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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