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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
Acceptable
- Honest questions or conversations.
- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
- Atheist memes. We can have fun!
- News headlines relevant to atheism.
Unacceptable
Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.
- Anything against site rules.
- Illegal and/or NSFW material.
- Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
- Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
- Personal attacks or flaming.
Inadvisable
- Self promotion or upvote farming.
- Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.
Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.
Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Last Thursdayism, all of reality came into existence as is ten seconds ago, maybe.
Counterpoint, Next Thursdayism, reality doesn't exist yet and your memory of reading this was manufactured at the moment of creation to try to convince you it had already happened.
This sentence makes just as much sense as young earth creationism
It's not...impossible...we can't really describe what "consciousness" is. How do we know the universe doesn't explode and restore-from-savestate every 10 seconds, and we just keep on meeking through blisfully unaware?
You ever read "Timeline", by Michael Crichton? Not exactly his best book...and definitely not his best movie (unless you're the type to swoon for Paul Walker, in which case...alright). But in it they talk about time travel and compare it to a fax machine, except the original is 'destroyed'. What "goes back in time" is actually a carbon copy, a clone. I think it was Timeline, at least.
It's probably been brought up countless other times in Sci-Fi as well. Probably dozens just in Star Trek alone. But I'm not much of a sci-fi buff. But I think about that every time teleportation, or time-travel, or even cloning, like in "The 6th Day", shows up in stories.
But ultimately, the particles get destroyed, meaning the entire body gets destroyed, so with it, the consciousness. So really, you must die every time you teleport, or time-travel, or whatever, right? But you're completely unaware of it. You're just a new copy, destroyed and re-assembled. A person of Theseus. Lights out on one side, lights on on the other.
But...like, lights out is lights out, right?
Maybe I'm just stoned. What are we talking about again?
I had no idea who Paul Walker was, so I looked him up. What do you know, I am the kind to swoon for him!