RE: What is the right definition of agnostic?
June 23, 2016 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 11:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 23, 2016 at 8:38 pm)abaris Wrote:Making us gods to ants, and making smart people gods to dumb people, making 1+1=2 "god"...and also unknowable.... The knots people twist themselves into over this god business is beyond my understanding, entirely.(June 23, 2016 at 8:18 pm)dom.donald Wrote: i.e. i have no belief in God, but that I think the Truth™ (as God is defined) is unknowable.
Depends on the definition of god. I like to call it higher intelligence, which I can't rule out.
To me, this is awfully simple. If you've ruled out the spirits that inhabit the narratives of our ignorant past - you aren't an agnostic in any meaningful sense. Atheism, gnostic, agnostic, or otherwise...is not a position on the existence of alien life. It is not a position on the availability of knowledge-in-principle, in the general...or of the existence of truth.
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