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Originally Posted by Hilch
Agnostics try to decide between this and that, I believe there are other choices than this and that. Agnostics ends with the lack of answers and say it's impossible to answer where I believe there must be better questions to get a true answer of the truth and the lack of answers is the start, not the end of the discussion.
Maybe I fall into a little bit of everything to be honest. But I beleive Agnostics are bound by their ignorance of having to decide between one or another, where I feel I'm unsure because of the limited knowledge on all fronts.
I feel I do everything I can to be a good person and do the right thing so if it came down to me dying and not getting into heaven because I didn't believe in a certain god, than so be it, I wouldn't want to be part of it anyways.
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I think part of the problem is that a lot of those of us in the middle ground have gotten to our viewpoint through our own very personal questions and experiences, and it feels that a unique path must arrive at a unique perspective. I've never met another person who I am going to agree with 100% on these sorts of theological questions, but that doesn't mean that my viewpoint exist outside of pre-existing labels.
Agnosticism is a bit of a middle-ground catchall, and I know that if I define myself as agnostic, it gives someone I'm talking to an approximate idea of where my beliefs fit (assuming they correctly understand the term), in that I don't claim knowledge about God one way or another. But I would need to further define exactly where, within the vast territory of agnosticism I fit, something I would choose not to get into under normal circumstances.
Your characterization of agnosticism here is inaccurate: agnosticism suggests a lack of confidence in existing answers to the Existence of God question, but makes no generalization about what the correct answer is, what form the answer will take, whether the question is answerable, whether the question is meaningful, or even whether the right question is being asked. Some agnostics might believe that the answer must be 'this or that', as you put it, but is probably uncommon. Personally, I've never talked with an agnostic who has put forth such a proposition.