The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

We're getting into semantics.

I don't believe anything in regards to gods. They are mythical. Fun to read about in a fictional way but that's it. Why bother trying to denounce fiction as fiction. It's fiction. Should I have to buy a T-shirt proclaiming that?

You've put a god in place that you feel I've rejected. He's never existed in my world for over 40 years. How can I reject something that doesn't exist?

Do you reject Santa Claus?

You brought it into semantics dude.

I, for one, reject god's existence. The lack of evidence makes that easy as ****.

[Chula Vista]

Stammering 101. My eyes just rolled out of my head. And it hurts.

President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday that the President should not testify before special counsel Robert Mueller because "our recollection keeps changing."
Giuliani made the comment when asked about fellow Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow's contradictory remarks on whether the President weighed in on a statement put out about his son Donald Trump Jr.'s controversial 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower.
Sekulow co-authored with then-Trump attorney John Dowd a confidential January letter to special counsel Robert Mueller that acknowledged for the first time that Trump "dictated" the 2016 statement, contradicting several public statements by Sekulow and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

Trump lawyers say he 'dictated' the statement on Trump Tower meeting, contradicting past denials
"I think Jay was wrong," Giuliani said on ABC's "This Week." "I mean, this is -- this is the reason you don't let the President testify. If, you know, every, our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question, and somebody makes an assumption, in my case, I made an assumption and then I, then, then we corrected, and I got it right out as soon as, as soon as, as soon as it happened. I think that's what happened here."

[DwnWthVwls]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Do you reject Santa Claus?

Yes.

Later, I'm off to NYC to meet some Swedes.

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Yes.

Later, I'm off to NYC to meet some Swedes.

Blond and female?

[DwnWthVwls]

Actually it's a couple I play video games with. She's from Cuba and he's a natural born Swede.

I'm going out venturing alone tonight and meeting them tomorrow morning to explore the city/central park.

[DwnWthVwls]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I don't think atheism is even the active rejection of anything it simply means "not a theist"

It's the active rejection of the god claim. Rejection doesn't mean claiming it's false, rejection means I'm not convinced it's true.

Much in the same way the court system doesn't prove you innocent, it proves you not guilty.

Adios.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Stammering 101. My eyes just rolled out of my head. And it hurts.

I watched that interview.

I know everyone will sigh because of Trump fatigue but a Giuliani not only looks like an idiot to anyone who can think but he’s also saying some of the most foul **** to ever come out of Trumpland. He is truly a twisted ****.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

It's the active rejection of the god claim. Rejection doesn't mean claiming it's false, rejection means I'm not convinced it's true.

Much in the same way the court system doesn't prove you innocent, it proves you not guilty.

Adios.

[Frownland]

If theism is the one introducing the notion of god(s) into the mix, isn't atheism based on rejection?

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by Frownland

If theism is the one introducing the notion of god(s) into the mix, isn't atheism based on rejection?

Not if you consider theism a fable from the get go.

Definition of theism
: belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world

Fairy tales man.

Funny that I'm totally immersed in Gaimen's American Gods right now.

Give it up guys.