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/ > > >
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia |
srirangasri-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To subscribe to the list |