/shrugs...,...you simply deny believing......that is different.....
I do not do "believing."
Shrug all you want.
/shrugs...,...you simply deny believing......that is different.....
Poor triggered Francis...
Why should they not???
My name is not Francis.
I "decided" to go with the truth. That is what I decided.
I KNOW I do not know if gods exist or not.
I see no reason to suppose they cannot exist,
I see no reason to supposes they must exist,
I do not see enough unambiguous evidence to make a reasonable guess...
...so I don't.
Agnosticism seems to me to be the reasonable way to go.
If there are gods...they will have to live with that being how I feel...or suck wind.
Matters not to me.
Frankly, if there are gods like most theists fear...they are not worth respect, let alone worship or devotion.
My name is not Francis.
I do not do "believing."
I do some wondering, though. And one of the things I wonder about is:
Why do people like you obsess about me, USF? What power do I have over you?
And why does it set you into a frenzy because I do not do "believing."
I wonder about it...and laugh, often out loud, while I am wondering.
It's called "hedging your bet", Francis and it probably came to you while you didn't know if you would survive the cancer; because you probably didn't believe you would.
But you can only believe there is no God, Francis; because if you knew it, you would proclaim yourself an atheist.
If the god he (and the others) imagine does exist...
...NONE of them will pass muster!!!
But you just admitted to believing, Francis; because you can't know for certain that I'm obsessing about you, nor can you know I go into a frenzy.
How do you know, Francis, that they won't pass muster or is that what you believe?
My name is not Francis.
You did get one thing right. I didn't believe I would survive. I also didn't believe I would not survive.
That is because I do not do "believing."
You are fun.
My name is not Francis.
I do not "believe" there are any gods...and...I do not "believe" there are no gods.
That is because I do not do "believing."
Sorry that bothers you as much as it does.
My name is not Francis.
And it certainly appears to me that you obsess over me.
And you do seem to go into a frenzy.
I do not know for sure...but I'm guessing in that direction.
But...I do not do "believing."
My name is not Francis.
I certainly do not KNOW they won't...and since I do not do "believing"...it is a guess or an opinion.
Sorry I get your goat the way I do.
It must be hell for you.
I do enjoy it...so the "sorry" is kinda sarcasm. Ya know?
But Francis, that would mean you either knew you were going to survive or that you knew you were going to survive.
So which one did you believe was going to occur, Francis?
Doesn't bother me, Francis; because I rather enjoy pointing out that since you don't know what you believe in, you therefore can't believe in what you say you "know".
Since you believe it appears so, Francis, explains why you think you know it's so.
But Francis; you didn't preface it with a "I guess" and appeared to be presenting it as something you knew.
But you have no way of knowing, unless you believe it to be so.