(January 19, 2018 at 12:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Whereas my gnosticism is based on the simple fact that I am not required to plumb the entire universe for novel godlike things in order to confidently state that no one is staring over your shoulder..watching you piss...making sure you don't shake it enough times to count as masturbation.
In my experience (and opinion), much "agnosticism" is predicate on the social or subconscious proposition that to say that gods do not exist is somehow a relatively difficult claim to demonstrate, or impossible to demonstrate. That it's "heavy". It isn't, that's just what the religious have been bleating for centuries, is all. Undue deference of concept.
I know that there are no gods as much and for the same reasons that I know the sun will rise tommorrow, or that there are five digits on my hand. If these things do not count as knowledge, then nothing does, and the terms gnosticism and agnosticism have no sensible referent.
I have no problem maintaining an all-truths-accepted agnostic stance while also dismissing silly stuff for what it is. I'm just not going to accept responsibility for proving a negative which will be futile. Besides, life is short enough without taking on the refutation of every silly notion someone plunks on my computer screen. Letting believers know I can't take such things seriously and offering a psychological explanation why it seems so plausible to them suits me better. But you go get em', you're good at it.
