@LtModigliani I am not sure what you are using to judge intelligence. I corrected a misspelling and some grammer. I doubt that is what it is based on your incorrect use of grammer. So, I'm curious as to what you are using for an intelligence test.
@LtModigliani Your questions are quite vague. What do you mean by "understanding of yourself"? Where do I stand on what issue(s)? If you are asking about my 5 questions? If so: 1. non-theist 2. not a mind/brain dualist, not sure if we have ultimate free will, I may do a video on 3 some day. 4. yes and no, may do a video on this if subscriber base gets large. 5. Why is there something vs nothing, unfortunately no current theology gets around this either (ie. why is there God vs no God?)
@LtModigliani I'm guessing you didn't catch the ":)" to highlight that I was using sarcasm. These questions aren't about doubt. These are areas that non-theists often have different views. And, I want to know what and why they believe what they believe. I like to know why people believe what they believe. I have 5 questions to Muslims and Christians as well. Don't you want to hear from people with different beliefs about why they believe what they believe?
I am an atheist, male, libertarian leaning American. I believe mind is a function of the brain and they are not separate things. I believe in free will within the physical and societal limits imposed on humans generally. Morality is only "good" in the context of a society. The only law higher is the survival of the species. I never converted since I can't recall ever "believing" , even as a small child. Aside from the hate from the theists in general, not insulting my theist friends is it.
2. Um. I think I have free will to the extent that I perceive I can make decisions.
3. I'm not quite sure how to answer this. I don't believe in objective morality. I think I could call it a sort of "situational morality" where I take into account my own and other's safety and comfort.
4. It became more evident as I matured and relied more on myself.
5. I suppose just the comfort of superstitions like "knock on wood" even though I know it's irrational.
1. Atheist. Because it's less confrontational than my anti-theism. =)
2. I'm a compatibilist, so I don't just believe in free will. I know it exists. Of course, the compatibilist definition seems inadequate to many, but I like it.
3. My own morals don't go above my moral compass, but I'm pretty sure morals are rooted in human genetics for the most part.
4. Not really a "born again" moment, but I realized that it's important to discuss beliefs in public at one point.
There are various reasons why I never consider myself an agnostic, however 'freethinker' is a term I use aswell.
2)I believer our actions are our own, but can be prevented/caused by other sources, such as society,repercussion,fear and friendship
(nothing spiritualistic)
3)I don't believe in objective morality and feel the 'compass' is subjective to life and environment, but I do find myself at times being more moral than I would expect...
..for example, recently my little sister collected a lady-bug from the garden and wanted to keep it, However I felt it was wrong as it would lead to it being hurt,dead or removed from its desired habitat (alot of morality directed to a bug isnt it?)
So I coaxed her into accepting that putting it back was the right thing to do and made up a story about how the bug was happy etc etc. ha ha.
4) For my actual atheism - I always have been,regardless of my religious surroundings...
..at no point did I ever consider the existence of a god was real, however, my turning point away from religion as a whole, was when I was a child and I would watch the Old Testament movies, also the greek mythology movies too.
I eventually realized that the made up fantasy stories of the greeks and the 'true' biblical stories were exactly the same, and its 'truth' was only judged by the number of people who follow it,as people once believed the greek stories too.
..absolute morons who have absolutely no coherent ability what so ever (mainly muslims), so trying to even explain the facts of reality to them is near-impossible in itself, so you could only imagine how trying to explain my stance towards god is.
Conclusion: Theres just too many stupid people asking me really stupid questions, it gets overwhelming.
These are great questions.
americanmuslimgirl 7 months ago
1. Atheist. There is no other proper way to describe it. I could say that I am an Agnostic Atheist, but that would be pointless to say.
2. There is no evidence to support the idea, so I disregard it.
3. Last I checked, my morality and moral compass are one in the same.
4. Started to ask my parents about Biology. Studied more into it, then naturally studied the rest of the physical and biological sciences.
5. I'm perfectly content with my atheism. Life is what I make of it.
AatamiKankurin 10 months ago
1) pragmatic agnostic
2) do not believe in the dualism. and i believe we have no choice but to have free will. irony. everything you do is a choice
3) morals come from conditioning and empathy (and evolution)
4) i grew up in catholic family but the church never really taught me to believe it. they gave me stories and such but i never quite 'got it' i guess
5) the biggest challenge is living in a society where people still believe in god and it is endorsed by the government.
