The strict agnostic position 'we do not know' and 'we cannot know'.
Ah, but i said "don't know exactly," which is different, and why i gave th example of th pagan & th tree. Guess it depends on what ya mean by "know". Perhaps fuzzier labels like "intuition" or "feeling" are needed here. But there'r things ppl find very meaningful, they know somethin deep down in their bones, but can't quite put their finger on it, so they dream up proxies. To me, existence itself springs from faith. I don't identify as atheist, agnostic etc etc, nothing quite fits. Let's just say i'm a member of the Unchurch of Quantum Agnosticism: god both exists and does not exist. We mock those who attempt to collapse the divine wave function, and foolishly rely on our own whims.
It also brought consistency in legal codes and a treatment of the universe as a single entity to be known.
Both of which are anathema to me. In th beginning was th word, and th word was "bored". Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. So god had a littl multiple personality disorder to amuse itself, and lo! here we are! Well, i don't believe that. I don't believe th universe was ever just one thing, and that's coming from a lover of physics! Infinite in all directions - that's my faith. Paths may merge, yes, but they also diverge just as often.
What part do you find baffling?
Seems to'v been sorted out further down th thread.
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Date: 2007-02-02 05:53 pm (UTC)Ah, but i said "don't know exactly," which is different,
and why i gave th example of th pagan & th tree.
Guess it depends on what ya mean by "know".
Perhaps fuzzier labels like "intuition" or "feeling" are needed here.
But there'r things ppl find very meaningful,
they know somethin deep down in their bones,
but can't quite put their finger on it,
so they dream up proxies.
To me, existence itself springs from faith.
I don't identify as atheist, agnostic etc etc, nothing quite fits.
Let's just say i'm a member of the Unchurch of Quantum Agnosticism:
god both exists and does not exist.
We mock those who attempt to collapse the divine wave function,
and foolishly rely on our own whims.
It also brought consistency in legal codes and a treatment of the universe as a single entity to be known.
Both of which are anathema to me.
In th beginning was th word,
and th word was "bored". Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored.
So god had a littl multiple personality disorder to amuse itself,
and lo! here we are!
Well, i don't believe that.
I don't believe th universe was ever just one thing,
and that's coming from a lover of physics!
Infinite in all directions - that's my faith.
Paths may merge, yes,
but they also diverge just as often.
What part do you find baffling?
Seems to'v been sorted out further down th thread.