Poll: Are all carrots agnostic?

[Amechania]

Actually, I've though about it and god is really more of a romanesco broccoli than a cauliflower. 90% of romanescos are Catholic compared to only 2% of carrots, according to Christianity Today.

 

[fantome profane]

I think you people should be ashamed of yourselves for making fun of innocent root vegetables.

(mushy carrots)

 

[crossfire]

Ahh, can carrots know enough that they don't know?

 

[Me Myself]

Ahh, can carrots know enough that they don't know?

Carrots dont know cause they cant know.

According to the oxford dictionary, they cant be agnostic either because they would need to belief it is impossible to know (not simply not know)

They cant be atheists either because they are not persons.

 

[Sunstone]

The question of whether or not carrots are agnostic is a red herring. Red is the color of communism. Communists are atheists. Therefore, carrots are atheists.

More seriously, how can a thing that doesn't think be accused of taking a thinking position on some subject.

 

[Debater Slayer]

The question of whether or not carrots are agnostic is a red herring. Red is the color of communism. Communists are atheists. Therefore, carrots are atheists.

Actually, that's a straw man. Carrots are orange, and orange is the color of non-theists on RF. Therefore, carrots are non-theists.

 

[Sunstone]

Actually, that's a straw man. Carrots are orange, and orange is the color of non-theists on RF. Therefore, carrots are non-theists.

I bow to your greater wisdom.

 

[Me Myself]

The question of whether or not carrots are agnostic is a red herring. Red is the color of communism. Communists are atheists. Therefore, carrots are atheists.

More seriously, how can a thing that doesn't think be accused of taking a thinking position on some subject.

They are trying to equate the question to saying babies are atheists.

The point is moot, as agnosticism needs either a belief or doubt, while atheism needs only for it to be a person and lacking a belief.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Actually, that's a straw man. Carrots are orange, and orange is the color of non-theists on RF. Therefore, carrots are non-theists.

Actually, Orange is the color of a-catholics.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

According to the oxford dictionary, they cant be agnostic either because they would need to belief it is impossible to know (not simply not know)

But the OED also offers, as one definition of agnostic (adj), "doubtful or noncommittal," and I've yet to hear a carrot commit one way or the other.

 

[Me Myself]

But the OED also offers, as one definition of agnostic (adj), "doubtful or noncommittal," and I've yet to hear a carrot commit one way or the other.

Yu convinientyly forgot a word

Doubtful or noncommittal ATTITUDE.

If you are an animist and think carrots have attitudes, then sure, think on them as agnostic.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

The question of whether or not carrots are agnostic is a red herring. Red is the color of communism. Communists are atheists. Therefore, carrots are atheists.

More seriously, how can a thing that doesn't think be accused of taking a thinking position on some subject.

As an animist, I must disagree--just because a being lacks an identifiable neural structure--nor a visible means to express itself--is not sufficient grounds for saying it is not aware and/or does not think.

 

[Sunstone]

As an animist, I must disagree--just because a being lacks an identifiable neural structure--nor a visible means to express itself--is not sufficient grounds for saying it is not aware and/or does not think.

But aren't you speaking now of Conservatives, rather than carrots?

 

[Me Myself]

Yu conviniently are wrong - see here ...

I am using the oxford

Definition of agnostic in Oxford Dictionaries (British & World English)

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

But aren't you speaking now of Conservatives, rather than carrots?

Ah, but the question wasn't about the political views of carrots!

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I think the carrots I'm growing are very hardcore agnostics

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I'm surprised that the mythicist crowd has not weighed in ...

 

[Me Myself]

I think the carrots I'm growing are very hardcore agnostics

How do you know?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

How do you know?

It seems likely - this rabbit eats them all of the time, and there's always Slayer playing in my garden

 

[Willamena]

Because inexistence of belief is not at all symetrical with existence of belief.

One can (and in fact does) lack belief in a multitude of concepts that he never learned or that were never even conceived.

To claim belief in any concept, quite by contrast, demands having some sort of notion (even if a misguided one) of what that concept would be.

It does not even involve any kind of courtesy, just clarity of the concepts of belief and lack of belief.

"Not believing" doesn't represent an inexistence. Inexistence doesn't exist, but "not believing" does.