Does anybody else think that agnostics need to **** or get off the pot?

Question

They remind me of my mother. She can't make up her friggin' mind to save her life.

Answer 1

Wow as an agnostic who has only heard that at least a couple of hundred times I have to tell you...you did it for me.
Yep if you listen close the horns are blaring and balloons are coming down (from heaven right) and its party time. Because you my dear are the 1001 person to say this and gosh darn it, it worked. I'm gonna commit to something tomorrow I just feel it comin' on!!
Thank you so much for your words of wisdom.

Answer 2

So there's a "fence", eh? You sound like one of those people who can't handle living with uncertainty. Just like the fundies.

The downside of rabid atheism is the inability to admit that one hasn't figured absolutely everything out already (as well as a pathological need to convince everyone else to think the same way). I firmly reject the foolish, petty notion of God-as-advertised. He's simply too ridiculous, too childishly human to manage every aspect of the cosmos.

But I also sense the power of faith in general, the inspirational energy that arises from no identifiable source to change the human world for the better. I can still marvel that the universe can be so vast that we aren't even capable of sensing its limits, yet so intricate that we can only theorize uncertainly about its smallest components, or how matter relates to energy, or just how diverse or unified its components are. This doesn't suggest that there's some consciousness behind it all, but the sheer multitude of layers of "reality" seem to point to the possiblity that some day we may find a boundary between the physical universe and modes of existence that some would now refer to as "spiritual". The horizon of comprehension recedes at the same speed as our approach.

What I may believe about the workings of my world will never be as important as continuing to find out how it really works. I am capable of being fooled for a while. We all need a break from the endless search for truth. But sooner or later I must saddle up my doubts and look a little deeper into the mysteries, question the accepted wisdom, whatever the source, and start moving again.

Rigid atheism blocks communication, and can even paralyze the curiosity necessary for personal growth. However deluded their mythos, many people express a surprising amount of human insight through their peculiar idiom. Truth doesn't all have to be spoken in the same mental language.

It is a simple evolutionary imperative to hoard resources and chase away competitors, but humans have developed the intellectual capacity to see how inefficient and counterproductive that attitude is. Many honest religions espouse radical, altruistic positions, only in different words than a sociologist would use. Even if their motivations are fantasy, the results are what matter. And maybe those crazy motivations are merely allegorical, a symbolic statement of what is, not technically true but true enough. Some need a colorful reason for their benevolence. Others don't.

Other considerations aside, I prefer agnosticism because it permits me to converse with and understand more people than any of the other options.

Answer 3

I am an agnostic. I have made up my mind. I do not know the answer to the question as to whether there is or is not any sort of deity or deities. I am totally postitive that I do not have this information.

For example, do you know the exact number of people who were on planet Earth the second you were born? No? Are you sure you DO NOT KNOW?

Get it?

Answer 4

Agnostics take an honest stance on God.

How did you decide which side of the fence to be on?

What proof do you have?

And quit thinking about your mother.

You're not responsible for the programming you picked up as a child. But as an adult, you're 100% responsible for fixing it.

Answer 5

Actually, agnostics are the most open minded of them all. Atheists refuse to even think about the possibility of a god, and religions refuse to look at scientific facts. This in general of course.

Answer 6

No :) I think saying "I don't know" is probably the wisest and most open-minded stance to take.

edit: LOL, ok, I know what you mean.. my mother is agnostic, but, she's not even sure about being agnostic... :)

Answer 7

Mind your own friggin' business. What d'you care?

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Answer 8

Agnostics are pretty much screwed if there is a god or not. If there is, they don't believe in it. If there isn't, they will just stop living. Sounds lose-lose to me!

Answer 9

No, they are the only ones that don't make claims to know something they don't know. Everyone else is just claiming to know something they have no idea of.

No one really knows what is out there, they just pretend they do.

Answer 10

not nessicerily, they can choose to live their life with a "i'll believe it when i see it" policy, frankly i think its better that way, then you dont get your hopes up.