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Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end?
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Do you believe that just before you are about to die you sill succumb to the awesome power of GOD? Your father and maker, the beginning and the end.
Are you willing to wager the ultimate prize?

Btw I'm not a believer although i might just be before i die.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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Awesome power of who?


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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i won't walk into death like a scared little puppy. face your demons before the time comes.

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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: ]
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i won't walk into death like a scared little puppy.

No, it will be more like a scared little human.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Swami]
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yes, i would be a scared human, but i wouldn't shatter my principles and belief in a god at the notion that i might die.

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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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I refuse to base my beliefs on fear of the unknown. Until I see definitive proof that there is such a place as hell and that I will go there if I don't believe, I refuse to take up Pasqual's wager.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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That's a good question... I don't know what I'll do till the time comes in which I have to face a situation like that. I'm agnostic so I do believe that there is a higher power, who or what it is remains to be seen in death. I believe I'll stand by my spiritual views until I die, but hopefully I have many more years to come.

I'm sure if I get diagnosed with cancer and I have a set time frame to live, I might change my mind and seek refuge within The BIble. But to me, as of right now, The Bible isn't much more then a glorified epic fable.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: djd586]
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I thought agnostic meant that you believe that knowledge of God or a higher power is unknowable or unprovable.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: bert]
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yeah, that's exactly what is it and what I said... "I'm agnostic so I do believe that there is a higher power, who or what it is remains to be seen in death."


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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If something is proven to me during/after death that I hadn't believed previously, like for instance, if when I died suddenly God appeared before me and said "I am God and you are dead - this is the afterlife; these are angels, those are demons down there, yadda yadda," then certainly I'd become a believer..

Otherwise, I'm sticking with what I KNOW and can prove; everything else is just a large orgy of possibilities/probabilities dancing in my brain :smile:


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Strumpling]
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it seems highly unlikey that i'd "submit" to the bible on my deathbed, Christianity as a whole has always seemed kinda...... wrong, I don't believe that you need to follow all of christianity's rules, god isn't as simple as they make him/her/it out to be, as long as i've lived a life that I feel has been "right" I'll go to "heaven" or whatever you might call it.

so what if the Christians are wrong?

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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Faaip_De_Oiad]
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There is a difference between an agnostic and an atheist in this situation. The atheist would be proven wrong , the agnostic (like myself) will be accepting and proving one of the previous probable theories.

MAIA


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: MAIA]
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I don't believe in agnostics. Either you believe its possible or you don't.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Strumpling]
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Either you believe its possible or you don't.

I thought that's what agnostic was...believing that god is possible yet unprovable.

Am I not alowed to think this way?


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: trendal]
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so has anyone besides me ever been a member of the "society of evangelical agnostics" ???
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oh, and pascal's wager is a sucker's bet... (cheap CYA, ante up... ummm, no thanks...)
i'd rather go for the spiritual exercises of the tassawuf, or of dr charles tart, or most buddhist schools...
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& there seem to be degrees of agnosticism...
like:
i dunno
i dunno & neither do you
cain't nobody know nohow
dunno & don't care
dunno but care a great deal
don'givadamn
& what was the question again
etc...
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saw james watson on TV at a bookstore pushing his new DNA book... he was glad he was raised by a non-beliving dad...

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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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Well...
If I were to "succumb", I wouldn't really be better off, because I'd be choosing one religion of thousands. My odds really wouldn't be any better.

If you were to change over in the end, you weren't much of an atheist or agnostic to begin with anyways.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: silversoul7]
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silversoul7: I refuse to base my beliefs on fear of the unknown. Until I see definitive proof that there is such a place as hell and that I will go there if I don't believe, I refuse to take up Pasqual's wager.

You took the words right out of my mouth.


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Sclorch]
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Despite the seeming logical impossibility of God existing, some would raise the point that you should believe anyways, just in case.  This argument, known as Pascal?s Wager, goes as follows: If you believe in God and He really exists, you?ll go to heaven.  If you believe in God and He doesn?t exist, you have the misfortune of being wrong.  If you don?t believe in God and He doesn?t exist, you only get the benefit of being right.  If you don?t believe in God and He does exist, then you?ll go to hell.  So the best bet lies with belief because if you?re wrong it?s no big deal.  Right?

If it were simply a choice between believing or not believing in God, believing would be correct.  But we have to account for the possibility of other gods existing.  If we add up all the multitudes of gods that might send us to heaven or hell, the odds that you believe in the right god are astronomically small.  Furthermore, the possibility exists that there is a god that sends Christians to hell and unbelievers to heaven.  By Pascal's logic you should be an atheist, just in case.

Even the odds against God existing are not the only consideration.  Think about all the forests cut down to produce Bibles instead of houses, all the money spent on huge churches instead of on the poor, and all those who died, killed, or otherwise wasted their lives for Christianity.  All of which may be for nothing.  Incorrect belief does have  some drawbacks when you add up the costs to humanity.


- Wrote that for the Atheist and Agnostic Student Group at university :smile:


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: pattern]
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i just go with the flow


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Re: Agnostics and atheists will you succumb just before the end? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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Fear and enculturation may well indeed bring most of us to pray during our last moments. So what?

I almost died many years ago from eating tainted hashish. My resting heart rate was 250 bpm and I was near fibrillation. I prayed with all my heart (no pun intended!) and found no one to be home; no release from pain or fear nor sense of peace, just pure terror.

*voice from the back* Hey, ya lived didn't ya Swami?

Yes, but that is neither evidence for nor against God, but more for the fact that I was young & healthy.


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