MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Ticket to the War Room

> > Yeah, I was trending toward inaccuracies in that last bit.
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> I wonder if the 'something from nothing' thing was one of them?
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> > But in any case, to be an
> > agnostic is to not know if there is or isn't a deity, and an atheist has, by
> > definition, no religion.
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> What about, say, Buddhists?
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> > An atheist, certain in the knowledge that there are no supernatural entities, could
> > call any theist an agnostic, as they, to his mind, can't possibly know that
> something
> > that doesn't exist does. The same way that they insist that all atheists are
> actually
> > agnostics.
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> Hm-hmm. Tit for tat.
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> Not to draw any focus on you TriggerFin, but at one time you did have 'Gno Truth'
> under your username (and was changed to 'Gnu Truth' after some criticism by a couple
> other forum members -making a joke of 'No Truth').... So I had the thought, wondering
> if 'Gno' was a reference to Gnosticism.

It wasn't. I don't recall it ever being that, though I guess it WAS something else....

I do rather prefer the Bible with Apocrypha to the onion-skin KJV next to it, though I like the language of KJ more, from a literary standpoint, and I know they're both full of translation errors. But I have certainly never identified myself as a Gnostic, publicly or privately. The only church I've ever enjoyed attending was the local Methodist one, the whole congregation singing a good variety of selections from the hymnal. Then they started sending letters regarding our falling behind on our "donations." Probably 30 years ago now.

No, the gnu is an animal, I think there was something about wildebeest on TV at the time.