On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:06 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Surely Atheist means 100% sure, so 99.999999999....% is still agnostic >
The existence or nonexistence of God is just one fact about the world, there are lots more, so I guess we need to invent hairsplitting distinctions for them all. We need to invent 2 new words concerning your level of disbelief that this is Thursday, one if you're 100% certain that this is not Thursday (Aththursdayist) and another word (Agthursdayic) if you're only 99.999999999% certain it's not Thursday. Or maybe we don't need different words for things that are that ridiculously similar. The real reason people call themselves agnostic and not atheist has nothing to do with ideas, it's because of a sound, they like to make the "God" noise with their mouth. And by the way, mathematically 99.99999999999999999999999999.... is exactly equal to 100. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
