[Dragaera] agnosticism (no flame) (was, long ago: (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons])

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Philip Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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>> I'm a consistent agnostic: I don't know, and I don't think anyone else
>> does either.
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> This reasonable position is also known as giving up - it obliges you to
> not disbelieve in an afterlife ruled by the malevolent Barney, in the
> eternal conflict between Mr. Mxyztplk and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
> and in Devera's active participation on this list.
>   
Kinda sorta, but not absolutely.  I find no cause to believe in any kind 
of afterlife at all.  I certainly can't *prove* there is none, but there 
is no evidence *for* the proposition.  So it sits in the same limbo as 
infinitely many other propositions with no evidence; and occupies no 
particularly preferred place in that limbo.  I don't see that as faith, 
but as rational pruning of the tree.

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