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qazplm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 04:29 AM
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263. baloney
and the attitude comes from your continual insistence on a flawed argument.

It is no different from saying "Do you believe in aliens?"

yes, I do.
No, I dont.
I dont know, could be, could not I have no clue.

If you concede that aliens could exist or could not exist with equal likelihood then saying you dont know if you believe they exist because you have no knowledge on which to base that belief is clearly valid and no different than substituting the word God for aliens.

actively believing is a state but SO is actively disbelieving.
You make the logically flawed argument that if you dont actively do one you must do the other.

plain fact of the matter is you are wrong. I am not missing any distinction between believing or knowing, I am seeing the distinction you are missing that it is not about simultaneously believing and not believing, it is about saying you dont know what you believe because you have zero evidence to believe one way or the other.

Unlike you, i have decided not to arbitrarily believe one way or the other until if/when I come across enough information to give me a reason to believe. I simply say its a question that at this point I find pointless to even try to answer or worry about.
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