On 12 July 2014 07:58, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Liz, you missed my words about 'atheist' and 'agnostic'. Fighting AGAINST > something reqires SOME concept of the enemy, so an atheist 'requires' SOME > concept of 'a' (any) god as a target. >
Yes, I agree. Or at the very least they have a definite idea of what is the correct approach to understanding reality, and have decided that any contradiction to it isn't allowed. Sorry if I missed your (or anyone's) posts, there are some very long posts on this forum and I don't have that much time so I often miss things (although I would love not to!) > - MY - agnostic, however, does not find any such 'target' reasonble so the > totality has to be built on some different basis. Who knows on what kind > of? > I call it an infinite complexity, not on arithmetical basis as Bruno > advised, since arithmetic ways of thinking are HUMAN logic and the totality > is much much wider than what such restrictive boundaries would allow. > Ah, now that depends on whether humans are capable of discovering universal truths. (Do you think aliens with advanced technology would disagree that 17 is a prime number, however they chose to express that fact?) > Since 'a' god does not fit into my agnosticism, no bible could have been > written by it. Scripture etc. is a nice remnant of times when people had > too much time on their hand and a fantasy-world with very few restrictive > items. > Then power usurped the general belief of the public and exploited it. We > are still living within such. > Yes, again I agree. > > Please add to every one of my sentences in ( - ) "I dunno". > I do that with everyone, including myself. It's perhaps the intellectual equivalent of imagining your audience naked. -- 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.
