• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you put any stock in the fortunes, IMO that’s in the same ranks as crystals and witchcraft. Maybe not necessarily a belief in God, but it’s epistemologically the same.

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      4 months ago

      Atheist just means lack of belief in god though, doesn’t mean you don’t believe other things without evidence.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        He was talking about theism, but regardless this is a “tu quoque” argument. Believing things without evidence or reason is bad whether they’re a theist or an atheist.

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      4 months ago

      My god, the no fun police. Fortune cookies are just a fun little thing people have entertaining thought experiments on what the statement in the cookie could be related to in their lives. There is a very near 0 number of people who take these seriously.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Plenty of people say the same thing about horoscopes and crystals, and at the same time plenty of my family members believe in those things wholeheartedly.

        They’re two different groups, and if you pay attention to the first words I wrote it’s obvious I’m not talking about the former.