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Why are you an Agnostic ?

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  • 11-04-2013 1:14pm
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    Geomy
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    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?


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    #2
    Turtwig
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    Of all the possible gods described by humanity there still is a slight possibility that one or more of them exists because I can never know anything for certain.:)
    Ignostic towards all possible gods yet to be conceptualised by humanity.


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    Penn
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    Geomy wrote: »
    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?

    Agnostic Atheist because while I don't believe there are any gods, I don't think anyone can truly know or prove if there are any gods.

    While we don't know or can't prove the existence of a god or gods, I simply don't think it's a likely scenario that they exist.


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    Beruthiel
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    Jernal wrote: »
    Of all the possible gods described by humanity there still is a slight possibility that one or more of them exists because I can never know anything for certain

    The way I look at it is, even if one of them were proven to exist, that still doesn't mean I'd call them god.
    So, I'm atheist and not even slightly agnostic.


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    achtungbarry
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    Geomy wrote: »
    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?

    I just don't know......


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    VinLieger
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    Cus im lazy :)


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    Genghiz Cohen
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    It's mostly because of my teen angst and rebellion against my parents making me clean my room.


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    Delirium
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    Geomy wrote: »
    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?
    Mother ticked the wrong box on the census :(

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #9
    bradlente
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    Why not?








    ;)






    :confused:


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    robindch
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    Uh, coz I hate god?


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    #11
    H3llR4iser
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    1 - Explaining something apparently unexplicable with "it's God's will!" is no different than saying "it's aliens!" or "it's magic!". The lazy way to approach a problem, where the desirable one would be "we don't understand how this happens...yet; We need to research and investigate";

    2 - Anywhere but religion, if something can't be proven with hard evidence, it doesn't exist / didn't happen; Don't see why this shouldn't apply to religious beliefs too;

    On a more lighthearted note if there was such thing as a God (or Goddess, why does it need to be a man?), why doesn't he/she brag about it all the time? I mean, if I was to be omniscient and almighty, I'd be making my presence visible and felt all the time (turning sea into lemonade for fun? Check. Directing a lightning bolt to that scumbag assaulting schoolgirls? Check. MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY CHILD TO BE BORN WITH DISABILITIES, SUFFER STARVATION OR ABUSE? HELL YEAH, CHECK).


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    Sycopat
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭Sycopat


    Geomy wrote: »
    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?

    Do you consider there to be a difference or simply phrasing it like that to include all possible respondants?

    Anyway, agnostic atheist.

    I don't believe in any gods, but acknowledge that I can't know for certain there are none, defined or undefined (Not sure if that technically falls under ignosticism or not, but agnostic atheist is already a mouthful.)

    My atheism comes from my assumption* that the observed universe is real.
    In it I find no gods.
    My agnosticism from the knowledge that the universe has not been fully observed.
    Gods may be where I have not looked.

    *An argument for agnosticism could be made from this too, but I hate discussions which question this assumption, and most reasonable people are either happy to accept this assumption, or wonder why I bother calling it an assumption. The answer to which being technical accuracy.


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    endacl
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    Geomy wrote: »
    Why are you an agnostic or agnostic atheist ?
    I'm not sure.


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    Lingua Franca
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    It's just a phase I'm going through.


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    Sycopat
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    endacl wrote: »
    I'm not sure.

    I see what you did there.


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    Geomy
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    A friend of mine reckons it's better to be a theist because he has someone to talk to when he's getting a 8!0w )0§


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    endacl
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    Geomy wrote: »
    A friend of mine reckons it's better to be a theist because he has someone to talk to when he's getting a 8!0w )0§
    He always has somebody to talk to. The responses may be a bit.... bubbly though!


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Geomy wrote: »
    A friend of mine reckons it's better to be a theist because he has someone to talk to when he's getting a 8!0w )0§

    What?


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    Geomy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    LordChessington wrote: »
    What?

    Ohhhh God ohhhh


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    Knasher
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    LordChessington wrote: »
    What?

    I think it is because Geomy isn't allowed to type blowjob for some reason so he just implies/kinda types it instead.


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    Turtwig
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    LordChessington wrote: »
    What?

    8= B
    ! = l
    0 = O
    w = w

    ) = j
    0 = O
    § = presumably B but with a change in tone for erotic emphasis?


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    Pherekydes
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    Over Easter, my BiL mentioned that I was an agnostic (I can't remember the context, though I'm sure it had something to do with eggs, or crosses).

    "I'm not an agnostic" I snorted.

    I'm a 7 on the Dawkins' scale.


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    Sycopat
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    endacl wrote: »
    He always has somebody to talk to. The responses may be a bit.... bubbly though!


    If he's talking to god I doubt he's looking for a response.


    I wonder if this counts as another one of those 'Gives credit to god for other peoples work' things?


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    endacl
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    Sycopat wrote: »

    I wonder if this counts as another one of those 'Gives credit to god for other peoples work' things?
    Yeah. God sucks.


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    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,530 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Nono, I got that bit. It's the entire sentence which I don't get


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    Zombrex
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    Geomy wrote: »
    A friend of mine reckons it's better to be a theist because he has someone to talk to when he's getting a 8!0w )0§

    All together now "I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus ... " :pac:


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    Geomy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    LordChessington wrote: »
    Nono, I got that bit. It's the entire sentence which I don't get

    That's ok sure you get the gist of it anyway....
    I'm a layman and speak in my local dialect,sorry if you couldn't get the sentence.

    Whata dlanguage do you dunderstand :P


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    Sin City
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    Says it all really


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    Sin City
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    Zombrex wrote: »
    All together now "I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus ... " :pac:

    That explains this

    0-hookers-4-jesus.jpg

    hooker.jpg


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    car.kar
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    I read the Bible. That's when I started to go, "ah here ... it's all a load of crap really, isn't it?"

    And now I believe in what I can see around me, and I don't worry about spending eternity in hell because I accidentally stepped on a snail the other day and squished it.


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    kylith
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    I've been finding myself getting more and more gnostic recently. It is possible that the existence of gods can be proven, it only takes the slightest bit of effort on a god's part to provide this proof. If they can't be bothered to prove they exist then I will take it as read that they don't.


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