Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

> An  agnostic seems to sit on the fence between the religious concept of god and the atheist who has no god.  <

it's a mistake to generalize: for me (an aggie), the non-existence of
god is a working hypothesis, while for an atheist, it's a fact.

On 3/9/07, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings Economists,
> While the metaphysical debate I use above is far from over, a knowledge
> economy would address the emotion component in new ways.  An  agnostic
> seems to sit on the fence between the religious concept of god and the
> atheist who has no god.  This is an emotional fence.  Therefore an
> emotion structure argument.  If a knowledge economy 'engineers' an
> emotion structure into IT (information technology) then the question of
> relationship or connection between atheist and religious is more
> directly addressed by means of emotional connection and the need for
> defining an ambiguous feeling of commitment in agnosticism is replaced
> by a more direct emotional connection process of how people really do
> connect emotionally.
> Doyle


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