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Topic: Poll; theist, atheist or agnostic
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robinrohan
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Message 139 of 295 (339935)
08-14-2006 7:22 AM
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Reply to: Message 107 by nator
08-12-2006 6:18 PM
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Re: Swing Vote
I don't feel like I'm in limbo. I'm not sure if I do or not. It depends on what is meant by "limbo."
I don't feel like I'm searching for anything, because nothing is missing from my life. How wonderful. Probably your robust enthusiasm for the wonders of life keeps you from having any unfulfilled needs.
I don't feel any need at all to decide that gods exist or not. I certainly do. Very important.
Perhaps Agnostics have a much greater tolerance for uncertainy and ambiguity than everyone else. I have no tolerance whatsoever.
It doesn't bother me in the least that I don't know if the supernatural exists or not. It bothers me no end. Edited by robinrohan, : No reason given. Edited by robinrohan, : changed "needs" to "unfulfilled needs."
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robinrohan
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Re: Breakdown
A good chunk of those theists are evolutionists Yeah, I'm wondering how they reconcile it. But that is for another thread.
"Your friends, if they can, may bury you with some distinction, and set up a monument, to let posterity see that your dust lies under such a stone; and when that is done, all is done. Your place is filled up by another, the world is just in the same state it was, you are blotted out of its sight, and as much forgotten by the world as if you had never belonged to it."--William Law
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robinrohan
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Message 158 of 295 (340119)
08-14-2006 11:24 PM
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Reply to: Message 157 by anglagard
08-14-2006 11:08 PM
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Re: Breakdown in Communication
there are many ways how one believes in God. I beg your pardon? "Ways" and "how" don't exactly go together.
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robinrohan
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Re: Atheist
I would venture to say that most agnostics tend to lean towards atheistic tendencies. When I was an agnostic, I was definately leaning towards atheism, but, I understood that simple principle that I could not disprove a negative. However, there are two people who posted as agnostics who claim they lean towards theism. Seems to be a lot of leaning going on. At any rate, the practical result of agnosticism is that you behave as though God did not exist.
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robinrohan
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Message 183 of 295 (340371)
08-15-2006 6:23 PM
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Reply to: Message 182 by nator
08-15-2006 5:33 PM
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Re: Swing Vote
Knowing what you do about my character, such as you have been able to ascertain from my posts here, do you really think I'm the sort to "settle"? To be content with mediocrity? Oh, brother.
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robinrohan
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Message 185 of 295 (340386)
08-15-2006 8:13 PM
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Reply to: Message 184 by nator
08-15-2006 7:38 PM
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I'm trying to do some good
You may want to live your life a sullen, cynical malcontent, jealously poo-pooing everyone who isn't as jaded as you are, if that gets you off. Schraf, I can assure you that I am not a "sullen, cynical malcontent." Admittedly, I am a little jaded, but aren't we all? I am trying to do you some good, but you won't listen. One cannot go through life living in a bubble-world. This is what these boasters do. If you do, you won't experience anything except some stuff you made up. This will not do. We--you and I--want to experience reality, not something we made up. Do you want to end up like Jar, living in some sentimental world of make-believe? No, we want to experience reality, for better or worse.
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robinrohan
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Re: Atheist AND theist?
And it's possible to respect almost any image of the sacred while embracing none blindly. This poll is not about what one respects. It's about what one believes.
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robinrohan
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Message 220 of 295 (340839)
08-17-2006 1:33 PM
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Reply to: Message 219 by Brian
08-17-2006 1:25 PM
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Born-Again Atheist Brian is an atheist theologian and football hooligan on the side.
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robinrohan
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Re: Atheist AND theist?
By 'respect' I meant more than a kind of cosmopolitan politeness. I really like the way you express yourself, even if sounds sometimes rather ambiguous to me. But it's very well-written.
It's all art, you know. Now that sounds atheistic. Edited by robinrohan, : No reason given.
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robinrohan
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Re: Atheist AND theist?
There is a place for ambiguity Yeah. Art, not philosophy.
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robinrohan
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Message 264 of 295 (341875)
08-21-2006 8:25 AM
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Reply to: Message 263 by Phat
08-21-2006 7:40 AM
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Re: More updates
The definition of a deist, however, strikes me as concluding that God is an accepted concept within the parameters of human wisdom and that God is not mysterious or supernatural. The fact that Deists by definition base the origin of the concept of God within the human mind gives me cause to label them outside of strict theistic belief, which would see God (gods) as independant of human thought, reasoning, or definition. The god of the Deists is real. He's just not personal.
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