What is your definition of atheism?

[Twain Shakespeare]

I had noticed Ellie seemed to have looked in for about a week, then vanished. Maybe synchronicity will bring her back.

Craig, I woiuldn't consider you an atheist in any except the most narrow defintion of the word, and even then your atheism is so soft it would be more in the eye of the beholder than in your own philosophy. I would call you agnostic, using the word as an adjective. Your philosophy seems to correspond in some ways with "soft pantheism" and "hard Jungianism". Your description of the blinders hard atheism imposes fit well with my observations.

Less bored now. Thanx for all the responses.

[Arouet]

And just to be a little more pedantic in a definition thread - remember that agonsticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism is about knowledge. A(theism) is about belief. So you have agnostic atheists and agnostic theists.

[Twain Shakespeare]

[Craig Browning]

[Arouet]

[Craig Browning]

There were many types of Gnostic fellowships not just Christian and even in that vein, not all were of "like mind" (some are even questionable when it comes to if or not they even existed, given how certain facets in the orthodoxy felt it perfectly fine to write bogus scripture or edit existing materials so as to make them damnable).

[Arouet]

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[Twain Shakespeare]

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[Twain Shakespeare]

Unless it part of the cult again, as witness the cults I mentioned above.

I am in the embarassing position tho, of having to change me religion from "radical agnosticism" ie (stong and positivist agnosticism ) or the certainty that knowlege is impssible, to weak agnosticism or, I'll admit, experiential gnosticism

[astrologerrohan]

Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity, which implies that nothing exists but natural phenomena (matter), that thought is a property or function of matter, and that death irreversibly and totally terminates individual organic units. This definition means that there are no forces, phenomena, or entities which exist outside of or apart from physical nature, or which transcend nature, or are “super” natural, nor can there be. Humankind is on its own.
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[Arouet]