RE: Agnostic: a pointless term?
February 4, 2015 at 5:25 am
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2015 at 5:26 am by bennyboy.)
(February 4, 2015 at 1:04 am)whateverist Wrote: You make that sound pretty special. Do you believe it is impossible for anyone to have knowledge about gods/God? Or is your agnosticism personal, more a matter of fitting your dispositions? I only ask to find out if you think every right thinking person should share your position.No, I wouldn't expect many to hold the same position.
There are several different reasons why I consider myself agnostic. One is a general distrust of the human capacity to comprehend truth. One is the great variety of God ideas which make a single answer to a general question too difficult. Another is a leaning toward idealism as opposed to physicalism.
I believe that the truth is at a border condition: to be found at whatever is under QM, or inside a black hole, or at the Big Bang. And I think that in those conditions, there are so many ambiguities and paradoxes that words probably cease to really mean anything. In other words, I think in those cases, you might come across something you COULD call God, but whether people would choose to do so would still come down to their semantic preferences.
