re: #26 calochortus

The problem with atheist vs. agnostic is a lack of clarity to the terms. I sometimes say I’m an atheist, sometimes an agnostic, and most often I just say I’m not religious.

I think we need an agreed upon term for “I don’t see any evidence for the supernatural, and until I do, I don’t believe it exists. However, if I see evidence I will reevaluate my position.”

My issue is that I want to see hard scientific evidence, but have also had had personal experiences of the supernatural* (might just be merely anecdata or misunderstandings of my own mind, freely posited), so that puts me into the “reevaluate” category.

* These experiences will be boring to most folk; mostly they were either a sense of overwhelming, irresistible peace; dream-like experiences-but-not-real-experiences-while-real-experiences were happening, not under any chemical influence; and I think I saw a ghost once (but that could be again a problem of EM/fungal/psychosomatic influence, I admit).