Systematically Dismantling Atheism

[Losty]

I do sometimes think that this "you cannot know" business is just an effect of having had the notion placed on a pedestal for so long. A benefit of longstanding cultural dominance that even exerts a pull over those who otherwise do not believe or do not ascribe a single ounce of credibility to the idea. Those subtle ways that religious tradition has built a bastion for itself in our societies and even our minds.

Sometimes I'm glad I escaped what I see as a yoke in that regard...but I probably have similar ticks about other subjects waiting to be discovered.

How about yourself Losty, why is it that you think that I cannot know (and I assume you think the same for yourself)?

Hmm...I don't know :p

Really it just makes sense that you can know about things that can be seen, touched, studied, tested etc., but you can't know about things that don't exist. Probably it's actually it's own way of predicting the existence of something. If it cannot be seen, touched, studied, or tested then it likely doesn't exist. That or we lack the technology. I believe that there are no gods, but I don't feel comfortable saying I know that their are no gods because it can't be proven.

(as far as that list of things that you say we cannot know - I'll just use the same line for your own name, the sun rising, your very existence or the existence of anything - maybe "know" is a meaningless word - and we should stop using it entirely? I wouldn't, I don't think that it is......but what do I know?)

Sometimes I feel this way. Sometimes I don't. Most of the time I feel the same about the possibility of not being about to know anything as a do about the possibility of the existence of god/s. That being, I simply don't care.