Hi!

[agnostic]

Hello everyone!
I'm Felix the agnostic.

You seem like a fun crowd. This is gonna be fun

[Angela]

What are you agnostic about? What's going on for you right now that you identify yourself that way?

I hope you have two tons of fun here.

angela

[Shamou]

Hello and welcome aboard Felix the agnostic...

It is nice to be an agnostic... you call yell out "god" when you're having sex but don't have to bother at other times...

But, seriously, hope you like it here and that we get to share, learn and grow together...

Looking forward to reading your posts...

.

[agnostic]

Originally Posted by Angela

What are you agnostic about? What's going on for you right now that you identify yourself that way?

Well, I try to be agnostic about everything. Take every theory only tentatively. Staying flexible. This gives me the greatest amount of freedom and being an agnostic is the philosophical position that makes the most sense to me ever since I read the sentence "The map is not the territory". I've tried several belief systems, but they were all too limited for me.

Originally Posted by Shamou

It is nice to be an agnostic... you call yell out "god" when you're having sex but don't have to bother at other times...

so true.

Robert Anton Wilson once said jokingly that he turned from atheist to agnostic because he didn't have something to shout during sex. "Random chance, random chance, random chance!" just doesn't have that ring to it.

[razzy]

Hi

This is my first time to this sight. Agnostic caught my eye. For some reason I feel it necessary to tell you about a book I came accross jsut recently called 'the God Delusion"...I am not saying you are dulisional, as I said I jsut felt it necessary to mention it. I feel stronly that you may enjoy it!
Cheers

[agnostic]

Thanks! However, I've already read it. Agnosticism still is the stronger position, I think. Dawkins makes strong points against religion, it's very well thought ought. But agnosticism not only applies to the idea of god, but also to Dawkins' darwinian alternative. Agnosticism just means taking no position as the ultimate truth. It doesn't mean not being tilted in one direction or the other if the current amount of data suggests it, it means that you are willing to change once the tide of the evidence turns against your preconceived notions.
I'm currently reading "The Conscious Universe" by Dean Radin for example.
Always willing to attack my own belief system (B.S. for short ) is the eternal credo of the true agnostic.
It's the middle path between the madness of absolute yes and no.
As Bucky Fuller once said: "Universe is non-simultaneously apprehended". This means in English: Every human being has only perceived a tiny part of the universe (and never will perceive more), so not a single one of us will ever understand it in its entirety. All we can make are good (or bad) guesses based on the information we know. The hardest part is not to accept some guesses as true (this happens automatically), but to adapt your guesses to new information as old models become obsolete when they stop to fit new data. The ability to replace them then is the real test of your faculty of reason. And we all fail at it to some degree. I just try to do it less often by remaining agnostic.