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Are you autism spectrum disorder and atheist?
yes 67%  67%  [ 47 ]
no 33%  33%  [ 23 ]
Total votes : 70

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13 Apr 2011, 12:05 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I guess its really just an issue of practical vs. impractical. If these people want to call themselves these things - more power to them, that's really their thing. I just don't see where it would be worth them expecting people to have a cognitive click on those labels immediately unless their numbers are upwards of several million and to the point where their ideas actually are shaping society in some way to where people have reason to need to know who they are.

Except that if you don't encounter the term, you don't have any need to know it anyway.....

I mean, I usually don't understand these objections, as all I am saying is that language is (as a fact) complicated, not that everybody has to know all complexities at any given moment, or that they should like complexity. Christian atheism won't impact most people's lives, BUT they just can't make the strong normative claims about language they want to make, or believe that the universality of their favored definition is as clear as they'd want to think.



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20 May 2011, 8:39 am

I always say: When there is no physical and chemical proves that something is existence, I dont belive. So, yeah im atheist and theoretic person.



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20 May 2011, 9:30 pm

I am a Heathen, and aspie.
For me, this means that science cannot explain everything, and the Gods and magic can fill up what is left.
It also means that I am part of a group frequently marginalised by atheists and Christians alike, who seem mainly ensconced in each other like an old married couple. I have asked, and apparently it is because most people believe the pre-Christian religions to be dead, or stamped into irrelevance.

I reconcile science and magic by ignoring the contradictions and pretending that they are parallel lines in the same universe, and therefore both allowed to exist. Also, it is easy to stop caring about the creation or end of the universe when my religion does not concern itself greatly with either.

As for the inverse connection between religious adherence and intelligence, you may consider me an anomaly in that respect. I am acknowledged by teachers and psychologists alike to be far above average brain.


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21 May 2011, 3:35 am

Zagreus wrote:
I am a Heathen, and aspie.
For me, this means that science cannot explain everything, and the Gods and magic can fill up what is left.
It also means that I am part of a group frequently marginalised by atheists and Christians alike, who seem mainly ensconced in each other like an old married couple. I have asked, and apparently it is because most people believe the pre-Christian religions to be dead, or stamped into irrelevance.

I reconcile science and magic by ignoring the contradictions and pretending that they are parallel lines in the same universe, and therefore both allowed to exist. Also, it is easy to stop caring about the creation or end of the universe when my religion does not concern itself greatly with either.

As for the inverse connection between religious adherence and intelligence, you may consider me an anomaly in that respect. I am acknowledged by teachers and psychologists alike to be far above average brain.


Do you believe in Miracles? Do you believe in Mysteries? I don't. But I do believe in Unsolved Problems.

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21 May 2011, 11:01 am

ruveyn wrote:
Zagreus wrote:
I am a Heathen, and aspie.
For me, this means that science cannot explain everything, and the Gods and magic can fill up what is left.
It also means that I am part of a group frequently marginalised by atheists and Christians alike, who seem mainly ensconced in each other like an old married couple. I have asked, and apparently it is because most people believe the pre-Christian religions to be dead, or stamped into irrelevance.

I reconcile science and magic by ignoring the contradictions and pretending that they are parallel lines in the same universe, and therefore both allowed to exist. Also, it is easy to stop caring about the creation or end of the universe when my religion does not concern itself greatly with either.

As for the inverse connection between religious adherence and intelligence, you may consider me an anomaly in that respect. I am acknowledged by teachers and psychologists alike to be far above average brain.


Do you believe in Miracles? Do you believe in Mysteries? I don't. But I do believe in Unsolved Problems.

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Unsolved Problems ought to be solved by humans, if they can.


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