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[teh chlorine tablets of doom]

Then how do you explain fluctuations in population? Our populace is doing nothing but rising, how do you account for the extra babies that come when nobody is doin any dieing?

I personally believe in reincarnation, as supposed to anything else . . . but I heard a theory that we go through a cycle where we become every creature on the planet and the process takes about three thousand years before you end up back where you started. And last in the cycle is humans.

So I guess a lot of amoebas wanted to become people.

Or something.


I guess.

[smallyelp]

i'm all for the chuck norris thing, i think it's the most plausible. does his name have two s's? i think chuck norrissss comes down from heaven and he's all invisible and he round houses you and that's how you die. doesn't matter what you do. you're infront of a truck and it's going to hit you and hte moment it does he's really there and he round houses you and your soul explodes and you go off to an alien world and get reborn there, where there is no such thing as a chuck norriss god yet. of course one day, thousands of years in the future, chuck norris missionaries will come there and then it'll start all over again. amen.

[poisoned_frog]

...
You put a lot of thought into that, didn't you?


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Edited by poisoned_frog, 21 June 2006 - 10:25 AM.

[Unwilling]

Honestly, I Think that Funky Cold Adina has a point.. but does that make some of us containing more soul than others? Thats too much thinking!!

AH my head hurts...

[twoshells]

I think so. Agnostics are defined as basically not believing anything due to lack of evidence. Being indifferent is basically the same thing, I choose not to worry about it because there is no way of knowing. In my mind, the whole having faith thing strikes me as odd, something is either fact or fiction, period. No religion is currently fact, so they only fit in one other category.

not believing in anything is athism. agnosticism is believing in something, but you just don't know what.

[poisoned_frog]

It is as was said.

[teh chlorine tablets of doom]

2 entries found for agnostic.
ag·nos·tic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (g-nstk)
n.

One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.

adj.
Relating to or being an agnostic.
Doubtful or noncommittal: “Though I am agnostic on what terms to use, I have no doubt that human infants come with an enormous ‘acquisitiveness’ for discovering patterns” (William H. Calvin).


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ag·nosti·cal·ly adv.
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning “without, not,” as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnsis, “knowledge,” which was used by early Christian writers to mean “higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things” hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as “Gnostics” a group of his fellow intellectuals“ists,” as he called themwho had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a “man without a rag of a label to cover himself with,” Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.







2 entries found for atheist.
a·the·ist ( P ) Pronunciation Key (th-st)
n.
One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.

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atheist

adj : related to or characterized by or given to atheism; "atheist leanings" [syn: atheistic, atheistical] n : someone who denies the existence of god




(So yeah. Agnostics aren't anything. They are so undecided that they don't even call themselves atheist.)

[peanut]

Heard the one about the agonistic, dyslecsix (spelling??? dude why would they make that word so hard to spell)


Lets start again so we can stay with the gist of the joke huh?



Heard the one about the agonistic, dyslecsix insomniac ?
He stayed awake at night, wandering if there was a dog!
Ba-da-boom, ching
Yea.

[lik3wh0a]

hahahaha

[CaptainHenreh]

I came in here to see if I'd posted that "Agnosticism is a philosophical copout" yet.

I hadn't, so here it is:

Agnosticism is a philosophical copout.

[Jason]

Don't be hating just cause you aren't okay with not making a definitive black/white answer

[CaptainHenreh]

Don't be hating just cause you aren't okay with not making a definitive black/white answer

It's a lazy copout.

[The One]

I tend to think that agnotisiticism is hard to define, and since it is its like calling yourself a moderate in the world of politics.

Do such things really exist?

[hungarianhorntail]

agnostic = "i'm not sure/don't know"
maybe not you, lougan, but most people have things they're not sure about or don't know.
i'd say that means such a thing exists.

there's also something to be said for the person who just doesnt have any internal motivation to care about a particular thing either way.

[The One]

...?

Didn't I just say I'm not sure agnostics exist?

Wouldn't that make me agnositicly agnostic?

[peanut]

What if someone isn't sure they belive you exist?

Then what??

Omg (if there is one?)

[The One]

What if someone isn't sure they belive you exist?

Then what??

Omg (if there is one?)

Then you just fall in to the existentialism trap of despair.

[Orangejuice]

Well, now that's got me thinking.
Does Lougan really exist?

[hungarianhorntail]

ive seen him..he does..