(May 16, 2017 at 10:00 pm)c172 Wrote: Hey there, ho there. Welcome! What part of the Big Blue Marble are you at, or is that classified?

I live about two miles from the defunct strip club alluded to in post #6.

Bueno.

(May 17, 2017 at 8:29 am)LastPoet Wrote:

How fares your noble mother?

Still dead.

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(May 17, 2017 at 8:07 am)Whateverist Wrote: Hello and welcome!

Perhaps not here but I confess I'm curious to know which sort of agnostic you might be.  Some agnostics simply recognize the inadequacy of their cognitive array to settle all questions.  But we get quite a few through here of a different sort altogether.  They insist they've lost belief but spend an inordinate amount of time asking how we full-on atheists make sense of the world without gods.

No rush though.  Enjoy the tea.  Think I'll go get a cuppa too.  Cheers!

Tea was good.

I would fit into your first category. I simply can't know all that's out there because I don't have a bird's-eye view of the totality of things. But by using the cognitive apparatus that I do possess, I've concluded that the world's religions and their corresponding deities are probably coping mechanisms developed by humankind to deal with questions of finitude, death, suffering, injustice, and the like.

And control! Let's not forget that minor detail!

(May 17, 2017 at 9:31 pm)ignoramus Wrote: And control! Let's not forget that minor detail!

That too.

(May 16, 2017 at 8:34 pm)Caligvla XXI Wrote: New member here who came from a conservative protestant background but now identifies as an agnostic.

Hello little boots.