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Originally Posted by Exmo  I am now considering myself an Agnostic Theist, in the fact that I realize that nobody can claim to have the perfect knowledge and truth of God, nobody truly can understand all the complexities that life and eternity have to offer, while something inside me can't eschew the idea of a Supreme Being altogether yet. |
Neither can I. That's precisely why I'm an agnostic as opposed to an atheist. I've posted myself blue in the face with regard to my contention that there is no such thing as an agnostic theist. It's a contradiction in terms in my opinion.
But I've come to accept such an position as legitimate, but only to the extent that anyone who holds it acknowledges that it's a propositional vs. a final position.
I have to admit to wondering how the universe around us came to be without some kind of "intelligent design". My problem is that, aside from that acknowledgement, I've found nothing substantive to support the concept of an intelligent designer.
Just be aware that, at the moment before your death, you will by definition have adopted a final position on the question based, hopefully, on the empirical or second-hand knowledge you've been able to amass to that point.
After having grappled with this question for many years, not that having done so necessarily means anything other than that I may have missed "the answer" altogether, I don't expect it to be resolved in the course of my lifetime.
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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll 
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