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#221 Allathar

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Posted 17 April 2010 - 05:01 PM

I thought it was the following:

Nihilism - there is nothing out there, life doesn't have a meaning
Agnosticism - the believe or non-believe in a god, rather than 'knowing' a god exists. The more rational religious (or atheist) folks, who say they don't know a god exists, but still believe in it, and also acknowledge that they might be wrong.
Apatheism - form of agnosticism, you can't prove that a god does or doesn't exist, but doesn't really care either, since it has no direct influence in life.
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 05:38 PM

No, it considers the idea of proof or non-proof of a deity utterly irrelevant. It rejects bothering with it in any way.

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#223 Pasidon

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Posted 17 April 2010 - 09:15 PM

Hmm... didn't know that. Always thought it was the other way around, in a way. Good info, Mati but where is this Wikipedia page that talks about it? Won't seem to bother to show up for me.

#224 Mathijs

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Posted 18 April 2010 - 12:53 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism

I typed in ''apatheism'' at the search box. Don't know what you did.

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Posted 18 April 2010 - 01:40 AM

There it is... same thing I did, except it brought up articles containing the word apatheism instead of the article itself.

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Posted 18 April 2010 - 06:39 PM

Whilst reading Hibberd's biography of Wilfred Owen to-day, I came across an extract from one of his earlier poems:

Unto what pinnacles of desperate heights
Do good men climb to seize their good! ...
And their sole mission is to drag, entice
And push mankind to those same cloudy crags
Where they first breathed the madness-giving air
That made them feel as angles, that are less than men.


A nicer argument for apatheism, if ever I saw one.




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