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  • Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive positions.

    Theism is a belief structure.

    Gnosticism (I’m not talking about that Gnosticism) is a knowledge structure.

    Everyone is one of the following:

    • gnostic theist - I know (and believe) God exists
    • agnostic theist - I believe God exists (but I don’t know)
    • agnostic atheist - I don’t believe God exists (and I can’t know)
    • gnostic atheist - I know (and believe) God doesn’t exist

    Funnily enough, being a gnostic atheist is the weakest epistemic stance because of the burden of proof. The stubbornness is baked into the assertion.

    The second weakest position is gnostic theism. These people are simply using logical fallacies as a post-hoc vehicle to arrive at the truth they want.

    The third weakest position is agnostic theism, and it’s one religion actually wears as a badge of honour; Faith.

    Finally, agnostic atheism, the truly enlightened finish line:

    “I don’t know if God exists or not, but I know enough to spot a bullshit argument, and I have not heard a compelling argument for why I should believe in something I cannot verify”





  • The federation is community owned (which is why you see so many communists here).

    Lemmy itself is not a single instance, it’s merely the technical development of the platform itself.

    You are a user of the sh.itjust.works domain, who is owned by a real person.

    There are bad Lemmy instances you don’t want to be part of, and the owner of sh.itjust.works has blocked that instance, you’ll never even know it was there.

    There is no single author of a list of instances which are defederared, but many instances simply piggyback off the blocklist another instance uses (lemmy.world for example).






  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    As someone with a three and a half year old who goes to daycare, who sometimes does finger-painting, or sings songs, and tells stories about being pushed by this girl named Farron, all I can say is haha I fucking got you, you read about my kids day and now yours is ruined lolololol.