Being Agnostic

[Raining_Roses]

At the risk of poorly quoting Monty Python for a second time in one evening...

There's nothing an agnostic can't achieve, so long as they don't know whether they believe in anything or not

I, too, am at risk of poorly quoting someone, more specifically another chatter, lofc (etc).....

Okay

 

[Chip_TheViking]

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[Kev45]

 

[Moriarty]

I'm sure I've read somewhere that cats have scent glands located on their cheeks - these glands produce a pheromone that cats use to mark their territory and communicate with other cats, when a cat rubs its face against objects or people, it is depositing its scent from these glands this behavior is known as "scent marking" and is a common way for cats to communicate and establish their presence in their environment...

a cat biting you does not necessarily mean it wants to eat you lol cats may bite for various reasons such as feeling threatened, overstimulated, in pain, or maybe it's trying to communicate it has a problem like a bad tooth, more than likely it's a sign of affection for you by just marking you as being in it's clowder. personally I prefer dogs.

(i quoted the wrong person earlier oop) lol

I, too, am at risk of poorly quoting someone, more specifically another chatter, lofc (etc).....

Okay

Agnostics believe that anything is possible because we know very little about what reality really is..

As for cats, now I have to find it..

Got it..

Why Your Cat Thinks You're a Huge, Unpredictable Ape

Is a really funny article on wired.com.
It's a safe, although politically questionable link lol.

 

[Chip_TheViking]

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[Moriarty]

are you certain about that ?

They must as they don't "Know" anything is true.

 

[tequila_sunrise]

There is every possibility that cats are really gods or aliens sent to observe us and report back. After years of being enslaved by these animals, I hold that possibility as much as the rest of them. After all, there was a reason the Egyptians worshiped them and then there's that freaky little thing they do- the imitation of a baby crying to attract human sympathy and attention. We, as humans, are neurologically wired to pay them attention.
All hail Fluffy!
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no thier just cunts and scratch you death and purr no mystery end of

 

[ladymuck]

Agnostics are independant people who do not need to believe 'Daddy God' is taking care of them. When we are small children, mummy and daddy are responsible for everything that happens. Ever had a sick child say, 'Make the pain go away, mummy' ? When we become adults, many still have that need to feel that someone is in control and is looking after us. Hence 'God' exists, and the church is in control. Or it used to be...now we are free to decide for ourselves.

 

[Moriarty]

Agnostics are independant people who do not need to believe 'Daddy God' is taking care of them. When we are small children, mummy and daddy are responsible for everything that happens. Ever had a sick child say, 'Make the pain go away, mummy' ? When we become adults, many still have that need to feel that someone is in control and is looking after us. Hence 'God' exists, and the church is in control. Or it used to be...now we are free to decide for ourselves.

I do not need a Daddy god, I just don't know if such an entity exists..
I am agnostic, I cannot know until it is proven either way to me.

To say you do or do not need it depends on what one believes in faith.
Do you believe is your wanting for a child it will get better.
It may do, dependent on current scientific knowledge.
Or it may not if we cannot save it.
Is that man or god.
Is it we have not learned enough yet, or been given a miracle?
We have seen miracles in scientific knowledge, in surgery, medicine, the ability to save lives.
How much of that was driven my religious thinkers.

We cannot save everyone by science, just as we cannot save everyone by religion.
But perhaps there is a middle ground where there is just hope.

To most people either science or religion offer us a solution, but to me, neither are true, we are just simple folks in a complex world, I just have faith that in the end we can overcome, call that science or faith, I believe we have great thinkers, great minds, who can solve our ill's.

Who cares if they are religious, who cares if they are not.
Some of the greatest past scientists followed a faith, yet forwarded our understanding of the world.

Some of our greatest scientists, wh were also religious, have created a way to destroy all we have.

What do we follow but our own hearts that both are right and wrong.
Try to find a line that brings the most peace and understanding in the hope of joint knowledge gains which benefit us all.

Is that a goal for us to aim for instead of ..

Feck, Just want peace.

 

[ladymuck]

One's religious beliefs should be a personal thing. Sadly, though, in human society, we are often defined by our religion. Northern Ireland still has a strong religious identity. Their society is divided into Catholic and Protestant. In England too, because of immigration, religion is causing divisions in society.
There have been Jews in Britain for an extremely long time, many have been in politics and , yes, they have been persecuted. It's happening at the moment because they are being used as a target.
We put people into categories and judge them by their race and religion.

 

[A_Son_of_God]

Reviewing the most recent threads, I see an overwhelming increase of preachy god-bollox, so in an attempt to balance the scales a little, here’s what it means to be Agnostic (to me, anyway!):

> Not being so blinded by my ego to believe that my imaginary friend is bigger and better than your imaginary friend- because I don’t I have one.

> Open-minded as to the possibilities of what happens after death, so I don’t live in fear that anything I do or say will send me to hell.

> No one is watching me masturbate and judging me for doing it.

> I don’t feel the need to label everything ‘evil’, when I simply don’t like or agree with it.

> I never feel compelled to waste my time passing off man-written scripts as the word of a supernatural being instead of seeing them for what they actually are- words….written…by…a…human…!

> I never find myself wondering if I’m actually schizophrenic, believing in big men in the sky, imaginary voices and ‘messiahs’.

> Nor do I live with the destitute feeling of ‘This is all I bloody got!’, because maybe it isn’t! Maybe I’ll pop my clogs and live in paradise with 12 cats (this could be hell too, as I’d have to clean their trays); maybe I’ll come back and become the first humanoid to visit Saturn; maybe I’ll be unplugged; maybe I’ll step out of the shower and find out it was all a dream….who knows?! I don’t and that’s fine!

Please share what it means to you to not give a flying duck whether there’s a god or not.

It doesn't bother me if someone believes in God or not. That's their God-given free right to believe what they want. All decisions have consequences. Not knowing, and not being bothered to look, are two separate things.

That said, God knows we're not dimwits, and we have intelligence. But I do wonder...rhetoric question really...if you don't know and don't care, how can you state that things are imaginary?