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What actual purpose does atheism have in our lives?
The word atheist is just a term for a rejection of a specific proposition. There's no reason why that would logically need a purpose. We find purpose elsewhere.
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What actual purpose does atheism have in our lives?
The word atheist is just a term for a rejection of a specific proposition. There's no reason why that would logically need a purpose. We find purpose elsewhere.
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For me it's the ability to use my hardware as long as I want after a tech company's EOL. When I was on Windows 7 and it reached EOL my machine was unusable. Couldn't go back because I waited to long. Then I updated my machine and Windows 10's EOL was set and again, machine will be not be safe to use. I switched to Linux before that release date but the way Microsoft does with these EOL dates, for me isn't sustainable. I dont need to buy a new machine every few years. I want my machines to be a usable and secure for as long as I want it to with minimal impact to my finances and stop simply just throwing old machines away. And if I run into a distro that my machine isn't beefy enough for, I have distro-hopped around enough to be able to go to something else but still be in the Linux-verse.
The stuff like, better for privacy, open source etc., those benefits came after.
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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
Locate command. I know it's a command in thw terminal but since I had to apt install it I'm adding it here.
I absolutely love it.
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best linux terminal emulator
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Online trends I saw on the internet was the reason I hopped around multiple terminals. Use case for me it made no difference.
There's 4 other terminals I did enjoy using but xterm became my go to after I got tired of hopping around.
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My problem with atheism
The biggest issue I have with your points are you can apply that same logic to all kinds of absurdity. Pick one or create one and it applies.
I also disagree with you that it is a healthier mindset to believe in essentially an unlimited amount of possibilities (unlimited because you can't define an unknown in this case) but whether something is healthier or not is not a factual statement. It is just a subjective statement that is based too much on the individual and the mental status of that individual to determine if it is healthy or not. I could argue that it was unhealthy to believe in what I used to believe(specifically evangelical/Protestant Christianity) because of my underlining condition of dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression, but that claim of being unhealthy doesn't hold much weight because again, it depends on the mental state of an individual.
For myself, yes I am an atheist and yes if I come across evidence that convinces me differently then my views will change, but that doesn't make my current stance any different or say weaker as some weak atheism(I find that term laughable), especially when I don't have the knowledge of what that evidence would be to convince me.
Also remember, theories are believed to be true until proven wrong when it comes to science. The word theory is used differently in science then in colloquial type of discussions. So for example, just because we believe the theory of evolution is fact, that doesn't mean we think a creation story myth is possible because we use the phrase, theory of evolution. I bring that up only because, the fact science has changed in the past doesn't mean we can't believe our current understanding as fact.
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Do you let it slide or turn it into dinner debate?
I avoid it like the plague. Only a few people know my stance and as far as I am aware of its only people that interact with me outside of the internet. I'm not looking to change my mind and others aren't either. Changing one person to my thinking won't change anything and me changing to someone else's thinking won't change anything.
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Snap out of it
I have yet to find a need to go outside of the Debian repos.
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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use
Emacs
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Craaaawling in my skiiin
The most overrated band in the nu-metal era.
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What's the wildest book you've ever read?
Clockwork Orange
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Latest KDE on debian 12
Dust0741 my apologies. As others rightly pointed out I didn't answer appropriately and deleted the postt.. You won't be able to get the latest kde on Debian. You could look at Sid or Testing but I don't know if they ship that. I dont use Sid or Testing so I couldn't help you if they do.
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An answer to my prayers?
Theists would have to explain why a human does better than their idea of a god.
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Installing Linux Like It's 1999
3/4 years. Experience has been good.
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Internet Connection Issue after Fresh Install
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I actually just did a fresh install and looks like I overlooked adding essential programs step in the wiki. I added iwd before but I also just added NetworkManager. Also thought it best to just put a DE on it instead only running a WM, (I'm normally a awesome wm user on Debian). Before I was going straight from grub install completion to tty. After I started NetworkManager pinging to archlinux.org worked. Maybe sometime I can try to install it again but leave out the DE and see if it was just as simple as leaving out NetworkManager. Not sure of installing a DE would have provided needed programs for my situation or not.
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Turns out, I wanted a tiled window manager all along
Awesome was always my favorite window manager.
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Remember Cutefish? Pretty sure it's dead
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If your a chess fan, Scid vs PC is regularly updated and it's hosted on sourceforge. However I don't go there unless it's for that or other related projects.
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best linux terminal emulator
Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.
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Every goddamn time
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So what? Is it your responsibility to lead someone away from bias because you simply state you are on the left on the political spectrum?
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Every goddamn time
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Good luck. If you lean one way or another you are already biased. Inescapable.
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With knives.... thought that meant they were planning on 'fighting' it.