(June 22, 2021 at 12:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 22, 2021 at 12:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nonsense when I was agreeing with you? Ok.
No, nonsense about Huxley, the word ‘agnostic’, Orwell, and super cognition.
Boru
Huxley invented a word that did not exist in ancient Greece.
He cobbled the prefix "a" with "gnostic" or "gnosis" suffix. That combo never existed in the original Greek language.
"a" meant "without" "gnosis" means knowledge. But "without knowledge" does not denote what someone is "without knowledge of".
So if we are to use Huxley's word properly, it can only be a qualifier word that can be used between "agnostic theist" or "agnostic atheist".
An a outright theist would be a Christian, or Muslim who claims to know that their god is absolutely real. An "agnostic theist" would be one who leans to a God being real, but admits they don't know for sure. Conversely, an outright atheist claims their is no God. Whereas an "agnostic atheist" leans to no God/gods existing but isn't sure.
Huxley fucked up by trying to make "I don't know" a stand alone word, when in reality if we insist on using that word, it is only pragmatic in being a qualifying word.
And what is wrong with rightfully stating that the omi concept of a God is Orwellian. It knows everything, it sees everything, even when you shit and pee and have sex. I'd call such a claim Orwellian.
"Super cognition" is my term for "God", a mythological superman.
