Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01400)

Harder-core agnostics tend to go well beyond saying that they don't 
know if there's a GOD or not, as opposed to softer-core agnostics.  
Harder-core agnostics such as myself actually say that GOD is 
unknowable by anyone involved in any creed or religion, despite the 
professions of religious people to know GOD, whether it be in nature 
or personal relationship.  

Vince

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@...> 
wrote:
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> Dear Chuck, Vince,
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> Agnostic is a word coined by Thomas Huxley in the nineteenth 
century.  
> He was playing on the word "gnostic", meaning, "to know."   
The "a" is a 
> negation.  So one who is agnostic is one who doesn't know.
> 
> Best
> Jerry
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> Drpsionic@... wrote:
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> >In a message dated 3/23/2006 10:49:21 AM Central Standard Time,  
> >vblaz2004@... writes:
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> >So the  basis of agnosticism is gnosticism, according to your 
> >interpretation of  the First Theosophical Statement?
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> >Vince
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> >Not at all, at least not as the term agnostic, which really 
means  apatheitic 
> >in modern speech, is used now.
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> >Not that it matters.
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> >Chuck the Heretic
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