/atheism/ - Atheism

>>13305

I'm about 90% sure that's actually a dog whistle.

Save this video and share it with your friends from the People's Republic of China. They will either crack up if you tell them its a joke, or they will smirk uncontrollably and then tell each other when your back is turned that you're an incredibly gullible idiot. I think I was linked to this by asians before on a forum and we all had a good laugh.

I've studied kanji over the years. The origins are as independent as cuneiform . We look at stars and draw constellations; we see shapes in the clouds; we divine the future from how tea leaves fall in a glass. Our brains are wired to see patterns where they do not really exist.

Things evolve from simplicity. Why do you think the traditional characters are so complicated? The chinese took smaller components and threw them together willy nilly to represent ideas. Half of the time it isn't very logical. Half of the time the radical on the left is ENTIRELY PHONETIC.

Lmao I'll tear the first two examples apart. This will be a bit long:

造 (Tsukuru) = walk + life + mouth = create.

Wow so retarded. This guy is such a noob student of Chinese/Japanese that he can't even correctly recognize radicals much less etymology. He does no research either, just spouts his uninformed opinions.

Let's look at the right character 告 = REVEAL/TELL/ANNOUNCE. The top part is COW 牛, (which is trimmed here.) (It's NOT LIFE YOU IDIOT. Life (生) has THREE horizontal lines, not TWO. )The bottom is mouth (口.) So whenever the cow speaks it reveals something? Great mnemonic but not proof of the Christian god, more like proof Baal created the world.

You then add walk 辵 (it's simplified to ⻌ ) to the left, and get CREATE.

So if he said it correctly it would be "To reveal + to walk = to create." You have to walk the path eh? Except he breaks it down into 3 elements not 2, so if he had identified 牛 correctly as cow and not life it would read:

Walk + Cow + Mouth = create.

So when the cow walks around and eats grass it creates bullshit. How Christian!

Unlike him I'll back up what I say with citations to dictionaries too.

http://www.kanjinetw...?kanji_id=KOK01

鬼 (Demon) = Secret + Legs + garden

He says 厶 is secret and wildly extrapolates from pieces like that. In isolation it "can", but it actually derives from multiple characters with different meanings that simplified so you could write it faster. Here he is wrong and if the character is actually supposed to look like a demon, it probably means tail instead.

https://en.wiktionar...nary.org/wiki/厶

Note he doesn't explain the dash on the top line of RICE FIELD 田 (which he calls GARDEN 庭because he's 100% a noob.) He totally ignores it, probably unaware it would destroy his argument. Here is the real etymology:

http://www.yellowbri...mology.php?zi=鬼

http://sinographs.ka...m?sin_id_pk=487

If you can't access it, the real origin of the character is believed to be a lumpy looking creature. 旡 = engorgement (obsolete element). Add skull with openings at the top and you get 鬼.

This guy in the video is such a noob at Chinese characters and etymology that he took a character that has inherent meaning, 1) ignored what it derived from, and 2) erroneously tried to break it down into smaller components that looked familiar to him 3) seriously interpreted Genesis origins of Chinese writing from that.

You know this can be done the other way too?

魔 = (another more complicated way of writing demon that probably developed to transliterate Mara hundreds of years later when Buddhism reached China. It's 麻 Hemp + Demon.) Mara is an unrelated Hindu god; not Eve. But if he had used this character instead he might have made a better argument.

http://www.kanjinetw...?kanji_id=MAG10

Note Chinese usage of a character doesn't always equal Japanese usage. I'm sure he eventually makes that mistake if I watch the whole video but I'm not going to lose more brain cells.

Perish the thought that we all descended from figures in the bible!

But hey, at least this video might help someone remember some Japanese characters. Once it helps them to get to Japan they can start reading about Japanese gods and talking to people, so it might be a stepping stone in losing their faith.

>>13317

Wait my bad, he called the cow radical ⺧ "clay with a dot",(but he did get the walk radical on left right). He reasons the dot means life and it turns 土 soil into "life", except the dot is supposed to make look like part of a cow's body in the original pictograph. "Life" has 3 strokes so he is still really wrong. 生.

>>13315

It's like I'm really reading those spam comments on Youtube videos about science.

>>13386

Does anyone in Japan actually practice Shinto any more?

>>13387

They still hold onto a lot of traditional rituals we might kindly call superstitions, and there are families who care for the shrines who you might call fundies. Not unlike a Christian who goes to church on the holidays to avoid damnation, they go for festivals and at certain critical moments of their life.

