Agnostic or Atheist?

So this is how I have chosen to spend Christmas Eve...hopefully some of you find this as humorous as me. 

I started thinking tonight...you know, "what am I? technically?"  I had to find out which one I am classified as because I hear people say they are one or the other and most of the time I don't trust that the person is really smart enough to know the difference...especially since I didn't know....UNTIL NOW!!

SO...lots of people identify themselves as 'agnostics' meaning that they are doubters in the existence of god.  Someone like this (like me) holds this position because REASON compels them to doubt god's existence; however, even though REASON causes this person to doubt the claims of theists REASON also keeps this person open-minded to the possibility that they may in fact be wrong.  Now, the word "theism" simply means a belief in a 'god'.  So, in turn, someone who doubts a belief in a 'god' is an "A-theist." Atheist!

Apparently many people misinterpret what an Atheist actually is and that is why it has become more of a common practice for truly Atheist people to say and believe they are Agnostic.  So what does Agnostic really mean?  WELL...I found that gnosticism is the belief that a person can possess knowledge about a 'god.'  So to be an agnostic actually has more to do with a person having no possibility of obtaining knowledge about 'god' than having something to do with belief in a god's existence.  And actually there are AGNOSTIC CHRISTIANS...that's right!!...People who believe in god and Jesus but also believe that it is impossible for a human being to actually obtain concrete knowledge about a god. 

SO apparently what I am, technically, is an Agnostic Atheist...through REASON I doubt god's existence, but I am not ruling out the possibility (however slight I believe that possibility to be) that I am indeed wrong...and I also cannot see how it is possible for a human being to have any sort of concrete knowledge about a god's existence...THEREFORE...Agnostic Atheist.

WOW...I really applaud anyone who made it through this whole thing; but, really is a question that had been bugging me and I had to put a bit of research into finding all of this out...So not only do I applaud your dedication to my opinion but I appreciate it as well because this actually took me a while.

A very Merry Happy Holidays to all.

~The Man in the Cave

Existence (Poem)

Limbs planted,

they are veins in the ground

pumping life and some throbbing

out,

still attached.

And with all your strength reaching up

a fall will bring you back down

and in suffocating realization

myself along with you;

but even in a tired state

you allow my breadth--

and I remember holding

your arm connecting

the dots from freckle to freckle,

each separated by pores…

In this remembrance,

out of jealousy

I wish to be an angel,

so that in an instant,

like a trick

I could manage

meaning.

***Sorry it has been a while but life has been a little hectic and a bit overwhelming; but, I am over that exhausting hump that I was creating for myself and I will get back to posting some poems and thoughts.

I'm trying to capture some feeling of regret in this poem...(like regretting not writing and posting a bunch of thought cleansing poetry for the past month and a half.)...Let me know if you feel it.

~The Man in the Cave