OwnageX2 10 months ago
@LtModigliani I am not sure what you are using to judge intelligence. I corrected a misspelling and some grammer. I doubt that is what it is based on your incorrect use of grammer. So, I'm curious as to what you are using for an intelligence test.
jcurious 1 year ago
@LtModigliani Your questions are quite vague. What do you mean by "understanding of yourself"? Where do I stand on what issue(s)? If you are asking about my 5 questions? If so: 1. non-theist 2. not a mind/brain dualist, not sure if we have ultimate free will, I may do a video on 3 some day. 4. yes and no, may do a video on this if subscriber base gets large. 5. Why is there something vs nothing, unfortunately no current theology gets around this either (ie. why is there God vs no God?)
jcurious 1 year ago
@LtModigliani I'm guessing you didn't catch the ":)" to highlight that I was using sarcasm. These questions aren't about doubt. These are areas that non-theists often have different views. And, I want to know what and why they believe what they believe. I like to know why people believe what they believe. I have 5 questions to Muslims and Christians as well. Don't you want to hear from people with different beliefs about why they believe what they believe?
jcurious 1 year ago
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seeminglyjaded 1 year ago
@seeminglyjaded Why did you remove your comments?
jcurious 1 year ago
I am an atheist, male, libertarian leaning American. I believe mind is a function of the brain and they are not separate things. I believe in free will within the physical and societal limits imposed on humans generally. Morality is only "good" in the context of a society. The only law higher is the survival of the species. I never converted since I can't recall ever "believing" , even as a small child. Aside from the hate from the theists in general, not insulting my theist friends is it.
JonKevinCherry 1 year ago
1. Atheist. I'm just used to using it.
2. Um. I think I have free will to the extent that I perceive I can make decisions.
3. I'm not quite sure how to answer this. I don't believe in objective morality. I think I could call it a sort of "situational morality" where I take into account my own and other's safety and comfort.
4. It became more evident as I matured and relied more on myself.
5. I suppose just the comfort of superstitions like "knock on wood" even though I know it's irrational.
quasiverse 1 year ago
@thenotsosilentmind I think you may be the first person to give a non blank answer to #5 thanks!
jcurious 1 year ago
1: irreligious, because I don`t think any of the religions are true. whether or not there is a god of some kind, I don`t know.
2: i believe in free will to some extent, because there will allways be alternative option we cant see, so our actions are limited, but not by fate.
3: whatever serves the greater good.
4: the old testament.
5: nothing.
0900072 1 year ago
1 atheist is fine, when the question includes "why" i sometimes include "by way of rational skepticism"
2 free will, if it exist, is most likely not all its cracked up to be.
3there's genetic sources(innate) social sources, and intellectual sources
4 none really
5 none really
evirus 1 year ago
1. Atheist. Because it's less confrontational than my anti-theism. =)
2. I'm a compatibilist, so I don't just believe in free will. I know it exists. Of course, the compatibilist definition seems inadequate to many, but I like it.
3. My own morals don't go above my moral compass, but I'm pretty sure morals are rooted in human genetics for the most part.
4. Not really a "born again" moment, but I realized that it's important to discuss beliefs in public at one point.
5. There is no challenge.
Gnomefro 1 year ago
1) I tend to use atheism more than anything else.
There are various reasons why I never consider myself an agnostic, however 'freethinker' is a term I use aswell.
2)I believer our actions are our own, but can be prevented/caused by other sources, such as society,repercussion,fear and friendship
(nothing spiritualistic)
3)I don't believe in objective morality and feel the 'compass' is subjective to life and environment, but I do find myself at times being more moral than I would expect...
godlessmessiah 1 year ago
..for example, recently my little sister collected a lady-bug from the garden and wanted to keep it, However I felt it was wrong as it would lead to it being hurt,dead or removed from its desired habitat (alot of morality directed to a bug isnt it?)
So I coaxed her into accepting that putting it back was the right thing to do and made up a story about how the bug was happy etc etc. ha ha.
4) For my actual atheism - I always have been,regardless of my religious surroundings...
godlessmessiah 1 year ago
..at no point did I ever consider the existence of a god was real, however, my turning point away from religion as a whole, was when I was a child and I would watch the Old Testament movies, also the greek mythology movies too.
I eventually realized that the made up fantasy stories of the greeks and the 'true' biblical stories were exactly the same, and its 'truth' was only judged by the number of people who follow it,as people once believed the greek stories too.
5) I often come across...
godlessmessiah 1 year ago
..absolute morons who have absolutely no coherent ability what so ever (mainly muslims), so trying to even explain the facts of reality to them is near-impossible in itself, so you could only imagine how trying to explain my stance towards god is.
Conclusion: Theres just too many stupid people asking me really stupid questions, it gets overwhelming.
godlessmessiah 1 year ago
"Conclusion: Theres just too many stupid people asking me really stupid questions, it gets overwhelming."
I hope you didn't find my questions stupid :)
jcurious 1 year ago
ha ha, no ,dont worry.
godlessmessiah 1 year ago
Ok, the auto closed captioning is a bit off... I'll try to fix it later.
jcurious 1 year ago