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Originally posted by George Smiley How would one go about convincing people that agnosticism is right anyway?!

We can't really know what's out there. Therefore, we'd better not waste our time pretending we can

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I don't talk about it unless someone asks me about it. And in front of my grandparents, aunt and uncle, and father i'm christian

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Originally posted by Sunsnail I don't talk about it unless someone asks me about it. And in front of my grandparents, aunt and uncle, and father i'm christian

that's weird, your aunt likes me to be a fireman.

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Originally posted by Lira We can't really know what's out there. Therefore, we'd better not waste our time pretending we can

I'm impressed, sir.

Usually does not come up in discussion but if it does, I tell that I'm an atheist.

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Agnostic here, pending more into atheism than the other way around. I'm in a very heavily catholic island.

I go the "pretend" way with my family, because my grandmother is a hardcore catholic that would spend nights awoke thinking I'd go to hell. My mother is quite catholic too, and tries to make me go to church every Sunday - and almost every Sunday I make up new excuses not to go. I just feel out of place there.

With everyday random people, I try to ignore the subject as well. I've met some ultra conservative muppets that had boiling me in rage from the inside with their nonsense (not necessarily connected to religion), but controlled myself and just ignored the subject.

With close friends I am open however - but the subject very rarely pops up.

So basically I'm part of a minority, and in the closet.

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"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." - Francis Bacon, The Essays: Of Atheism

I don't really look at the PDD that much, but everytime I lurk, all I see you doing is posting quotes and videos made by other people. Afraid of thinking by yourself and exercising a little more of your creativity in words?

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Originally posted by noikeee I don't really look at the PDD that much, but everytime I lurk, all I see you doing is posting quotes and videos made by other people. Afraid of thinking by yourself and exercising a little more of your creativity in words?

While I appreciate your apparent concern as well as your ingenuousness, I do think it's kind of foolish for anyone to come to such a conclusion based solely upon the limited degree of perception that a simple messageboard post might be able to provide.

While I am partial to asserting my creative energies elsewhere where they can be more productively maintained and not just denigrated by idiotic trolls and mindless critics, I greatly enjoy expounding upon the thoughts and ideologies of the many great minds that have come before me and intend to continue doing so until the day that I die.

I hope that isn't too difficult for you to understand because that's just how I feel.

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"Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic." - Jean Sibelius