The Cynical Optimist

Mark my words.

Good job Massachusetts–the irony of the most liberal state electing a Republican to the U.S. senate. Sigh. Expect another +50 points on the Dow as health care gains tomorrow on insurance sentiments. Jerks.

Oh yeah, and the democrats have a lot of republican dick-sucking to do to get the 60th vote now.

I would prefer long-term reduction of health care spending over maintaining the status quo to a point where more than a sixth of the GDP will be sucked into the private sector’s “death panels.”

I was talking to a friend and I came to some interesting conclusions…

I just looked up agnostic atheism and I finally understand how how one can be an atheist but not reject the unknown. I am not an agnostic theist myself, but I’m not sure if that makes me an agnostic atheist because I do not reject (NOR do I endorse) theism/atheism as a component of my agnosticism.

I simply believe that it is impossible to know if there is or is not one or more deities, whereas agnostic ahteists do not believe in the existence of any deity but they do not claim to know that no deity exists. I just share the latter half of that ideology but at the same time I don’t endorse theism. So does that just make me a regular ole’ Agnostic?

Well, I think I finally figured it out, but I can’t decide between Strong Agnosticism (we’ll never know) and Weak Agnosticism (we can know if our science is advanced enough).

I think we need a new category “Agnostic Agnosticism” for people that don’t know if humans can ever know whether or not they’ll never know–that’s basically where I stand right now.  It’s a little confusing but I hope you understand.