On 07/10/2013 11:18 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > I use atheists in the (Google) sense of B~g. ~Bg is agnosticism (in > the mundane common sense). > > Some atheists seem to oscillate between the two definitions, > opportunistically.
The issue is that both of those require some specific 'g' to be claimed, before either of them may apply. But first 'g' has to be well-defined, coherent, and logically possible, before either of the above can even make sense. My experience is that few religious claims make it past this hurdle; there is therefore not really anything to believe or not believe in. So we're left with the state of our belief system unchanged, and optimization of our finite resources means we just don't think about these sorts of things. I suppose that's neither 'atheism' or 'agnosticism'. Johnathan Corgan -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
