Hello, think I'll stick around.
Posted on: December 30, 2009 - 2:31am
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Hello, think I'll stick around.
Hello athiest activists and determined theist debaters.
Hm. Found the site by accident, but it is well put together and entertaining. I'm neither a theist, nor am I an atheist. I call myself a non-absolutist. Happiest when sitting on the fence (the view is so much better). However, there are couple things I have a solid opinion on.
I detest tradition for it's own sake.
I truely believe magical thinking is the precursor to a dark age.
No progress is possible for humanity without free - I mean really freeeee speech.
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Your impressive yet impossible fence-straddle cannot be long maintained and I look forward to your atheistic announcement in the near future. Your 3 solid opinions are excellent and I'm sure they will bring you (by the narrow winding path - lol), to your rightful destination...
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Perhaps. And then I'll need a belaclava just like yours.
be true....
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Welcome!
Fair warning: If you believe in a god, you're a theist (or deist/pantheist/etc). If you don't, you're an atheist. Since you're fence sitting, like most of us waiting for proof of a god(s), you are an agnostic atheist.
Someone was going to say it eventually. Might as well be me.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Oh fuck I guess I'll complete the trifecta of warnings...
Am I Agnostic or Atheist?
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Oh dear. I should have consulted my dictionary. Is there anything left in the world to define?
So would someone with a narcissistic personality disorder, who believes themselves to have supernatural abilities, but not believe in a God, be a gnostic atheist?
Thanks for the welcome and the warnings.
I'll save my arguments for the boards.
Hi there! I like how you mentioned the determined theist debaters.
I wish I were good at debating things...
Anyway I look forward to hearing your arguments on the boards!
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
Can't say I suffer from NPD (though I might -- I am from Alaska, after all, and everyone knows everyone from Alaska is just like Sarah Palin). I am a gnostic atheist, though. I am quite sure the logical arguments against a deity makes god not only unlikely, but impossible. So, yes, there are gnostic atheists. However, we tend to be very polite about it.
Care for a truffle?
Oh, and -- welcome! I hope you stick around.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
Thanks all, for the welcome.
Bold Nigel - help me out, my googling efforts are confusing me. if gnosticism is a belief that one can obtain special knowledge of a spiritual nature, does this mean a gnostic atheist believes in the supernatural, but not in a divine creator? (Sounds like a Buddhist).