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12-10-2006, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by LadyLuck  , What really bothers me is the way they (particularly christians) look at me if i happen to mention that i'm agnostic,... it's like i can accept THEM for who they are, why can't they accept ME? How do you handle these kinds of situations? :confused1: |
Agnostic is another name for a Jesus-rejecter.
So if peoples eyebrows raise its simply because they're surprised why you've rejected a kool, kind, warm-hearted loving dood like Jesus.. | 
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12-10-2006, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Vfr Don't know, am agnostic about this subject.
RE: Meaning of life? I once heard a lecture by Alan Watts where he quoted Anton Van Leeuwenhoek ( The father of the microscope) regarding this subject as; "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced | Thanks V...You write very intelligently and I appreciate your sharing... kinda why I joined this forum...don't believe, if god exists, that she is a 'destination' at all... more of a ultimate reality/unity existence...
A little OT of the original question... I can't fathom how much time it would require, since it seems to me that there are as many different concepts of god as humans on earth, so first would have to come to some sort of universal consensus on all the terminology  | |
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12-10-2006, 11:03 AM
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Jesus told us the whole purpose of human existence in one short sentence..
"The work God requires is to believe in the one he has sent" (John 6:28 )
Regard it as a test not to be flunked ;) | |
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12-10-2006, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by MickinEngland Agnostic is another name for a Jesus-rejecter.
So if peoples eyebrows raise its simply because they're surprised why you've rejected a kool, kind, warm-hearted loving dood like Jesus.. | That's exactly what i mean. Some christians look at agnostics as 'jesus-rejectors', instead of people with different views on life. The fact remains that some christians hate the fact that everyone isn't exactly like them. I think it's utterly insensitive to judge someone because they are different from you. Christians have no reason to raise their eyebrows at me, I do not at them. We are different, and nothing's wrong with that. It bothers me that some christians make this difference important, instead of accepting people for who they are.
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12-16-2006, 08:55 PM
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No. I don't think the answers can ever truly be found. Because everyone would be looking to either prove what they already believe (believers and non-believers) while the true agnostics wouldn't know what they were looking to prove. And when you found this "proof" the other side wouldn't believe it anyway. Besides, I think the "Truth" is all relative to each person.
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12-16-2006, 09:08 PM
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Said like a true agnostic. I, myself is on the border line between agnostic and atheist. With current science we can pretty much prove anything, given 200 more years to develop. So why not prove or disprove God?
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12-16-2006, 11:16 PM
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To think that the studies of man can one day prove or disprove the existence of something as expansive and ambiguous as a possibly divine creator is, in my opinion, a wasted hope.
The belief in a God comes with a belief in a sense of spirituality; the very nature of which is indescribable and undetectable.
You could one day prove that the Big Bang Theory is, in fact, exactly how everything was created and there will be camps, possibly myself included, that will belief that God's the one who lit the fuse. | |
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12-16-2006, 11:17 PM
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But we, and and a few other generations won't know, now will we?
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12-16-2006, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by THEWAULRUS But we, and and a few other generations won't know, now will we? | Sad but true.  I have such little faith in humanity as it is. I think there may be a race between humanity imploding upon itself and humanity proving/disproving God. I'll bet on the implosion, thank you.  | |
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12-17-2006, 12:13 AM
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Humans have an almost to nothing chance of living through this one..
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