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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
> >
> >
> >
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