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Entries in Agnosticism (2)

Saturday
Aug102013

Lamentation for America

Mankind cannot survive without an ideal to follow and an icon to whom to strive. Shall we continue in our state where we have become enslaved by our own ambitions, arrogance, and pleasures, or will we open ourselves to humility, see the parameters of our limitations, and admit to the need we can never fill within humanity?

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Friday
Jul122013

I Don't Know

I’ll never understand how “I don’t know” could ever be a sufficient answer for truth. By sufficient, I mean that it must satisfy curiosity, answer questions, and comfort. Admittedly, it is quite honest, but when a lack of knowledge is coupled with no effort to seek it, then essentially you embrace a world-view centered on ignorance: you have no curiosity, you ignore questions that must be answered, and the only comfort you feel is that you can coast through life just fine as long as you tolerate everything, offend few, and have to defend nothing, with the exception of the deficiency in understanding anything.