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Think. Again.

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6. I've looked into quite a few...
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 06:33 PM
Jan 2024

...theist belief structures, but what it always boils down to for me is that I am, and not by wish or decision, an Apathetic Agnostic (I don't know and I don't care).

Humanism fits me best.

I sincerely don't believe that we could 'know' about a thing that's beyond our human comprehension, and believing in something I can't recognize as fact is out (I think that's called delusion).

And I don't fit Atheism because, well, ya can't prove a negative, if I can't know a god or whatever exists how could I know it doesn't?

So I'm left as an Agnostic (the 'don't know' part) who doesn't see how any larger being's existence would matter to how we live our day-to-day lives in any case (the 'don't care' part).

With Humanism, I can find justification in 'being good without god', and that's all I really ask of myself, is to be as 'good' as I can during this life thing.

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