wenchcoat system:
🍯 Akhra (or Melli to disambiguate), ratel.
🐲 Rhiannon, drangolin.
🦡 Lenestre, American badger.
unless tagged or otherwise obvious, assume 🍯🐲🦡 in chorus; even when that's not quite accurate, we will always be in consensus. address collectively as Akhra (she/her), or as wenchcoat (she/her or plural).
💞@atonal440
💕@cattie-grace
❤️🔥(not#onhere)
🧇@Reba-Rabbit
thinking about how the US anti-christian internet atheist remnant have been allied with the US far-right christians for about a decade. what a world
it was an incredibly isolating thing to experience from within atheist circles. really drove home why Huxley coined "agnostic;" a century had muddied the meaning of that to the point that it seemed like more trouble than it was worth at the time. but damn there really is a difference between absence of faith, and faith in absence.
Making fun of their fedoras worked so well to disastrous effect.
Reactionaries find their own regardless of the trappings they drape themselves in
I've always called myself an atheist, though I've never had any exposure to online atheists so I'm not sure how that all developed into a largely fascist community. Also the literal definition of atheist doesn't really fit me.
I won't profess to KNOW whether or not there's divine beings, which doesn't seem to jive with the meaning of Atheist, but I also don't agree with the hands-off treatment of religion that agnosticism seems to have. My belief has always been that while I'm aware that pretty much no common earth-born religions are worth their weight in shit, that knowledge doesn't claim an impossibility of divine intelligence existing somewhere. I also believe, however, that should there exist a divine being worth recognizing, such a being wouldn't mind if it weren't recognized. And if a divine being like most of those present in our human holy books exists, it wouldn't be worth recognizing due to its "humanity" being less than that of an actual human, and it's "ego" being greater than that of a human. Basically if such a being existed I would simply say, "I will face god and walk backwards into hell." On top of all that I believe fighting against ORGANIZED religion is paramount if we are to survive as a people (it isn't about the religion, it's about the social control)...
And all of that means I don't really fit into the mold of Atheist or Agnostic. Maybe a word like Antitheist would describe me better? But that seems to imply an opposition to theism itself and not just organized religion... Maybe apatheism? Since I feel if there's any deity worth believing in they wouldn't mind someone NOT believing in them? 🤔 shrug
like I said, it's gotten muddied. 😛
tldr, "agnostic" is not about simple uncertainty or lack of knowledge, but unfalsifiability and Gödelian impossibility of knowledge. which, quite explicitly, would not apply if some supreme intelligence revealed itself directly; and also has no conflict with individual faith not presented as objective absolutes, but absolutely does oppose unfounded indoctrination. your position matches mine pretty closely, which matches Thomas Huxley's pretty closely, which is what he invented the word to describe.
but, pop philosophy is a big ol' game of telephone and now it takes a paragraph to explain it's not just "idunno"
