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Topic: Poll; theist, atheist or agnostic
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Nighttrain
Member (Idle past 4022 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: 06-08-2004
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Re: Mark me down, please
By special dispensation from the Big Guy, deceased Evos can post here from heaven.
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Nighttrain
Member (Idle past 4022 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: 06-08-2004
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Re: Mark me down, please
You know, that just got me thinking. Is there anyone on EvC (or used to be, I should say) that you know they have passed away? Anyone ever think about that? How would we know if someone died. To us it would like they just stopped posting, but it could be that some of those members died and we just don't know about. So, anyone know of members that have passed away?
By special dispensation from the Big Guy, deceased Evos can post here from heaven. Oops, left out the quote
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Parasomnium
Member Posts: 2224 Joined: 07-15-2003
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Re: Mark me down, please
nemesis_juggernaut writes: How would we know if someone died. To us it would like they just stopped posting, but it could be that some of those members died and we just don't know about. I have arranged it so that if I don't post for more than two months, an automated procedure will take over that starts posting random text. You won't know the difference. But anyway, you've given us a great new metaphor for dying. For example, did you know that today it's exactly fifty years ago that German dramatist Bertolt Brecht stopped posting in East Berlin at age 58? Please mark me down as an atheist.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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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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iano
Member (Idle past 1969 days) Posts: 6165 From: Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Joined: 07-27-2005
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Re: Swing Vote
It bothers me no end. Hallelujah 
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Hyroglyphx
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Message 141 of 295 (339959)
08-14-2006 9:21 AM
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Updated update
THEIST1. Nemesis Juggernaut 2. Faith 3. Mjfloresta 4. Catholic Scientist 5. Percy 6. Iano 7. Arachnophilia 8. Buzsaw 9. Phat 10. Jazzns 11. Trixie 12. Tal 13. GDR 14. Anglagard 15. Purpledawn AGNOSTIC1. Creavolution 2. Omnivorous 3. Schrafinator 4. MangyTiger 5. Rail Bird 6. Rick JB 7. Inflixion 8. Tusko ATHEIST1. Robinrohan 2. Ramoss 3. Subbie 4. Annafan 5. Chronos 6. Corpagyps 7. Randy Feagley 8. Crashfrog 9. Mutty6969 10. CK 11. Chiroptera 12. Michael 13. Nighttrain 14. NosyNed 15. Jaderis 16. Parasomnium 17. Quetzal NONE OF OUR BUISNESS1. DrJones RINGO-- IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF1. RINGO (there can only be one Ringo to rule them all) Edited by nemesis_juggernaut, : edit to add........ again.
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Tusko
Member (Idle past 130 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: 10-01-2004
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Re: New results
Its interesting how finely balanced this appears to be at the moment. I suspect that there might be something inherent in the nature of this poll to produce parity. That is, people are being flushed out of the woodwork to support their team when they fall behind. So in that spirit... Stick me down as an agnostic - From my limited experience I'm starting to believe that if there is a god or gods then s/he/they are so adept at covering hi/s/er/their tracks that their existence is/are undeterminable. But even this is a tentative position. So that probably makes me a mumbler.
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Quetzal
Member (Idle past 5901 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: 01-09-2002
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Re: Updated update
Hmmm. I seem to have dropped off the list. Probably as a result of someone protesting the poll's methodology - which I thought was a pretty silly objection to an opt-in, non-scientifically valid poll anyway. However, you can either put me down as "atheist", or go with your guess concerning Baptist fundamentalist. 
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Hyroglyphx
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Message 144 of 295 (339978)
08-14-2006 11:32 AM
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Reply to: Message 142 by Tusko
08-14-2006 9:45 AM
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Re: New results
Its interesting how finely balanced this appears to be at the moment. I suspect that there might be something inherent in the nature of this poll to produce parity. That is, people are being flushed out of the woodwork to support their team when they fall behind. Yeah, I have to say that I'm surprised how close the poll really is. Its good. Some people are apparently theists that I would have certainly pegged them as being atheist. I theism is a bit ambiguous because that could encompass many different beliefs, whereas, atheism is pretty straightforward. Not gonna have any denominational rivalry there, aye?
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Hyroglyphx
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Message 145 of 295 (339980)
08-14-2006 11:34 AM
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Reply to: Message 143 by Quetzal
08-14-2006 10:54 AM
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Re: Updated update
Hmmm. I seem to have dropped off the list. Probably as a result of someone protesting the poll's methodology - which I thought was a pretty silly objection to an opt-in, non-scientifically valid poll anyway. You hit the nail on the head. I didn't want to take you off the list, however, the methodology was placed into question. Now, everyone has to be specifically tell me in their words and in this thread what they want to placed as. But you and Tusko have been added.
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ekman
Junior Member (Idle past 699 days) Posts: 21 From: North Carolina, USA Joined: 02-27-2006
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Message 146 of 295 (339992)
08-14-2006 12:57 PM
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Been lurking here at EvC for quite a while, thought I'd go ahead and chime in. Put me down for agnostic, please.
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Hyroglyphx
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Message 147 of 295 (339994)
08-14-2006 1:14 PM
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Don't you just love 'labels?'
THEIST1. Nemesis Juggernaut 2. Faith 3. Mjfloresta 4. Catholic Scientist 5. Percy 6. Iano 7. Arachnophilia 8. Buzsaw 9. Phat 10. Jazzns 11. Trixie 12. Tal 13. GDR 14. Anglagard 15. Purpledawn AGNOSTIC1. Creavolution 2. Omnivorous 3. Schrafinator 4. MangyTiger 5. Rail Bird 6. Rick JB 7. Inflixion 8. Tusko 9. Ekman 10. ReverendDG ATHEIST1. Robinrohan 2. Ramoss 3. Subbie 4. Annafan 5. Chronos 6. Corpagyps 7. Randy Feagley 8. Crashfrog 9. Mutty6969 10. CK 11. Chiroptera 12. Michael 13. Nighttrain 14. NosyNed 15. Jaderis 16. Parasomnium 17. Quetzal 18. NeuroCycle NONE OF OUR BUISNESS1. DrJones RINGO-- IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF1. RINGO (there can only be one Ringo to rule them all) Edited by nemesis_juggernaut, : edit to add Edited by nemesis_juggernaut, : edit to add
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NeuroCycle
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Message 148 of 295 (340004)
08-14-2006 2:18 PM
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Atheist Edited by NeuroCycle, : No reason given.
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ReverendDG
Member (Idle past 4139 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: 06-06-2005
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Message 149 of 295 (340046)
08-14-2006 5:40 PM
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agnostic for me
FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. - the devil's dictonary
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Nighttrain
Member (Idle past 4022 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: 06-08-2004
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Breakdown
One thing the list proves is that creos can`t say they are heavily outnumbered at EVC. At least at this point in time.
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