Weekly Poll: What is Your Position on Agnosticism & Atheism?

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QUITTNER wrote:

12:08 pm, Friday, April 15, 2011:
RE: Weekly Poll: What is Your Position on Agnosticism & Atheism?
..... Many people have and/or have had religious experiences - they KNOW as a result of these experiences that God exists (for them) had their prayers, or even just wishes, answered, and had help when no other help was available. For them the 2-way communications with God are very precious; they do what God wants them to do and they NEVER do what God does NOT wants them to do. That may be quite different from what clergy keeps preaching and practicing.
..... Many others never had such experiences, never had any of their prayers (if any) answered, and these people therefore KNOW that (for them) there is no God. And they act accordingly.

-Skeptic- wrote:

My position on agonisticism is that its a refuge for weak minded fence sitters too lazy to care about having an opinion.

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nina wrote:

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gnostic is with knowledge
agnostic is without knowledge
neither is about beleif - but rather, what we know or whether we can know.
agnostics are the spiritual equivelant of bisexuals - willing to go either way

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-Skeptic- wrote:

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Lol - with commitment problems ;)

nina wrote:

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yes, for a bisexual person to commit to one person, it is to pick a side on some levels
I had a conversation withe my brother in law - he was/is one of those has to be more whatever than you type people.
So, he would insist he was bisexual and he was married to a woman.
One time, at a party with his friends, he was pontificating about the worst thing a person could do to a bisexual was to force them to be faithful because it meant they couldn't express half of their sexuality.
I'd had enough of his nonsense, so I said loudly, so you're telling me that your wife is cruel to you because you say you're bisexual and she's keeping you from all the men you could be sleeping with?
I thought marriage was about 2 people exclusive of all others, and since you aren't aruging to get to sleep with other women, then why does it matter if you are also not sleeping wiht other men?
so that was the end of that party performance piece
there is nothing quite like hoisting someone by their own petard

-Skeptic- wrote:

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So I guess you won't be going along to that party soon... ;)

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-Skeptic- wrote:

My position on agonisticism is that its a refuge for weak minded fence sitters too lazy to care about having an opinion.

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Tlaloc wrote:

<quoted text>Not necessarily. Check out vincent bugliosi's Divinity of Doubt.

-Skeptic- wrote:

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Lol - with commitment problems ;)

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carync wrote:

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Really? I am not on the fence about religion. Do I KNOW there is nothing we don't yet understand? Yes, I do know that. What is god to me is not one thing resembling the organized religion gods. I only call it "god" because it's convenient. Is there something huge we don't yet understand? Is there incredible stores of information that we don't comprehend yet? Most we NEVER will? Yes. Is that unknowable? Yes. That is Ok with me. It just awes me more. Is that my god? It's not my GOD. It's my inspiration, my spiritual compass. Am I on the fence? Could I at any moment fall into the grasp of a cult (name your religion). No freaking way. I know in my mind there is no GOD. Do I know what there really is? What this all really came from? No. But I know it is, that is not up for debate. And to try and seek answers through science is my religion.

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nina wrote:

gnostic is with knowledge
agnostic is without knowledge

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nina wrote:

neither is about beleif - but rather, what we know or whether we can know. agnostics are the spiritual equivelant of bisexuals - willing to go either way

nina wrote:

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yes, for a bisexual person to commit to one person, it is to pick a side on some levels
I had a conversation withe my brother in law - he was/is one of those has to be more whatever than you type people.
So, he would insist he was bisexual and he was married to a woman.
One time, at a party with his friends, he was pontificating about the worst thing a person could do to a bisexual was to force them to be faithful because it meant they couldn't express half of their sexuality.
I'd had enough of his nonsense, so I said loudly, so you're telling me that your wife is cruel to you because you say you're bisexual and she's keeping you from all the men you could be sleeping with?
I thought marriage was about 2 people exclusive of all others, and since you aren't aruging to get to sleep with other women, then why does it matter if you are also not sleeping wiht other men?
so that was the end of that party performance piece
there is nothing quite like hoisting someone by their own petard

yon wrote:

Atheism is one step below Ignoramus