• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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        Number three keeps randomly coming up in Islam.

        When performing wudhu, each limb must be cleaned three times.
        When going to sajdah and ruku, a quick prayer is recited three times.
        When not being able to fulfill some pilgrimage requirements, people fast for three days.
        When drinking a glass of water, it is done in three gulps.
        …

        Some of this is actually written rules but a good chunk is just adults being taught that and passing along, and don’t actually have to be three (in fact, very much country/culture specific, or even specific to different schools within the same branch of Islam)

        I myself used to be confused and stressed as a child on why we brush our teeth two times a day because “everything else is three!!”

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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    Taoist bad driver: I am constantly following the Tao, and for some reason the traffic was going against the flow of the Tao. it is the fault of society if they decides that they must follow artificial rules of driving instead of the Tao.

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    This had a chance to be funny, but they had to throw something in something about atheist that isn’t even remotely based in reality and not even remotely funny. It’s just a cheap shot for the sake of being a cheap shot. Pathetic…

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        The others play off things already generally associated with the religion in question. If they couldn’t come up with something remotely relevant and funny for atheist then they should have left it out. The reason the probably struggled with this is because all of the others are religions and atheism is not.

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          Atheism is totally a religion. You believe that there are no gods. If anything on that list is not a religion, it’s agnosticism 😉

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            belief != religion though, religion has some other characteristics as well to fullfill like having rules, maybe some scripture, some basis on what to get the values from and atheism doesn’t do that.

            However the post is quite funny and why is it that atheists on the internet are often way too easily butthurt…

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              why is it that atheists on the internet are often way too easily butthurt…

              Because they’re not trained to take it in the butt like a 12yo altar boy.

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            No, an atheist just doesn’t believe in any gods. If sufficient evidence came along, then they’d change that stance. As such, atheism is not a statement that absolutely no gods exist.

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              Weak. I’m not an atheist because I don’t believe in gods, but because I wouldn’t worship gods even if they were objectively real. If the god was worthy of my worship, then they wouldn’t demand it in the first place. I’d rather build a moral philosophy out of making life better for others than the authority of the powerful

              Also, this post is funny af

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            You’re having fun, but a lot of atheists do seem treat it as a competing religion

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            Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods, not an active disbelief in any. There are many agnostic atheists who aren’t convinced deities exist due to the lack of evidence, but won’t claim they don’t exist outright because it’s an unfalsifiable claim to make since nobody can prove or disprove the existence of any deity in a falsifiable and verifiable way. To make such a claim would be dishonest.

            In a way, saying that atheism is a religion is like saying that not playing baseball is a sport.

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              In a way, saying that atheism is a religion is like saying that not playing baseball is a sport.

              Rather, saying “playing abaseball (the opposite of baseball) is a sport”.

              There’s a difference between not playing any sport and playing a sport that is specifically not baseball.

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      Funny is subjective but damn, to be this offended when someone pokes fun at your belief system in a post where they poke fun at basically every belief system shows how fragile your belief is.

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        As a card-carrying, baby-eating atheist, I’m obliged to point out that atheism is a belief system in the same way as not playing golf is a sport.

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        What on earth makes you think that I’m offended? I just find the ‘joke’ stupid because it mixes in things that simply don’t belong. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to see a similar joke that talks about perch, bass, salmon, catfish, and logs? Would that make perfect sense? Especially if the logs were somehow treated like another fish?

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      None of them are realistic. All of them are making fun. None of them are serious. The original authors aren’t singling you or anyone else out. You’re being overly sensitive.

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        You must have failed Sesame Street… one of these things is not like the others. That thing is atheism since all of the others are religions and atheism is not. (I will actually correct myself… agnosticism also doesn’t stand alone as a religion, so two of these things are not like the others.)

        The problem is that they are mixing things that may be adjacent such as apples and oranges are both fruits, but an orange is not an apple. It would make no sense if it was talking about different types of apples and they threw in clementines. Same problem…

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          You ok?

          That thing is atheism since all of the others are religions and atheism is not.

          I’m not saying atheism is a religion, but I think probably most of the bigger religions you might think of have some adherents who claim it not to be a religion. I’ve heard Christians say it’s “not a religion, it’s a relationship” (with God). I’ve heard Buddhists say “it’s not a religion, it’s a philosophy”. I doubt there’s broad consensus among satanists whether satanism is a religion or not. Plus, surely nobody would call pastafarianism a religion with a straight face. And Cthulhu cultism isn’t a religion in the real world at least. (Unless you count some of the satanists with a Lovecraftian slant… but I doubt that’s what the poster in the screenshot was referring to.)

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            I’ve heard Christians say it’s “not a religion, it’s a relationship”

            I’ve heard Christians say a lot of stupid shit… that’s not an argument for or against anything.

            Even in the context of made-up religions, pastafarianism and Cthulu cultism are sill religions. Atheism is not, in any way whatever, a religion. It’s like calling a lilly-pad a fish.

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      hi, do you see the part where it says “bad driver”? seems pretty accurate to me

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        Were you looking? Do you get to mark your bingo card or some kind of list? Do you often find things funny when they mix in something that isn’t actually the same type of thing as the rest? Like, would you find it funny if there were neurologists, cardiologists, nephrologists , and ventriloquists in a similar ‘joke’?

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      remotely based in reality

      You must understand the comedy of this in relation to atheism, as in “I have judged that what I know to be empirically true is enough to say my judgement is correct” which is both the joke and what you are saying so you just accelerated the joke

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        My ‘judgement’ is that there is no evidence of any gods, do I don’t believe in any. It is absolutely correct for me to say that I don’t believe in any. Even if you personally do believe in any particular god or gods, there are dozens or hundreds that you don’t believe exist. The atheist just believes in fewer gods than you do.

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      Wait, didn’t I just see you in another comment section complaining about a (very tame) dadjoke not being funny? The one with the Yoda meme.

      Is this like your thing? Telling everyone that you don’t think OPs joke was funny?

      (That said, I kind of actually agree with you in this case)