Anyone here a Category 7?

[vulcanlogician]

Like I said in the other thread: "God exists" is not a falsifiable hypothesis. Therefore complete certainty can never be obtained.

[I_am_not_mafia]

1 and 7 are all dishonest answers.

I can understand Category 7, but Category 1 is a complete enigma to me.  How can anyone be 100% certain that God exists, let alone a particular God??

Because of faith, lots of conditioning over time and personal experience.

Much in the same way as a load of drugs will make you 'know' that you can fly.

[brewer]

If I can't be an 8 I'll settle for 7.

[Joods]

I feel like I'm as positive as I can be that there is no god. That should br 7, not 6, no? The idea that "we can't know for sure" is giving in to one of religions' many logical exemptions. Would you really say the same about other things besides God?

I was going to say 6 but after reading this, 7 can only make sense.

[robvalue]

I’m ignostic, ?/7. The question is meaningless to me without a lot of clarification from the person asking me.

[brewer]

I’m ignostic, ?/7. The question is meaningless to me without a lot of clarification from the person asking me.

My name is Clara. Now answer.

[I_am_not_mafia]

I’m ignostic, ?/7. The question is meaningless to me without a lot of clarification from the person asking me.

Being ignostic is one of the reasons why I consider myself a 7. Because if you could define what a god was then you'd find that it violated what we do know to be universally true (the laws of Thermodynamics, the speed of light etc).

It is not possible to say that something exists if it is impossible to define. This for me is the same as saying that it does not exist.

[vulcanlogician]

I feel like I'm as positive as I can be that there is no god. That should br 7, not 6, no? The idea that "we can't know for sure" is giving in to one of religions' many logical exemptions. Would you really say the same about other things besides God?

I don't think it's a logical exemption. Nor is it "giving in." It's reasonable to approach unknowns with a skeptical attitude. Skepticism is neither denial nor belief, but suspension in between until solid evidence is provided.

Claiming certainty where there is insufficient evidence is for theists. I'd like to think we're better than that.

[Lucanus]

I'm a 6.9 because I'm a naughty, naughty boy.

But seriously though, I'm a 7 for all theistic deities and a 6 for indeterminate deistic intellects (though I would be more ignostic than agnostic in their regard). So it averages to 6.9 I guess? Nice.

[The Valkyrie]

6.