The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Where are my atheist buddies?
While I've made some awesome connections on this site, and greatly appreciate the people whose blogs I follow and with whom I talk to on Twitter, I've noticed a commonality: they all reference "God" at times, and talk about their faith on occasion.
Personally, I'm cool with that. I'm not an antitheist trying to get rid of religion, I'm more of a "live and let live" atheist - if you believe, that's cool for you, but no thanks.
I would love to find some atheist bloggers to follow, and to talk to on here (or Twitter, Facebook, or one of a host of other places). Maybe people with similar views to my own, or who can appreciate life without assigning a divinity to the wonderful bits (and not assigning that same divinity to the awful things).
So leave me a message, or find me on Twitter (@justinbarlow), because I'd love to hear from any of you that are out there - and anyone else, really. I think the connections I've made already should make it clear that I'm going to like you any less because of your belief on why we're here. :)
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Permalink Reply by Hayden Fennell on -
Yo, Justin. I can be a 20sb atheist buddy.
Sometimes I blog about my non-religion over on Ultimate Gourmet. I haven't in a while, but I have a new post about the impossibility of proving negative claims (often associated with the "you can't prove that god doesn't exist" argument) coming up soon, if you're interested.
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Permalink Reply by Freeman Dyson on -
It is possible to prove negative claims. For example, "You are not in California." or "You are not riding a horse right now." etc. Those are negative claims that could be shown to be true or false.
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Permalink Reply by Hayden Fennell on
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Well, yes. It is always possible to prove absolutely frivolous negative claims. Only the most annoyingly pedantic of philosophers would contest statements such as "I am not riding a horse right now."
I should have been more clear: the issue with which I am primarily concerned is the issue of negative existence claims. We can not scientifically prove that something does not exist because proof relies on evidence which subsequently relies on observation, and we can not rule out the possibility that there is evidence beyond our current capabilities of measurement.
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Permalink Reply by Susan on -
Hi. I'm Susan, and I'm a godless heathen. I've also noticed A LOT of faith and religion in blogs on 20SB, which, like you, I am fine with. I'm probably not going to be super interested in blogs ABOUT church or related issues, but some of my favorite bloggers mention God from time to time.
I don't address atheism or religion very often in my website, but I have been active in pro-science groups. When I lived in Austin, I worked with several organizations to protect knowledge and science in Texas school curriculums when the state school board starting getting sketchy.
I've been meaning to write a post for a while on what it was like to grow up going to church with George W (when he was Governor) and the struggles of "coming out" to friends and family about my stance on religion.
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Permalink Reply by Katie on -
I'm an atheist. I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb a lot because religion doesn't really figure into anything I do--especially since I'm blogging about marriage and family. It can make you sort of an oddity in the blogging community, even when you don't talk about it or criticize others' beliefs, since for many people, it does figure into their lives so prominently. I think a lot of people find it sort of alienating when they realize you don't believe in a god. But. I keep plugging away. I'm always looking for other atheist bloggers, just to have people who aren't sort of wigged out by my lack of religion. :)
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Permalink Reply by Justin Barlow on -
Glad to see that it's not just me on here! I'm checking out all of your blogs now! :D
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