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u/otakuman · 2 pointsr/aaaaaatheismmmmmmmmmm

> First of all, I was giving you the course as an half-joke, if you go and really learn Ugaritic, you're absolutely badass!

Well, I don't know if I'll have the time, but you're giving me the motivation for it! (Should I study basic hebrew first?)

Anyway, I'll probably just study the very basics, I just want to know what the ugaritic religious texts say, with numbering, of course. The judeochristian Bible has billions of copies worldwide; why can't we have an ugaritic "bible"? :(

Anyway I think I found another copy of the Ugaritic religious texts: "Canaanite Myths and Legends", by JCL Gibson, it's $32 from Amazon.

> That said, I suppose all human languages are somehow "ambiguous". Prepositions are a classical example of this, as you've seen in Ugaritic, but also in English "to", "on" etc. convey a lot of meanings depending on the verbs involved.

Yes, but some languages are less ambiguous than others. For example, spanish has the words "ser" and "estar", which both are translated to the verb "to be", but have two distinct meanings: "Ser" means something that the subject has always been, like "this is a chair". "Estar" refers to a temporary state, like "this chair is broken", or "I'm busy right now" (so the joke "I'm happy; Hello happy!" does not apply). On the other side of the coin, English has very specific possessives : "His / her" to differenciate the ownership, while spanish only has "su" in the case of third person. But spanish adds the singular plural of the object: "sus posesiones" = "his/her possessions".

But I digress.

EDIT: Wow, I never thought there was a name for the idea I presented! I looked at wikipedia's Linguistic_relativity page, and it's awesome. Also, Lojban is a pretty badass language. I'm sure that's a language that Vulcans would use :)

EDIT 2: Grammar

u/nakiki · 2 pointsr/aaaaaatheismmmmmmmmmm

Buddhism to me is more like a practice than a religion itself.

My Islamic civilization lecturer once brought this up in the class "The true Buddhism doesn't believe in god".

Anyway, I'm not a good debater but you can read this book to find out more.

u/ChaoticAgenda · 37 pointsr/aaaaaatheismmmmmmmmmm

I was a little over-zealous so the first thing out of my mouth after introductions was, "Why do you guys worship somebody who murdered so many people?"
They were a little confused since they couldn't think of any times he did that so I reminded them of the flood where he almost destroyed the entire human race and Sodom and Gomorrah.
They tried to justify it by saying that God can judge us for our sins. I pointed out that sin could only exist if God decided to stay silent while watching Eve get tempted. You can't honestly expect a person with no knowledge of good and evil to understand that what they are doing is wrong, yet we are punished for it to this day.

At this point they wanted to just cut their losses and leave me with one of their books so I offered to give them my copy of A History of God too and they could learn about how the polytheistic Canaanite religion led to polytheistic Judaism and from there to monotheistic Judaism. The trade was declined, but one of the guys said he would look into it.

I felt pretty good about the whole exchange. I didn't change any minds, but I defended my position solidly where they could hardly think of what to say.

u/[deleted] · 25 pointsr/aaaaaatheismmmmmmmmmm

Two things:

  1. This has nothing to do with Einstein, he never said it. It's been attributed to other witty/smart people, as well. But people use the "if Einstein said it then it must be true" fallacy to spread this... It likely originates from this book published in 1984, some 29 years after Einstein's death.

  2. For the record: Insanity is not a psychological disorder. It is a legal term used in the pursuit of understanding whether or not a defendant is capable of understanding right from wrong according to the society they live in. IE: an "insane" person is a person who cannot understand right from wrong according to a judge.

    "Insanity" has nothing to do with repetition at all. Perhaps the word intended is perseverate?

    EDIT: I'm pedantic on stuff like this because these comics and these posts spread, on Facebook, etc. We should strive for accuracy lest simple mistakes distract from what is a good message.