Cynical and bitter mutualist & consequentialist. I hate accelerationists and their apologists as much as I hate fascists.

I used to want good things, but everyone else seems to be fine with bad things. So now I’m pro-vacuum decay event.

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  • They are terms for different axes of belief.

    Atheist and theist refer to whether someone believes in any kind of theism. Anti-theism and pro-theism would take it further in terms of whether you want to promote or reduce the amount of theism.

    Agnostic and gnostic merely indicate a level of certainty in any belief. Its extremely rare that people are perfectly neutral between atheism and theism. They usually lean in one direction or another, so agnostics are either agnostic theists or agnostic atheist. They are usually the latter, as they are also often atheists trying to minimize the social costs of being a non-believer.



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    7 days ago

    They’re an agnostic atheist. And which of those words they use to describe themselves effects people’s opinions of atheism and atheists. If I want to criticize them for their cowardice I’m going to.

    The sooner religion and spirituality dies the better. Its mass psychosis.


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    You can be an agnostic deist. Agnostic just means you have no firm belief. Most people who identify as “nones” in polls are technically agnostic, even if they personally believe in a higher power. Its a lack of certainty.

    Most atheists are also technically agnostic atheists. A gnostic athiest would be someone who holds the absence of any higher being or spirituality as an almost axiomatic belief. Though they merely can be so certain that the small chance they’re wrong seems irrelevant to them.