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Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
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RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
(October 2, 2015 at 5:28 am)robvalue Wrote: Further thoughts:

Saying you're not sure if you're an atheist or a theist is a perfectly acceptable answer. That's not the same as actually refusing to answer the question of belief, which "just agnostic" is guilty of. Reading our own brains can be hard sometimes. There is no duty to identify as one or the other. I suppose it's possible for different parts of the brain to hold different beliefs, so you could technically be both.

I'm not sure how much this is bothering you, but my advice is to ask yourself, does it matter if there is a god? What difference would it make to anything? We have absolutely no evidence it is interacting or even interested in us, if there is one. To me, it would make no difference at all if it were proved tomorrow. The fact that I'm an atheist is simply a reaction to the evidence. I'd carry on as I do now regardless.

This.

It used to bother me quite a bit, and still pops up from time to time, but it has been an idle curiosity as of late.
Unfortunately, there are moments when the "dread of the question" comes back to haunt me, something demands I know, perhaps an intolerance to uncertainty of some kind.

I think that's because it could be the most important question, or the most banal, unimportant question. I just don't know what the consequences are.
It's all quite confusing to me, this idea of belief.

I think hesitism would suite the sensation between experiencing disbelief and belief.

From the "haesitō", which is to be uncertain.

I wonder if that will catch on.

Edit: I'm not sure if that's the correct etymology, haha.
But I think it is, so we'll go with that.

Regarding the previous post:
Do you mean, in a sense, two different knowledge theories? One for the external world, and one for the internal world?
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words,

"Behold Plato's man!"






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RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options? - by Psychonaut - October 2, 2015 at 5:39 am

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