>>13388

Sounds like the Japanese have pared down Religion to what it's good for.. holidays and having someone say feel good stuff at important events.

>>13389

Buddhism is still a thing though, and wording is everything. If you ask them if they're a Buddhist most will say no, because they few consider themselves religious since most don't join organized religions in the west, but if you ask them "Do you follow Buddha," many will say yes.

Buddhism fills in the gaps in Shinto, and the two had become basically an inseparable hybrid over time. Only recently did the government try to split the two religions, to try and restore Japanese nationalism by restoring the shinto religion, and destroying non-compliant Buddhist temples in the name of modernization. Shinto was considered pure because it was Japanese. (In this view Buddhism had corrupted it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu_bunri

Anime fans that use anime to try and get you to read the bible more.

http://blog.draggle.org/how-to-understand-anime-or-anything-else-bible-study/

>>13487

The favorite anime of the blog guy is yuri, that's funny.

I was once in a church who's sign said "when Jesus comes a tootin', we'll get to scootin'!"

There was so much wrong with that text.

>>13489

He likes yuri, but hates lolis in his anime. Simoun is a decent anime with many Shinto motifs, and he often looks for Christian themes in anime. What I don't understand how is he can remain a Christian and work for Nasa, even if he was born in Texas. Maybe that's why Nasa is such a shell of its former self these days: too many bubblehead Christians work locally in Houston. We should just close the Houston site so there will be fewer Fundamentalists slowing down our space fleets.

>>13287

A friend's father had a story about how he was about to go to bed with a woman and she just got down on her knees to pray at the bedside. He turned around and never looked back.

>>13508

I would have done her once just to see what craziness happened. "Oh my God, come possess my husband and take me! I've been a naughty sinner, punish me harder! Fill me with your holy water. I can feel the holy spirit entering me. I've been baptized, I'm being born again! Oh! Oh Hallelujah! Now I'm in heaven lord! Thank you god, may god bless my womb and gife me children, amen."

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>>13514

I disagreed with his father. Crazy is my thing, anon. It's a very peculiar and very awkward feeling sticking your dick into someone who's been leading group prayers for you to turn away from sin not like it's going to stop me

Ironically, my one did actually prophesy in tongues at her church. Didn't feel like tempting pure little Christ-chan into sin though; more like the one chief fucking the other tribe's shaman priestess. It felt intuitively appropriate, strangely.

IRL, those really pure Christian girls are… weird. About sex and men. But please, by all means carry on with your filthy, depraved fantasies about pure Christian girls. Christ-chan is busy being defiled in the drawfag thread at the moment, God bless her. I get off on her being scornful, though. Christ-chan has no time for me ;_;

>>13524

That's fucking disgusting.

>>13525

>cult of womyn

>religion

>>13572

Transcendental Argument for the existence of God

>>13590

post it. I'm unfamiliar with it and could use a giggle.>>13590

>>13587

I was looking for more of this, I found this discussion of this image.

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=64512

This has got to troll roleplaying. They don't actually take this seriously. do they?

>>13599

Judging by the other sections of the forum, it must be role play.

"Are Militant Atheists Using Chemtrails to Poison the Angels in Heaven?"

"3 experiments you can do at home to prove the Earth is flat."

Lol at the "pastors" there,

http://www.landoverbaptist.net

Now I wonder how many /christian/s are trolling Atheists.

>>13600

Poe's law strikes again.

>>13592

The comment was a little snide, but in any case Matt Slick has a good amount of kek:

https://carm.org/transcendental-argument

If that article is tl;dr, assert that logic requires a naturalistic origin, then assert none exists, then assert God. But popularly, "how you can you know there is no God without God, because knowing presupposes a God, because only a God could endow us with the ability to know." Frustrating.

This song. Theists don't want to be in control of their destiny, they want be underlings in Fight Club.

>>13618

The Bible is never rewritten…except all those different versions of it, the translations complete with all the guesses and errors that come with it, the added and subtracted stories over the years, and so on.

>>13842

It represents the Wreckage Brother and the fire rising from it after being crash by a big guy.

Not a specific fail but something that bothers about religion vs atheism discussion is that atheist are usually considered the "edgy" ones. I mean shit, Christians believe that everyone who isn't a Christian will burn forever, what could possibly be more edgy than that? And that the God who does that is not only justified, but is perfectly just and the perfect roll model and the perfect being.

And yes I know that not everyone believe in a literal hell and some believe that non Christians can get in to heaven in special or maybe even general cases but the vast majority of Christian theologians and philosophers disagree with them.