Word: agnosticism
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Now my faith is collapsing, largely because Palm founder and Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins has converted to the new religion of thumb keyboards. You have probably seen these things on Blackberry e-mail pagers; they are tiny raised keys in regular qwerty order, the whole keyboard not more than...
His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject?...
AN: The students always ask me, “What do you think?” I tell them that I’ll answer that after their last paper’s in. My approach has always been to be the objective dispassionate observer, and I try to establish...
For Mattie J. Germer ’03, that was exactly the matter. Raised Lutheran, she had briefly considered converting to Catholicism in high school, but eventually abandoned the idea. She stopped going to church completely and considered herself an agnostic. “I thought religion was a sham...
Last year Germer took a religion elective with Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Master of Lowell House, where Germer lives. Though she says her initial motivation was to get to know her House Master and to enroll in a “cushy elective,?...