RE: Agnostics
August 5, 2016 at 3:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2016 at 3:10 am by Excited Penguin.)
(August 5, 2016 at 3:05 am)robvalue Wrote: @All:
Personally, I define the position "I don't know what to believe" as weak atheism. It's trivially agnostic as well, because no beliefs implies no knowledge already.
Of course, if you define words differently to me, you'll call yourself something else. But you're still a weak atheist, to me.
A different position is "I don't know what I believe". That is indicating some actual internal disconnect, and says far more about the person than the issue at hand. I'd say that in such a rare case, the person is undefined pending further information. And again trivially agnostic.
And "I don't understand the question" is ignosticism, and is technically undefined also, I would say.
Basically, "God" is such a meaningless word that there is no sensible answer to the general question. There are only answers to specific definitions.
I agree. Do you, bennyboy?
BTW, bennyboy, I wasn't trying to upset you when I called you benny. It's just something a lot of people do here, they shorten nicknames and stuff. I think benny rolls off the tongue better, in addition to sounding better(to me, at least). I'm called EP by a lot of people, but of course they know I'm Excited Penguin and not just simply EP.