Thread:User talk:Armondikov/More meaningless words/reply

I do not get this obsession with specificity. I mean I do in some very specific examples. I'd like to know exactly what drug you are giving me and at what strength, and knowing that a particular buggaboo is one buggaboo and not another is helpful in deciding if you are dying from food poisoning or just sick with a flu. But the obsession to make the word "word" mean something specific. To make religion have one meaning that every single person in the room shares, confuses me. I guess I just don't go through life worried that our discussions of "atheist", assuming the discussions are at all worthwhile, will fail if you think an atheist believes there is no god, and I think an atheist does not believe in a god.

to me, if you are in an argument that is falling into these "but is it really a god" game, then you've already lost or the battle is totally not worth it.