List of agnostics

[Lemuel Underwing]

O' Mopery. This is neither the Place nor Time. I joined this list for
conversation on the Works of Pynchon not some incredibly boring argument
over the existence of God. Obviously I made a wrong turn somewhere, this
couldn't be the *Pynchon *List...

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK.  This is deserving of analysis.  More soon.
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>
>>
>> for example:
>> "The Ascent to Christ is a struggle thro' one heresy after another,
>> River-wise up-country into a proliferation of Sects and Sects branching
>> from Sects, unto Deism, faithless pretending to be holy, and beyond, - ever
>> away from the Sea, from the Harbor, from all that was serene and certain,
>> into an Interior unmapp'd, a Realm of Doubt. The Nights. The Storms and
>> Beasts. The Falls, the Rapids,...the America of the Soul."
>> -The Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, '*Undelivered Sermons'*
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> I can't be less interested in what most of your religious (or
>> nonreligious) beliefs are, how about we talk about the subject of faith in
>> the works of Pynchon, hey? That would be an interesting discussion and it
>> would allow us to expound upon our own beliefs (or non-beliefs) in relation
>> to his body of work?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>wrote:
>>
>> i continue to keep my spirituality personal, silent, and unexplained.
>>
>> please don't lump me in any of the aforementioned boxes.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well unless you folks talk with Tom I don't know where you've gathered
>> that he's either an agnostic of an atheist?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wasn't referring to the people on THIS list, but to the people on the
>> list of agnostics that Dave Monroe sent a link to.
>>
>> LK
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Colter **
>> Sent: Jun 27, 2012 5:48 PM
>> To: David Morris **
>> Cc: Phillip Greenlief **, pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: List of agnostics
>>
>> Sure GR's core is deeply Agnostic, but M&D is a different thing
>> altogether. Tho' Cherrycoke is of a somewhat dubious orthodoxy he certainly
>> worships Christ and misses no opportunity to ridicule Deism...?
>> Presbyterian myself,
>> Did someone really insist that we were atheists?
>> some people on this list......
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've played with the I Ching (not seriously enough to say I've studied
>> it) one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.  At its heart it
>> is a representation of the universe (maybe the source of Taoism), and
>> its structure starts with two elements, yang & yin, symbolically
>> corresponding  to male and female.  So it would agree to a universe of
>> two frequencies, but they wouldn't be fear and love.  The range of
>> opposites would be infinite, thus the spinning duality of the yin/yang
>> mandala.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>>  > Subject: Re: List of agnostics
>> >
>> > Some say
>>
>>
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