Jaden wrote:
Sasheron wrote:
Yes, I am Agnostic towards the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Fairies In The Bottom of The Garden and that dude who always tries to save his lucky charms. Like Isaac Asimov and many others, I'm an intellectual Agnostic and intuitive Atheist.
Atheism maybe isn't as absolute as you think it is, and I would suggest that perhaps you're qualifiable.
Atheism doesn't include my position. I maintain that we simply can't know anything about the nature of any non-physical object, and can't be certain that any physical phenomenon is caused by something non-physical or an elaborate set of accidents. I love my box analogy, and I'll use it for now because my brain has melted from exhaustion and insomnia.
The non-physical is like a big, mysterious, impenetrable box. The contents of the box may or may not affect the outside somehow.
The Atheist will say - "there is nothing in the box! We have explained almost everything that happens outside of the box, and so far the evidence points that the box is not affecting anything, hence there is nothing in the box! The probability that the contents of the box affects anything outside it is negligible. FUCK YOU NONEXISTENT BOX CONTENTS!"
The Theist will say - "there is something in the box! There are still unexplained things going on, and it must be the box doing them! HAIL BOX CONTENTS!"
I will say - "I can't see inside the box, there might be something there, even if it isn't affecting the outside. There is no way for me to penetrate the box, and no other way for me to ascertain it's contents. As far as I can determine, me being unaware of the box contents isn't affecting my life negatively, and as such I don't care for the box. For tidiness, I will leave the box contents or lack thereof out of consideration in my thinking."
I'm tolerant as long as others don't try to shove their opinions down my throat. In my experience, my Atheist friends and acquaintances always took the opportunity to ridicule my Theist friends. I don't really care, I sit back and listen.