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    How to Argue for Atheism Effectively

    The belief that unalienable rights were endowed by a Creator doesn't prevent (in practice) governments, regimes, rulers, et al. from trampling on them while merely alleging (using doublespeak, equivocation, etc.) that they're not doing so, and on the other side of that coin, a nation could...
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    How to Argue for Atheism Effectively

    I can tell I must not be following the strict cognitive/philosophical guidelines set forth by resident philosophical theists when my genuinely curious questions go ignored. Since philosophical theists generally will not commit to any teachings of any particular religion, or to any specific or...
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    Many US companies pay their executives more than they pay taxes

    This topic needs to include acknowledgement and intelligent discussion of equity compensation, why it's different from wage and salary expense, and the various implications of each. The highest paid executives are not paid those amounts from the company's expenses. They're paid those amounts...
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    How to Argue for Atheism Effectively

    Even if we accepted that idea, that we "owe our existence to a Creator," what would that actually mean? Therefore what? What would that mean we should think or do?
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    Government mass surveillance is worse now than anything Snowden revealed

    Who or what would we entrust to outlaw it? What would enforcing a ban on this actually look like?
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    If it just so happens to be working well for you right now, that's great, but even in your case, if one or a couple of your employees were not cutting it, not doing the essence of the job you really needed them to do, undermining your mission or business's reputation, and your feedback prompted...
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    This is another thought I've had about the underlying sentiment of Diangelo's arguments. She has said: "The problem with white people," she says, "is that they just don't listen. In my experience, day in and day out, most white people are absolutely not receptive to finding out their impact on...
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    I wouldn't even necessarily say I disagree with her, or with you, about any number of things related to this. But I still find any ideology or approach very problematic when it's introduced by preemptively labeling any and all disagreement or silence as proving oneself correct. A circularly...
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    Attacking the author in this way is myopic. If corporations, governments and universities are eager to pay tons of money for someone to pontificate about race relations, people are going to volunteer to do that for them. Why attack whoever is willing to accept the money to pontificate? The...
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    What she's "really saying" is clear, it's just that it clearly has irredeemable problems, most significant of which is that she sets up a concept that preempts any possible disagreement and any non-participation or avoidance as only proving her concept, thus relying fundamentally on blatantly...
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    “White Fragility” is like money in the bank

    Some of the criticisms of her book "White Fragility" include that she is supposedly condescending toward Blacks, or that it "reflects a larger problem: the need among white people to center themselves in public discussions of race." So if even the White Fragility author is attacked for speaking...
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    Atheists—the most unaccepted minority in the United States

    Byproducts from blood can be converted into a wide variety of potentially valuable industrial, pharmaceutical, agricultural, nutritional and other products, so when all the seas and oceans turn to blood as that dude John that wrote Revelation predicted, we will suddenly have a virtually...
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    Atheists—the most unaccepted minority in the United States

    Are you seriously asking me how a list of incorrect past predictions of when the events from the Book of Revelation would happen is related to the Book of Revelation? Then all the noise people make predicting when the end of the world is going to happen is what is truly irrelevant.
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    Atheists—the most unaccepted minority in the United States

    Here are just a handful of times people were pretty sure the apocalyptic stuff from the Book of Revelation would happen: Predicted date Claimant 500 Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus, Irenaeus 1260 Joachim of Fiore 1370 Jean de Roquetaillade 1504 Sandro Botticelli 20...
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    A Case for Atheism

    Depending on 1) the agenda of the person asking and 2) the way respondents define/conceptualize/understand the words being used to present/describe the dichotomy, any of them could be. If your agenda were to make yourself appear like you've philosophically outsmarted everyone in the room, you...
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