by BU2B 288 Replies latest jw friends
I have never met anybody who thought the non-existence of an invisible god could be PROVEN one way or the other.
Therefore the word agnostic is just a truism that tells us nothing.
we can't even know for sure if there's a very tiny teapot orbiting our planet.
There is, its called Punjana. I know its true. She speaks to me and tells me to make more tea. You can ask Punjana yourself if you just have ears to HEAR and eyes to SEE
my lord told me he'd be an agnostic if he wasn't already an atheist.
The word has lost its meaning.
People who haven't done the necessary work to investigate the evidence use it as an excuse.
I'll respectfully disagree. I've done plenty of research and investigating, and I find that word to be a very accurate way to depict someone's position on the matter.
Someone could very well state that a person who claims agnostic has lost its meaning and that it is an excuse for people who haven't done the necessary work to investigate the evidence has a cognitive distortion known as polarized thinking.
Someone very well could.
The word agnostic is just a truism that tells us nothing.
I've noticed too that there has been a lot of recent bantering on the god question, which in all practicality is
still beneficial for some to learn and intellectual grow from.
Coming from being a stout JWs directly to atheism is a big conscientious leap for many to try to perceive and embrace.
Seems like I was in that position myself at one time.
i'm was glad there were some atheists around when i first started to put the puzzles together. otherwise i might have ended up a born again christian or some other JW-like cult, since that's what i was used to. it took me a while, well over a year to label myself an atheist. in the meantime i was fine calling myself an agnostic.
It just seems odd having a label that to most people just means "I haven't decided".
It has lost its original meaning...
Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in the Spring of 1869...[he] wrote in "Agnosticism" published in The Nineteenth Century in February 1889 that he invented it as a label for himself at the Metaphysical Society, although he didn't say when. He also said, "It [agnostic] came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic' of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant...."
The word agnostic is just a truism that tells us nothing.
It tells the opinion, belief, thought of a person respecting god/gods/higher being(s) or entity/entities. How much research, investigation, and study went into that position, is a different matter.
It tells the opinion, belief, thought of a person respecting god/gods/higher being(s) or entity/entities
It is another way of saying "I don't know".
No label required.
