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Emlyn wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Yep, concentrating on the positive is a good idea IMO.
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<pre wrap="">(1) Atheist meaning I don't reject the belief in God
and/or/although, I don't abide by the exact points
of the definitions given by religion.
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This is not atheism! This is some kind of unspecified mysticism.
Atheism is the "disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or
gods" (got that from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheism">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheism</a>,
which also lists some rather irritating definitions like "the doctrine
or belief that there is no God", which I know a lot of atheists would
disagree with).
Emlyn
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I think Anna, like many of us, is not fully polarized on the God concept.
Some may have a haunting "simulus" (Minsky's term) built up in the mind
even though we've rejected the self contradictory concept we were handed.
My father, at the time he pointed out the contradictions, also mentioned
that religion has kept a lot of people from being bad. Is the unknowable
really worth denying? Realistically, God, the delusion, has existed for
a long time. I prefer to handle that fact as gracefully as possible, but
I'm not above kicking dogma and hypocrisy in the butt. This <a
href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GOD.html">Principia Cybernetica page</a>
offers an interesting disscussion of the (dis)belief in God spectrum. Gently,
Thomas<br>
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