| August Burns Red – Rationalist Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The whole "belief in unbelief" thing had got me thinking as well, and I think the description applies a lot more towards nihilists, and not atheists or agnostics, or skeptics. And by the way, being a critical thinker, or, skeptic, should be something to be proud of. |
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| August Burns Red – Rationalist Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I made this point earlier, but... Atheism in general is not even a belief. It is actually somebody who DOESN'T have a belief - in a God. You must acknowledge the distinction between NOT BELIEVING SOMETHING and BELIEVING SOMETHING IS FALSE. An atheist doesn't necessarily believe that there is absolutely no God. He is simply not buying what the theist is selling. The fact that we need to have a word for "not believing in a diety" may seem silly, but there it is. |
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| August Burns Red – Rationalist Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It sounds that you haven't spoken with many atheists. You also seem to be confused about the terms "atheist" and "agnostic." The terms are NOT mutually exclusive. You can be both, neither, or one or the other. This is because they address two different inquiries. Theism is the BELIEF in a deity. Adding the a- prefix to theism is basically saying "without theism" or "no theism." It does not get into the depths of theism being empirically false. Simply, if you are not a "theist," then you are atheist by default. Also, atheism is not a belief at all - much the same way that my non-belief of Bigfoot isn't a belief. We don't have a term for "Abigfootists" because the majority of people know it to be myth. I don't think I've met a single atheist who would genuinely claim that "There is definitely no God." Claiming certainty of something's non-existance is just silly, you're going to have trouble trying to prove a negative. However, these people could be defined as "gnostic atheists". FOr all practical terms, I would say there is probably no God, given our current understanding of everything around us. However, since I know it is silly to claim with absolute certainty the non-existance of something, you might call me an agnostic atheist. This brings me back to my earlier point, which is how "atheist" and "agnostic" deal with two different things. As we know, theism involves belief, while agnosticism deals with knowledge (greek: gnÅsis = "knowledge"). An agnostic (notice the use of the "without" prefix of "a-") would say that there is no current knowledge to be able to make a claim about, in this case, God. So there are agnostic and gnostic theists (some claim they KNOW there's a God), and the same goes for atheists. I would strongly disagree with your interpretation that the song encourages us to examine what is real and tangible to help determine truth. In fact, it is doing the opposite. As a skeptic myself, I push myself hard to examine things critically, and use actual evidence to determine what I understand as true. This song, as well as organized religion in general, looks down on people who are naturalists and get their truth from science and observation. Theists, on the other hand, have nothing tangible except a book writen by men, and delusional thoughts that help re-enforce their delicate notion of a father figure watching over them. |
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| My Bloody Valentine – Paint a Rainbow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Bilinda: "The song titles were really twee, like Sunny Sundae Smile and Paint a Rainbow. It sounds very innocent but the lyrics were very dirty. Paint a Rainbow is about necrophilia and there’s some really disturbing images in that song. So obviously, that was the first song I learned how to play on the guitar." | |
| My Bloody Valentine – No More Sorry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Interview with Bilinda: "Ever since Isn’t Anything I had panic attacks. Toby’s dad treated me really bad, which I’ve told about in No More Sorry. All of a sudden he wanted joint custody and I was frightened. The hypnotic therapy made things from my childhood resurface which explained why I had been living with such a man. I was a nervous wreck and I realised that a lot that happened when I was a kid shouldn’t have happened. A lot of it came out in my lyrics. A lot of discomfort." | |
| Between the Buried and Me – Arsonist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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God DOES hate fags, according to the Buy Bull. Organized religion should be destroyed. |
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| Circa Survive – On Letting Go Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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umm, ya. if you wouldn't mind fixing this, that'd be awesome. lyrics: For your futures sake, I’ve got advice I’d advise you to take Don’t keep betting, “well, its gotta light me up sometime” You lost your turn “All I wanted to be was one of your children” See how clean the water is where you are, wash off your handcuffs And know the hidden messages you hear, they aren’t real. You tricked your mind to feel. “All I wanted to be was one of your children” Are we even now? We are unrelated If blood is thicker than water Then you’ll drown quicker than we intended, And you’ll know where you can find us in the end So we can begin again. |
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