My experience with Christians At school

[alexrose]

Sorry. No debate from me...I think I agree with everything you say. Except for maybe the disappointment at continued existence. I'd be exceedingly happy with that.

[OZ_Nick]

I take your point, actually I was talking from an intellectual POV. From a personal POV I too would be extremely happy about the event!

Regrettably (again from the personal/emotional POV) the liklihood of that is in my opinion is exceedingly small. Still that is not a council for despair. There are truly more than enough wonders in this world and more than enough things to give one's life meaning. Not least of which is doing things that really help other people.

Nick

[St John the Blasphemist]

Agnostic: A person who holds no belief as to the existence or not of a god or gods.

Too many people assert that, since nobody can know, we must all be agnostics. And some atheists call themselves agnostics because they do not understand (or hold to) the above definitions.

Discordian teachings, combined with my own observations, have lead me to believe and not believe that both everything exists & nothing exists at the same time.

Does that make me an a-agnostic, and, according to my previous statement wouldn't that make me an a-a-agnostic as well.

Me smells a whiff of Von Neumann's Catastrophe coming on.

St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Infinite Regression

[Sir Francis Drake]

Tag, you're gnostic!

I can't be an atheist, because I do not know that there is no God. I also do not know that there is one. But my mind is open to the possibility of either.

I choose to worship the FSM because he is thought to be so forgiving and tolerant. I love those qualities in a God.

[Poincare's Stepchild]

Tag, you're gnostic!

I can't be an atheist, because I do not know that there is no God. I also do not know that there is one. But my mind is open to the possibility of either.

I choose to worship the FSM because he is thought to be so forgiving and tolerant. I love those qualities in a God.

Ah...expesses my own feelings on the subject. Another devout agnostic, I see.

[St John the Blasphemist]

But I know that a God exists, but I also know that a God doesn't exist. As I said, I believe everything exists but nothing exists at the same time.

So - as I said - would that make me an a-agnostic, or would it make me an a-antignostic, or what?

I don't believe the 'gnostic' brand fits, due to the deliberate contradiction in my logic. But hey - find me a box & I'll make sure it doesn't fit.

This is usually when people of lesser understanding throw up their arms and say "I don't understand you"

St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Existence or Lack Thereof

[boghog]

I don't believe the 'gnostic' brand fits, due to the deliberate contradiction in my logic. But hey - find me a box & I'll make sure it doesn't fit.

Plus, the term "gnostic" is already taken:

...in a religious context, to be 'Gnostic' should be understood as being reliant not on knowledge in a general sense, but as being specially receptive to mystical or esoteric experiences of direct participation with the divine. Indeed, in most Gnostic systems the sufficient cause of salvation is this 'knowledge of' ('acquaintance with') the divine.

Does that make me an a-agnostic, and, according to my previous statement wouldn't that make me an a-a-agnostic as well.

You could just use an infinite number of 'a's at the beginning, then attach "gnostic" at the end. Since infinity has as much claim to being even as it does to being odd, you've covered both bases.

[Sir Francis Drake]

How about AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGnostic?

[St John the Blasphemist]

How about AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGnostic?

I like it!!!

Does that mean people who subscribe to pirate-based theology could be known as AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGtheists?

St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Liking Stuff

[Fredrick2003]

lol, nice...