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   Quantum (quantumaspect@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 21:31:55 JST Quantum

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   @Radical_EgoCom To me describing agnostic as "not sure", suggests that one is in doubt. That is not exactly it. It is more like not thinking about it at all. When you can't prove or disprove something someone comes up with, then it is not in your realm. An opinion either way would lead to falsehoods.

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     @QuantumAspect Well, Agnostic Atheist are those who, while admitting that there is no way of knowing for certain whether God exist or not, don't believe in God due to the lack of evidence in favor of God existing. Basically, it's the position that they won't believe in something until there is evidence for it's existence.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 21:31:54 JST Brendan Jones

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     @Radical_EgoCom @QuantumAspect This is a semantic quibble but I like to describe as an atheist agnostic (and not vice versa). As in, I’m an agnostic who, based on current evidence of gods, is atheist. Being an agnostic atheist doesn’t feel like a logical descriptor for me to use (though I’m hardly going to hound anyone who does identify that way).

     I definitely agree with the original point that describing agnostic as ‘not sure’ isn’t right.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 21:33:07 JST Brendan Jones

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     @Radical_EgoCom @QuantumAspect So I voted agnostic, but with an objection to the description :)