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Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic.
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RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic.
(November 8, 2016 at 3:46 am)TheHuxleyAgnostic Wrote: For any claim: X, you can believe X is true, believe X is false, or have no belief either way. 

Person A: belief X is true, no belief X is false
Person B: no belief X is true, no belief X is false
Person C: no belief X is true, belief X is false

You can do it, if you want, but I think it's nonsensical to pretend B and C are the same, just because they share "no belief X is true", when B also shares "no belief X is false" with A. B is neither, but shares a commonality with both.

Nope. You either believe something or you do not. There are two separate claims that you are confusing and you've created a false dichotomy out of them. There is a claim that there is a god. There is another claim that there is not a god.

A theist will believe that there is a god.

An atheist will not accept that belief.

You can also accept or not accept the belief that there is no god. Either one can be an atheist.

I neither accept the belief that there is a god or the claim that there is not a god.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 2:19 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 2:51 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 3:21 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 3:45 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Grandizer - November 8, 2016 at 3:56 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Grandizer - November 8, 2016 at 4:37 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Grandizer - November 8, 2016 at 5:15 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Grandizer - November 8, 2016 at 6:04 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 3:57 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:33 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:00 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:17 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:06 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Grandizer - November 8, 2016 at 4:18 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:19 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:53 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 4:58 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by brewer - November 8, 2016 at 11:58 am
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by brewer - November 8, 2016 at 12:55 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jesster - November 8, 2016 at 5:49 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Sal - November 8, 2016 at 12:32 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Minimalist - November 8, 2016 at 12:45 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Whateverist - November 8, 2016 at 1:41 pm
RE: Hi, an agnostic here ... just agnostic. - by Jehanne - November 8, 2016 at 10:18 pm

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