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Dear Shri Sudarshan,

Good. May I slightly modify it. "An atheist believes in non-believing. An
agnostic doesn't know what to beleve! Only a true theist believes that he
believes!"

Regards.

Swamy

At 22:51 27/08/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Dear Sri Svamy,
>
>Here is a quip you might want to savour:
>
> "An atheist doubts Belief. An agnostic believes in Doubt."
>
>Regards,
>dAsan,
>
>Sudarshan
>
>--- "S.V.SWAMY" <swamy@xxxx> wrote:
>> Hari Om. Shri Dileepan is right. The dictionary meaning of Agnostic
>> is what
>> he gave. But in any of our indian languages do we have a word
>> equivalent to
>> that? Probably not. so what I menat and what I should have said in
>> my last
>> mail is that they have passed from a stage of faith to a stage of
>> doubt and
>> if they continue on that path will end up with there is no God. 
>> 
>> These phases do come in the lives of many. Only poorva janma punyam
>> will
>> give a staunch unflinching faith in God. The next best is that with
>> His
>> grace, they will come out of the present problems and with
>> hindsight, will
>> realise that whatever problems they faced were for their good.
>> 
>> Let us hope He helps them.
>> 
>> And thank you, Mr.Dileepan.
>> 
>> Swamy SV
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 21:17 20/08/02 -0000, dileepan wrote:
>> >--- In SriRangaSri@xxxx, "S.V.SWAMY" <swamy@xxxx> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>So if Ms.Sridevi has used the word Agnotic in its correct
>> literary 
>> >sense, they
>> >> have only moved away from aposition of total faith to doubting 
>> >thomas
>> >> stage. They have not closed the door on god!
>> >
>> >
>> >This is not correct. Let me reproduce the dictionary
>> >meaning of the word agnostic from webster on line:
>> >
>> > "a person who holds the view that any ultimate 
>> > reality (as God) is unknown and prob. unknowable;
>> > broadly : one who is not committed to believing 
>> > in either the existence or the nonexistence of 
>> > God or a god"
>> >
>> >In other words someone is committed to not care about
>> >ultimate reality. This is not "doubting stage". There
>> >is no doubt in the minds of these individuals as suggested
>> >in this response. They are convinced that the existance
>> >of god can neither be proved nor disproved. I hope the
>> >readers get the subtle actual meaning of the word agnostic.
>> >
>> >-- dileepan
>> >
>> >
>> >
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