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  1. gowlerk
    I haven't set up an ad in a while. But you have a choice of a free ad or a paid ad. You missed a step somewhere. There is a "save ad" button at the bottom centre of the setup page.
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    No doubt. It clearly is not designed to be so. This is how high pressure annoying salespeople in places like Best Buy are compensated. You know the ones I mean. The ones that keep pushing the "extended warranty".
  3. gowlerk
    This is such a cool and unusual job opening that personally I feel your post is justified. But it is an ad. To post an ad go to the main classified page. On the right side just above the categories list is an orangish coloured box labeled "submit an ad". Click it and follow the directions.
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    I just posted about the lack of emoji capability in suggestions and feedback. Go there and add your voice!
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    How can it be in this new updated and supposedly mobile friendly forum we are limited to 21 emoji's? When I try to keyboard add a different one it is not allowed.
  6. gowlerk
    Does a dog have consciousness? Does it have morals? It certainly has behaviors with social rules. (This question is not solely directed at you.)
  7. gowlerk
    Sort of like the Trump family.......but not the culture of Australia in general.
  8. gowlerk
    Oh yeah? Sez who? That is a giant leap you've just made there. One that you can't back up. You can't have a mind without an oxygen and glucose consuming physical brain with neurons firing across synapses. If concepts do not exist within the brain then they simply do not exist at all.
  9. gowlerk
    You should research that one. Much has been written of it, none of it answers the question. As far as any of us know each of us is the only one with a mind and everything and everyone else is a construct of that mind. Many people have come to believe this deeply enough to go crazy, I'm going to try to stay sane and believe that you and everyone else exist. I may be wrong.
  10. gowlerk
    Where would you imagine any "concept" to exist? They are not physical constructs, they are mental constructs. Therefore they "exist" in our minds as such.
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    Just because I can not prove something, or understand something, does not make it non-physical. My feeling is that everything is physical, but we are not capable of understand it all. If there were a heaven and a hell they would both be physical in nature. However, I don't believe in either, so in my mind they are not physical. Anymore than unicorns are.
  12. gowlerk
    Well that's pretty simple. It's the same as the difference between admitting you don't know something and saying that you do know something. If you say you know something and want me to believe you, you will need either evidence or a track record that I trust. This gets to the reason I never ask someone like Ron for example to justify or prove his beliefs are objectively true. He can't, I know it and he knows it. So it's pointless. I try to never ask someone for proof, so your question makes an assumption that I do something that I don't.
  13. gowlerk
    They are funny. They lead into a joke using stories. What you do is different. First you make a political statement, usually completely off topic, and then you say something mean about a group of people. Comedy takes skill. Stick to skydiving, you likely have skill in that area.
  14. gowlerk
    Those are concepts, morals and values have no spiritual component in my way of thinking. Math is a concept that can be used as a tool, but it is not a physical thing. Same as morality.
  15. gowlerk
    Christianity does not hold morality at it's core. It teaches that all sin can be absolved through Christ. It is nearly completely immoral in that regard. To me spirituality simply means wonder or awe, an acknowledgement all things are connected in some way that we can not ever understand. I am atheist because I say I am. I am spiritual because I am human and my consciousness must have some way of dealing the mystery of existence. Is this the inconsistency you are trying to understand?
  16. gowlerk
    As far as I know criminality is not hereditary. Perhaps you can point to something that shows otherwise? Oh yes, of course it's a joke. You love jokes that denigrate others.
  17. gowlerk
    Yes, hundreds of them out there being used. They are reliable to do what they are designed to do. How well it will perform in your application will depend on how you use it.
  18. gowlerk
    This has now gone off into a discussion of theology. Which was inevitable. The thread is supposed to be about "positive side of organized religion". Which would be a study of sociology, not beliefs.
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    I strongly disagree with this. And the reason is right in your sentence. You have put "spiritual" into quotes. Why? Because you know that it can not be defined. I would hold that the reason it can't be defined is that it is essentially meaningless. It is simply a term used to denote that which we feel but can not show. A lot like "truthiness".
  20. gowlerk
    Are you a physicist? Have you looked at or made an effort to understand current theories of the nature of the universe? Even within the confines of "physical reality" there is a lot of room for beliefs. You can try to define what atheism means in your mind, but it will only apply to you. Just as no two Christians will proclaim the exact same beliefs. It is the nature of being human that each of us has our own individual struggle with the nature of existence.
  21. gowlerk
    Like I said, splitting hairs. The title of the thread is inconsistencies with atheism. An atheist is anyone who calls themselves one. Morality is a concept invented by man. It is as flexible in meaning as any one person wants it to be. The good lord knows that the moral standard one expects his neighbor to adhere to is not always the same as the one he is willing to live up to himself. There are no inherently moral or immoral acts in the universe. There are only the standards we set for ourselves and each other.
  22. gowlerk
    a·the·ist /ˈāTHēəst/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: atheist; plural noun: atheists a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. "he is a committed atheist" This is a splitting of hairs,. The sort of thing thing theologians are famous for wasting time on. Let's just settle on the fact that both words refer to non-believers.
  23. gowlerk
    Man is a social animal. Our morals come directly from our need for cooperation in order to thrive. An atheist's morals and values come from the same place as a religious organization gets theirs. A long history of taboos and rules that form the framework that we build our society upon. As always enforced by laws that in theory we all have to abide by. There are as many religious people by proportion to the population in our prisons as atheists or any other group. I'm not sure how you can even raise this question. Either you did not think much about it, or more likely you are just promoting debate.
  24. gowlerk
    Stampede is the common English language word for this kind of tragic event. Do you have a different word you would propose to sooth your offended feelings. And dry your crocodile, er....turtle tears? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_stampedes_and_crushes Human stampedes and crushes. Crushes often occur during religious pilgrimages and large entertainment events, as they tend to involve dense crowds, with people closely surrounded on all sides.
  25. gowlerk
    Arson long predates the current politicization of the science of studying climate. Cynicism predates even that no doubt.