December 2011
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eclecticfuck asked: Browsing through this blog made me certain that I am indeed agnostic, neither a thiest nor athiest agnostic, swinging between the two depending on my environment and psychological state. Coming from a Muslim background I'm often quite appalled over the amount of Strong Atheism in Secular circles concerning Arabs and Muslims, I don't identify with "Ex-Muslims" so the whole...
April 2011
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“You should live your life and try to make the world a better place for your...”
– The Atheist’s Wager, an atheistic response to Pascal’s Wager.
I really like this argument because it doesn’t assume that we can have knowledge of whether theists & non-atheist agnostics are correct.
(via pianycist)
March 2011
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Remembering Agnosticism
zeitvox:
XHerakleitos - 11/15/10
Puzzling over a trend to dismiss agnosticism, I ran into a post by Caesar, the esteemed Imperator at Arstechnica:
Agnosticism is the most reasonable position to take with regards to the supernatural. Let me unpack this, because it’s possible to read that sentence in 1,000 different ways.
First, my view argues that certainty either that God does or does not exist...
January 2011
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Specter of Reason: Why I Am Not A Teapot Agnostic →
A short essay about agnosticism and Russell’s Teapot by a blogger who self-describes as “strong atheist” and “theological noncognitivist.”
schierl:
I’m agnostic. Sometimes I wish that I was fully an atheist.
Revelation: I need more freethinkers in my life.
Hi there!
December 2010
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Another Question (Agnostics)
hatefulatheist:
So I don’t plan on turning this into a daily thing by any means but I thought of another good question I’d like to ask my followers today. Perhaps this one is relevant to more people on my list then the last. It is directed to people that recognize themselves as being “agnostic”. To avoid any confusion on definitions I am referring to people that have taken the stance that they...
What is Agnosticism?
lilro-curiousthing:
Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of deities, ghosts, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove. It is often put forth as a middle ground between theism and atheism, though...
November 2010
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“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his nonexistence, it...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
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gematriya asked: Do you believe that an agnostic can also be religious?
cocknbull asked: Sorry to bother you, but I was fascinated by your most recent post, and just wanted to clarify: essentially your reason for describing yourself as an agnostic is because there might be a "god" of some conceivable definition that you cannot (or, seeking to be as honest as possible, will not) definitively say does or does not exist?
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Fuck Yeah Agnosticism: Agnostics →
indifferentuniverse:
fuckyeahagnosticism:
Actually, there are theist agnostics. There are also agnostics, such as myself, who are neither atheist nor theist. A person can hold a belief without claiming knowledge of if the belief is true.
I know there are theist agnostics. But the “undecided” agnostics are all atheist. You just need to answer the question “Do you believe god exists?”....
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“Donnie, an atheist is someone who denies altogether the existence of God. You’re...”
– Dr. Lilian Thurman, Donnie Darko (via raincoatandaxe)
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Agnostics
indifferentuniverse:
The current popular definition of agnosticism is as someone who is neither a theist nor an atheist - as someone who is “undecided” when it comes to the question of god’s existence. I’ve come a lot of self-proclaimed agnostics, who like to claim some kind of philosophical high-ground, and see atheists as “just as dogmatic as theists”. Some agnostics never really contemplate...
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“You don’t question what you believe, or cannot. I must.”
– Hypatia
from the film Agora (2009)
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Definitions are helpful.
je-taime-ma-cherie:
ag·nos·tic
[ag-nos-tik] Show IPA–noun1.a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause,as god, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
2.a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
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October 2010
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“Science is agnostic: by its very nature it is incapable of saying whether a...”
– George Musser, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory (via thx-1138, abr) (via blogut)
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What this blog is and is not
This blog will not be
anti-religious
anti-atheist
strictly reductive materialist
strictly dualist
strictly logical positivist
strictly transcendental idealist
strictly Kantian
strictly existentialist
Islamophobic
anti-Semitic
homophobic
transphobic
generalizing all religions as Abrahamic
generalizing Christianity itself, Judaism itself or Islam itself as necessarily homophobic
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