Philosophy

Calling yourself an “atheist” or “agnostic” doesn’t excuse you from grappling with life’s great mysteries.

It’s a negative definition, like saying, “I’m not a wooly mammoth.”

You need a value system for the journey.

Otherwise, the algorithms will upload one into you.

Kinda seems wrong to equate atheist and agnostic imo 

Atheists have decided something about life’s great mysteries. It is a concrete position 

Agnostics are the fence sitters who can’t commit

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I don’t think anything above is untrue, however…

The original cast I think makes a very good point in the sense that there is a social use for having a unified belief about the world/universe and an atheist is not positing a new belief but just negating specific ones that already exist. The idea is that there is a social benefit (and maybe necessity) in having new unifying belief if you’re going to say the old one is wrong

Epistemologically, atheists could be correct but pragmatically they are failing