Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v]andrak|=e2=89=a1xX?= Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic Subject: Re: Blasphemy Day Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:04:40 -0500 Lines: 76 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2CAA1C99000440E97000038F638F@news.eternal-september.org> <3f3d9828-35ba-4eb8-0d8e-49e83b83516c@carrot.papaya> <8shpfj5pqbfacnttp4ei5mnfepnnn155th@4ax.com> <22201763-b808-d1a4-b787-079dea304b18@ashikaga.tokugawa> <8734leqyh7.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> <2cf4512a-8be6-647f-8a7f-a2b3d81d7bc8@ashikaga.tokugawa> <20c2725c-d461-2c24-ac96-04a734fe35bb@shinku.aoyagi.konjou> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PWCYC2mci6LZwbKPOylP4g8kRd4XDIaa8Tz99DDNJqxLLfAGrS Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ERY2iLvK6JQYHYf8lgQItRo9rQ= sha256:0xPBtga/r9aCkvae2KiV1fC846JSawJ3Q8srw++DAeo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:3436359 talk.atheism:103121 alt.agnosticism:78396 talk.philosophy.humanism:1945 sci.skeptic:113184 jojo wrote: > Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote: >> jojo wrote: >>> Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote: >>>> jojo wrote: >>>>> anthk wrote: >>>>>> On 2024-10-02, shogun wrote: >>>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote: >>>>>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:08:20 -0700, the following appeared >>>>>>>> in sci.skeptic, posted by Don_from_AZ >>>>>>>> : >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> shogun writes: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:16:28 +0000, the following appeared in >>>>>>>>>>> sci.skeptic, posted by sora : >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> David Dalton wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> Sept. 30 is Blasphemy Day, which from Wikipedia “educates >>>>>>>>>>>>> individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends >>>>>>>>>>>>> freedom >>>>>>>>>>>>> of expression, especially the open criticism of religion >>>>>>>>>>>>> which is >>>>>>>>>>>>> criminalized in many countries”. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> religion from 2k or 1k or 200 or even 50 years ago is no longer >>>>>>>>>>>> relevant. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Relevant to what? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> relevant to helping people navigate life in 2020s and post. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It's relevant if you live anywhere in the Islamic controlled >>>>>>>>> world, and >>>>>>>>> many other places as well. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yep. The answer to which you replied is hopelessly >>>>>>>> parochial; "it's irrelevant to my immediate social circle, >>>>>>>> therefore it's irrelevant for everyone and everywhere". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> i would regard religious people as fundamentally wrong, being on >>>>>>> the wrong side of history. being wrong also means it provides no >>>>>>> benefit to its adherents. they are choosing to become obsolete. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The closest to a religion I'd believe would be >>>>>> synchronicity+pansichysm, but far from >>>>>> any judeo-christian/islamic sect or dogma. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> there might be something to synchronicity, but panpsychism.... ehhh >>>>> dont think so. >>>>> >>>> >>>> No one's saying there's synchronicity jojo. >>> >>> you are saying it, you are saying there is panpsychism. >>> >> >> I don't know what that is. > > it means you are connected with everyone and everything in the universe > through some substrate. And your mind is a Spearmint wrapper. With boiling kettle of Bud weisr. -- 1.11 hrs the number of the beast You try to keep me in cages But baby you got to catch me first You think your love is contagious I do my best you cant do your worst "Nonsense." --Joannis PapaOomMowMow