Dear Santa, I know I am living in your homeland now(one of your neigbours) but I want to be in the sun for xmas, an I know I will or I'll split on you about Tinkerbell
Agnostic thought, in the form of skepticism, emerged as a formal philosophical position in ancient Greece. Its proponents included Protagoras, Pyrrho, and Carneades. Such thinkers rejected the idea that certainty was possible.
Huxley used the term 'agnostic' to describe his own views on theology, a term whose use has continued to the present day,
What is an Agnostic Atheist? This question has a few different answers that agree in concept but vary in the details. To more easily understand this particular strand of atheism, let’s break the term down into its separate words.
First, an atheist is one who does not believe in God. Additionally, the atheist may or may not actually deny the existence of God. Second, agnosticism has two main streams. The “soft” agnostic does not know whether or not there is a God. The “hard” agnostic says one cannot know about the existence of God. Some people term this hard agnosticism as “agnostic atheism.” These definitions of agnosticism leave open the possibility of an agnostic also being an atheist, a theist, or one who endorses neither position.
There are several specific beliefs that are within the defined limits of agnostic atheism. An agnostic atheist may be described as a person who does not believe in God or gods and who holds one or more of the following to be true:
* The existence or nonexistence of deities is not known or is unknowable. * The knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of deities is unimportant. * The claim to knowledge of existence or nonexistence of deities is best avoided.
The agnostic atheist, therefore, combines elements of not knowing the existence of God with the unbelief in God.
Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not have belief in the existence of any deity, and agnostic because they do not claim to know that a deity does not exist. The agnostic atheist may be contrasted with the agnostic theist, who does believe that one or more deities exist but does not claim to have knowledge of such.
Would love to visit Oz, it's one of the few places I haven't been, just think, if my great great grandfather had stolen a loaf of bread in UK, I would be in the sun now and surfin.
I love browsing around second hand stores and have found some really good buys. Got a scanner for one euro, they could't make it work, I looked up the drivers on the net and it works perfectly, made my day. Dunno how that fits in with your control hypotheses though.
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RE: A New Start!!!!
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of out lives.