South Park

**bbobb** · 04 Nov 2006, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by g0zen

Actually agnosticism alone is just a misuse of terminology by college students who don't want to admit that they're atheists.

You don't say:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agnostic

I think you're pulling bullshit here.

**Mman** · 04 Nov 2006, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by bbobb

You don't say:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agnostic

I think you're pulling bullshit here.

His point was that agnostic doesn't always mean the same thing. It is a broader category than it typically is used as. However, that is hardly a misuse, nor do I know why he assumes to know what college kids actually think. actually, I do. It is his overflated ego.

**Fe 26** · 04 Nov 2006, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by g0zen

I'm not 'rabid' at all, I'm engaging in discussion. Just because people don't like my arguments doesn't make them any less valid.

brother?

**Fe 26** · 04 Nov 2006, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by Mman

His point was that agnostic doesn't always mean the same thing. It is a broader category than it typically is used as. However, that is hardly a misuse, nor do I know why he assumes to know what college kids actually think. actually, I do. It is his overflated ego.

he's taken a class or read a book on the subject. He obviously smarter than you now, which gives him every right to be a prick about what he knows.

duh

**FirstBlood** · 04 Nov 2006, 03:15 PM

yeah, fuck education, that shit never makes a difference when forming arguments!

**avatar** · 04 Nov 2006, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Mman

actually, I do. It is his overflated ego.

Nah. No way man. No way.

**g0zen** · 04 Nov 2006, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mman

actually, I do. It is his overflated ego.

LOL, nice personal attack. Actually, the joke isn't mine. It was said originally by Penn Jillette when someone made the exact same argument to him. Though he phrased it as 'agnosticism is what college students say they are so they can pray before exams'.

Also, if you actually read Huxley (which if you want to claim yourself as being an agnostic you should) you'd see that he essentially says that being an agnostic means only that you do not commit to an ultimate answer to the single ultimate question, but can incline toward one or the other (like I said above).

EDIT: Oh and before you all jump on me let's try to remember it was bbobb who came in here with his nose held high and essentially called me an idiot for being an atheist first.

**andyrose** · 04 Nov 2006, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

I know the catholic episode had a large number of inaccuracies, both in how small details were presented, which were understandable, and how major underpinnings of doctrine were presented, which undercut the auhority of the satire.

Science H. Science, what in the name of Science are you talking about?