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An agnostic believes that the nature of God and/or supernatural are unknown and unknowable by human beings, if they exist at all. An agnostic thinks it is impossible (at least now, with our current understanding of the nature of the world) to conclusively know the truth about the existence of God and the afterlife which Christianity and other religions are concerned with. If you ask an agnostic "Does God exist?", possible replies might include: I don't personally know. I can't give an opinion because we can't prove the existence or non-existence of God given currently available knowledge. I can't give an opinion because there's no real way to know, with certainty, anything about God. Anything's possible, but we can't assert that God definitely does exist, or that God definitely does not exist. It is beyond our capabilities to prove anything about God. An agnostic is different from an atheist, who believes, with certainty, that God does not exist. Agnostic means, literally, "does not know" (from Greek: the prefix a- means "not/without" + gnosis means "knowledge" source
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But on the other hand there is evidence to back up events that happened in the bible like the ark and other stuff. I just think it's weird, so many different opinions, and annoying as we will almost probably never know whilst alive! Out of interest why do you want to believe the views of Christianity. As i see it most of us will be going to hell if Christianity is true. And do you know that heaven is apparently just worshipping God, that sound good to you? I just hope there is a God, a neutral one and a good God which will reward people for what they have done and a chance to redeem themselves for the murderers etc. Humans are all the same ultimately, and people shouldn't be blamed for their upbringing and companions in life. | |
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They've predicted other stuff as well, they said that the eagle and the bear would go to war - and they did, the cold war. They predicted other stuff as well apparently, but most of the predicitions are really ambiguous and could be interpretted as loads of things. I'll try and find out what other stuff they predicted | |
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I am agnostic, in that I do not believe we are capable of understanding how we came to be. However, I feel that if there was an "All-loving God", as so many religions describe him, then why would he ever punish someone who didn't believe in him, or follow his teachings, regardless of how they act. I like and agree with this video: The title is irrelevant, just listen to the content.
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![]() ![]() ![]() | I have sooooo much to say on this but rather than type it all out take a look through this thread which was made about the subject before. Its long but theres some very interesting discussions in there... 2012 Prophecies???
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![]() | Will the world end in 2012? Ask me again on 1st January 2013 I've lost count of the number of times that I've been told that the world is going to end on a particular day at a particular time, and yet miraculously we're all still here! In my opinion, it doesn't matter when the world ends, cos if you think it's going to end next friday (for example) then why bother doing anything? Focus more on living today, rather than worrying about tomorrow! |
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![]() | Ok, if the world was going to end in 2012, how would the mayans have any idea? Its not like they can predict the future. I don't fear death, so it doesn't bother me in the least. |
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If i thought the world was going to end next Friday I'd be very very busy doing loads of stuff that i've always wanted to do. Why would you not "bother" doing anything? You'd just sit around and wait for it? That surprises me. Its like if i was going to die tomorrow Id go out and buy some heroin. Why not? You're going to die anyway might as well see what all the fuss is about.
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![]() | That kind of proves my point- if you thought the world was going to end tomorrow, you'd go out and buy heroin, then if it turns out that it didn't end tomorrow, you could end up with a heroin habit for life and end up a criminal etc. Also, if scientists could prove that the world was going to end in six months (eg there was a massive asteroid heading for Earth and everyone would definitely die) and everyone took your attitude then farmers would stop growing food for everyone else (why bother, next month we'll all be dead anyway), society would crumble (why bother obeying laws, in a month we'll all be dead anyway, so lets rob shops and get in fights and drink and take drugs). So I reckon society would collapse and a significant number of people (possibly everyone) would be dead long before the asteroid hit. However, I like to think that a lot of people (myself included) would be able to demonstrate that greatest of British attributes- the stiff upper lip. I like to think that we would be able to maintain enough self control to maintain some semblance of a society, and indeed Humanity, rather than resort to anarchy and wholesale destruction. |
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In order for the whole of society to collapse, a majority would need to think the world's ending, not just some new age hippies or whoever it is that believes ancient predictions. Again all it takes is a "majority" to think the world's ending. So if as i suspect, those people you mention who would "control themselves" and continue business as usual are an overwhelming minority, then society would still crumble. With the best will in the world those people alone could not maintain a society, in any "shape or form". Either society would crumble or it wouldn't, eg. if such a person sold rail tickets there would be no point without a train driver. of the person in question sold fruit, he'd have no customers if no delivery came that morning.
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| iPod 30gb | Apparently the arrival of the 10th planet "Nibiru" and it's inhabitants the "Annunaki" will come to soon be in passing. I don't think this is true purely because if a planet with a 3600 year orbit was nearing us, we would be able to see it.
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![]() | ask God, he probably knows the answer, as for my opinion, no it definitely wont |
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