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Comment author: simplicio 03 January 2013 06:46:10PM 1 point [-]

About me: I think a lot- mostly by myself. That's trained me in some really lazy habits that I am looking to change now.

Yes, I know the feeling. Welcome out of the echo chamber!

I like being agnostic more than atheist, just on a few tiny little wiggle-words that seem powerfully interesting to me...

Do you mean that it's literally the words you find interesting? Which ones?

Comment author: anansi133 03 January 2013 07:15:36PM 0 points [-]

That's not actually what I meant, but the challenge seems interesting. lemme see...

Reciprocity? (I'm looking for a word to describe what happens when Islam holds Jesus up as a prophet worth listening to, but Christians afford no such courtesy to Muhammad.)

Faith (Firefly's Book asks Mal, "when I ask you to have faith, why do you think I'm talking about God?")

Ethics vs Morals (few people I know seem to recognize a difference, let alone agree on it)

Moral Class (If we were to encounter a powerful extraterrestrial, how would we know they weren't God? How would they understand the question if we asked them?)

I guess the words weren't so small after all...