(September 17, 2016 at 6:25 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 5:40 pm)Emjay Wrote: I feel like I'm at a bit of an impasse now... so much so that I don't know whether I should downgrade myself from an atheist to an agnostic.
You can be both you know.
And frankly under different assumptions you can be both gnostic and agnostic about your atheism. For example when people talk to me about yhwh (or any other human created god for that matter), I'm a gnostic atheist. But when people talk to me about a generic god, or some sort of pantheist "oversoul" I'm an agnostic atheist.
Yeah maybe, but maybe it's a bit generous at the moment. My current position is basically existential crisis/don't know what to think anymore/back to the drawing board/everything I took for granted now seems to me as if it rests on very shaky foundations. But that said, I would have a similar position to you on the god point... a generic god is one thing... and something I could be agnostic about... but a specific god doesn't follow from it, specially since the current offerings have nothing to say on these sorts of questions anyway. So even if I concluded I thought there was or could be a god, that would be as far as it went.
