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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> >Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx >> > >> > >> > >> >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> >> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >> >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >http://finance.yahoo.com >
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