amonokerism

[Benjamin Barrett]

Fantastic!! (Like you, I doubt it will catch on, but...)

On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Daniel Midgley wrote:

> Hey, all.
>
> I mentioned amonokerism on my weekly radio interview on RTRFM in
> Perth, Australia -- gave a shout-out to ADS as well.
>
> http://www.rtrfm.com.au/restream/9014
>
> It's a stream -- I appear about 5/6ths of the way through.
>
> I'm not sure if I pronounced it as intended, and I may have turned
> Benjamin into a team of atheists (sorry about that), but I'm a fan of
> the meme, and I hope it catches.
>
> Best,
> Daniel
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> On 25/11/2009, at 3:46 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>> Poster:       Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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>> Skeptic is another term I considered, but "I'm a skeptic" sounds to
>> me as though I'm skeptical about everything. Also, about "skeptic,"
>> my Mac dictionary says,
>>
>> a person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions.
>> a person who doubts the truth of Christianity and other religions;
>> an atheist or agnostic.
>>
>> I am not inclined to question or doubt the truth of religions. To
>> me, they seem so outrageously improbable, they aren't worth
>> considering. (They may be interesting to investigate as complexes of
>> thought or orientations of society, etc., but not plausible.)
>>
>> BB
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>>
>>> "Skeptic" is a well-established term for someone who bases
>>> conclusions on
>>> evidence rather than faith, and it does not directly reference
>>> deities.
>>>
>>> "Non-theist" is the most common blanket term to cover all the
>>> atheist-agnostic-humanist spectrum, but it does reference deities.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>> Behalf Of
>>> Benjamin Barrett
>>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:31 PM
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: amonokerism
>>>
>>> What is the (existing) term you would propose instead then?
>>>
>>> I have no interest in defining myself in terms of deity beliefs or
>>> the
>>> unknowability of deities.
>>>
>>> BB
>>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>>>
>>>> The last thing the non-theist community needs is yet another term
>>>> categorizing its beliefs.
>>>
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> Daniel
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> Daniel Midgley
> University of Western Australia
> Linguistics

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