List of agnostics

[Keith Davis]

Yes, without precisely defined terms, it is impossible to communicate
effectively, and at the same time, limiting oneself to the precise
definitions of words may keep the boundaries of understanding from
stretching.

I remember the first time a musician friend told me that a mutual friend
"had his jaws tight" with him about something. That might not apply
precisely to the discussion at hand, but it made me think about something
in a completely different way.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hell, the experience of tasting lunch is "ineffable". What people mean by
> "inexpressible" is that it takes too many words too carefully considered to
> actually communicate the matter in question. What, for instance, do
> religion, spirituality, spiritualism, agnosticism, and atheism really mean?
> Probably something somewhat different to each user of the word in question.
> If meaning were limited to denotative functions, communication might be
> simpler, but novelty would likely be limited. That's just a part of what
> makes it possible to continue to disagree about things we really share a
> certain consensus on.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:49 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>> > On 6/29/2012 4:53 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>> >
>> > Which brings up the subject of Lemuel.  Newcomers a lot of times act
>> like him.  It's not necessarily that they're complete jackasses.  They just
>> don't understand what they have gotten into.  And we can't tell them.
>>
>> He seem to desire negative attention, and the best response to such is
>> none.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>



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