because they use terms and logic passages WE ARE USED TO apply in other contexts.
Agnostic: "Well you really can't say" provable and devoid of consequences. All OK.
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