RE: Ignosticism, Theism, or Gnostic Atheism
January 28, 2022 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2022 at 1:27 am by Disagreeable.)
(January 24, 2022 at 6:32 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Gnostic atheism, naturally. I don't see a problem with it, nor would I call it a theory. There are no gods, full stop.
How would you disprove an undetectable and unfalsifiable deistic god?
(January 24, 2022 at 12:27 am)Helios Wrote: No it falls on Gnostics because they claim to know
Nobody here, I mean.
(January 24, 2022 at 6:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'd go with ignosticism - the idea that the question 'Does God exist' is inherently meaningless and can never be made meaningful. It's like asking 'What colour is Tuesday?'
Boru
This person gets it.
If somebody thinks that the onus is on the ignostic then they just don't understand ignosticism.
(January 24, 2022 at 3:18 pm)brewer Wrote:(January 23, 2022 at 10:41 pm)Lobster Lover Wrote: All statements are truth statements about a thing or things' existence or existences.
That needs a whole lot of philosophical justification.
Then what you just said would by the same token. Personally, I disagree. Not all claims are epistemic claims.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
