On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:06:32 -0500, Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:19:55PM -0600, Grant Robinson wrote: > > I was mainly playing around, as most of the definitions of agnostic > > concerns whether God exists, but in common usage means someone who > > doesn't take sides (or believe in) organized religion. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism > > To be fair to the agnostics, it is a very honest and humble worldview. > It is one that is very difficult to accept (that is, the possibility > that life may have no more meaning than a rock or a lake has meaning - > it just is). It is not fun to entertain the possibility that you are > nothing more than a few billion cells that metabolize and go about > reproducing, and your consciousness or ego did not exist before your > body did, and it will disappear again when your body decays.
On the contrary, agnostics are agnostic _because_ it's the easiest explanation for them to accept. They find it remarkably fun to entertain the idea that they have no accountability to a supreme being. Why else would they believe it? If they say that they're some kind of martyr for "accepting the cold hard truth" it's a load of bull. All of the most famous anti-christs in scripture were believers who were deceived. On a related note, I don't believe in atheists. I've met several who claimed they were but not one who wasn't really just upset about something (usually an injustice of some kind). > So then each individual must come to the point where he must decide if > there really is a Holy Ghost that prompts and inspires, or if it is a > self-induced feeling or emotion created by the mind in an attempt to > avoid having to accept its own mortality. One major problem is that it's both. I met many a missionary in New York who felt the "spirit" while doing things they clearly should not be doing. I imagine they really thought they did. My guess is about half the time people feel the spirit it's really just adrenaline. (Not half the time for all people, nor half the people all the time, but some mix where many people mostly feel the spirit and many others mostly feel adrenaline or some other hormone). ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
