Agnostics
I shouldn't hate agnostics, I really shouldn't. As an atheist we are, after all, more in synch with each other's positions than we are with that of theists. Neither of us actively worship deities and we all live our lives without giving the slightest thought to the viewpoint that our actions are going to be judged when we die and our souls confined to hell. We both have our reasons for not actively worshipping a deity; an atheist can tell you their reasons and the agnostic will sometimes give the same the reasons or the philosophical position that it's all essentially unknowable.

So why do I hate them?

Because to a man (or woman) they're inevitably smug, self-satisfied cunts, and their agnosticism is invariably delivered from this self-appointed lofty position of smug faux-authority. Turns out, when you question them, they once heard some piece of postmodernist philosophical wank from some prick follower of Derrida or another gobbledigook peddling 60's revisitionist bullshit artist and it's lodged in their brain like some annoying song they haven't managed to dislodge for umpteen fucking years.

And now they're crawling out of the woodwork with their fashionable whinge that "atheists are just as bad as Christians waaaaaaah" shite that they get from Guardian op-ed pieces. And some of them claim they hate "fashionable hatreds". Oh the irony.

Yes I'm looking at you Vagabond you smug, self-loving "look at me, look at me - I really must respond on every fucking thread because my ego needs huge amounts of validation" useless waste of fucking space.

There. I feel better now.

Cheers
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 0:34, 8 replies)

alright Legless

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 0:39, closed)

I'm Good...


And not everyone who uses "cheers" as a sign-off is me. Especially not in this case as I actually like Vagabonds posts. Oh - and I don't use sock-puppets. They're only for *really* insecure people.......

cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 6:56, closed)

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
From Wikipedia:

Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable.

I would characterize it generally as not being bothered much by the question as I have more important things to worry about.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 3:07, closed)

You- I do not think it means what you think it means.


Me - "or the philosophical position that it's all essentially unknowable"

I put what you think it means in the initial post.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:29, closed)

In your defense:
It is a pointless point of view. They've realized that there is no sky fairy, but don't know that it's not necessary to disprove the concept (I love the giant tea pot argument) so they shrug around for a few years before becoming honest atheists.
(Smoked Oysters Yes, magick helmet! And I will give you a sample!, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 6:39, closed)

While you were typing that and being furious.
I was having a nice wank.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:06, closed)

Why am I not in the least bit surprised by this information?
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 20:06, closed)

Interesting as I too would say something along the lines of "I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there"
On Dawkin's 1-7 scale though (who said the above quote), I would be a 5 most likely. My biggest problem is with people allowing themselves to simply be told what to believe - be it a priest or Dawkins.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 0:39, closed)