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As atheists don't believe in God (presumably because of lack of evidence), aren’t they likely to also disbelieve other things lacking evidence? “Atheists: do you believe in the soul?" is often answered by snarkily restating atheism’s definition. Why? My answer on Quora: It’s not snarky. Atheists can believe in anything and still be atheists, as long as they don’t believe in gods. P.S. I don’t believe in “souls.” I can’t speak for anyone else. I believe in brains. Expanding here, a GSC exclusive: Atheism is the absence of a belief in God. They can believe in souls. They can believe in ghosts. They can believe in astrology. Apparently there are Buddhis atheists. Don't ask me about them. They can believe in UFO's and reincarnation. They can be totalitarian. They can be capitalist, democratic. They can be ugly. They can be smoking hot. The only thing atheists have in common is, if you were to ask one whether he or she believes in God, the answer would be no. Now, there are things many atheists have in common. But those things are typically disconnected from atheism. Like souls. A soul, in most usage, is an imaginary unit of existence that is not part of a person's body but is independent of it. We wonder, for example, if the soul survives death. There is, however, no reason dependent on atheism to believe the soul is something that actually exists independent of the brain. Plenty of reasons that are NOT dependent on atheism to believe in the soul. Just because I do not believe in souls does not mean all atheists agree with me, or any!

Can someone please offer advice on how ANYONE is supposed to have a reasonable discussion with someone who abandons FACTS as a mutually agreed upon premise?

Now beyond certain. Christopher Lee

not sure about the grammy, but so sure about peter cushing that if I'm wrong it must be Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing?

much obliged

Ya think?

Rob S. is an a$$#ole.

Agreed on Tanya (sigh) Roberts (thank you Cinemax!)

Charlie's Angels

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i would guess you're on the wrong side of the pond. the sorta gave it away for me.

Kind of my point. Like the resurrection, or Elisha and the giant magic invisible army, or Daniel and... everything about Daniel. Recognizing a story as fictional resolves all contradictions without magically coming up with five crosses on the hill or Peter's six denials or Judas witnessing the ascension but then skipping out so the angels can call them Men of Galilee without being liars. No one is obliged to investigate the topic of this thread, but if you are going to investigate it, you have two choices. One is to follow the evidence where it leads, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you. The other is to decide your conclusion before you begin and cherry pick the evidence you're going to believe because it conforms to the conclusion you decided to reach before you really investigated anything. You can pray for guidance either way. God's not going to give you a scorpion if you ask for an egg, after all. Is he?

In the Spider-Man movies with Tobey Maguire, Spidey's webs were organic. They came out of his wrists. In the Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland movies, they're machines that Peter Parker made. What about the real Spider-Man? Were his web slingers organic or man-made? There are a couple of approaches to take. We can interview the producers. Go back to the source material. Or we can recognize this is a fictional character and neither answer is "true" in any meaningful sense of the word.

Wait until he finds out Paul didn't write Ephesians and that Daniel never existed.

John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt stayed withthe showfrom start to finish. Suzanne Sommers (sp?) was the first roommate, followed by Jenilee Harrison and Priscilla Barnes.

it is. Don Knotts had one episode with the Ropers

Dutch Schultz and Raymond Babbit were next. You're

i missed 33 yesterday

Meyer Lansky Ted Kramer Edward Magorium

Of course.