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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  11:39:43  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
I dunno about everyone else but the whole lets call Skeptics "brights" thing made me want to puke. Of course I am also sick of being lumped in with all the spiritual athiests/agnostics, who believe in all sorts of faith requiring woowoo. So I made a new word which we may use.

anuminous Adj., Without religious or spiritual characteristics.

Numinous has more than one definition of course but it generally means "that which is holy".

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE DEFINITION OF MY WORD DAMNIT, Im sick of all these semantic misunderstandings.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini

Dave W.
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  11:50:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
So would an anuminist be someone whose thinking is anuminous? In other words, what's the noun form?

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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  12:06:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
Right-o, sorry.

Edit: anuminist n., A person whose philosophy has no religious or spiritual traits.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 01/05/2006 12:12:05
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  12:32:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Okay, do you want the bad news?
In the recounting of this consummate story-teller [C.S. Lewis], the Christian worldview emerges as both real and transcendental or Anuminous, whose truth is found in historical evidences and lived experience.
That's sorta the precise opposite of the meaning you're aiming for.

Someone has also already purchased "anuminous.com," though there is no web site there. The other two Google hits on 'anuminous' appear to be typos, where a space is missing in the phrase "a numinous..."

On the up side, anuminists.com is available! Buy it up, quick!

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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  13:26:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
doh, damn google making everything all easy to remember.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Ricky
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  13:55:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Soon enough there will be as many words for "non-believer" as there are for pot.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
Edited by - Ricky on 01/05/2006 13:56:01
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 01/05/2006 :  14:01:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
Is Acrazy taken yet? Just say you are an acrazist.


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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/06/2006 :  21:15:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
I was looking for something which would not make other people want to kill me, but thanks for the effort.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/06/2006 :  21:28:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert

Is Acrazy taken yet? Just say you are an acrazist.
I think 'anuts' is easier to say, just don't slur past the T.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/19/2006 :  22:30:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
quote:
anuminous Adj., Without religious or spiritual characteristics.


quote:
Right-o, sorry.

Edit: anuminist n., A person whose philosophy has no religious or spiritual traits.


It's good, very good. Thank you, BigPapaSmurf. I hereby announce that I am not only an agnostic, but an anuminist as well. (Look, no lynch mob, yet!)

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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pleco
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Posted - 01/20/2006 :  06:54:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert

Is Acrazy taken yet? Just say you are an acrazist.
I think 'anuts' is easier to say, just don't slur past the T.



Yeah, too close to being manipulated to calling us assholes, which I think a lot of people think skeptics are (i.e. know-it-alls)

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Subjectmatter
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Posted - 01/20/2006 :  07:05:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Subjectmatter a Private Message
Acrazy does sound a little too much like 'a crazy' as in 'a crazy person'. Frankly, I don't know why we can't use 'sane', as opposed to creationists, flat-worlders and other fundies who are 'in-sane'.

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pleco
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Posted - 01/20/2006 :  08:29:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Subjectmatter

Acrazy does sound a little too much like 'a crazy' as in 'a crazy person'. Frankly, I don't know why we can't use 'sane', as opposed to creationists, flat-worlders and other fundies who are 'in-sane'.



How about "anti-delusional"?

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Snake
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Posted - 01/29/2006 :  00:56:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Snake's Homepage  Send Snake an ICQ Message  Send Snake a Yahoo! Message Send Snake a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

Right-o, sorry.

Edit: anuminist n., A person whose philosophy has no religious or spiritual traits.



Well! I guess anyone can think up more and more words, makes trying to write and express oneself absorbing. As long as there's a place to find out what the words represent. Although, I find it tedious to look up words.
However there is a word for your description already. One that I use often because it's what I am. A Buddhist. It's an excellent word that fits your definition.
Just thought you'd want to know!
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 01/29/2006 :  03:58:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Subjectmatter

Acrazy does sound a little too much like 'a crazy' as in 'a crazy person'. Frankly, I don't know why we can't use 'sane', as opposed to creationists, flat-worlders and other fundies who are 'in-sane'.

That's only if you pronounce it as A-cray-zee. I pronounce it ah-crah-ZEE. I am an ack-crah-ZIST. Say it right, and people won't know what the hell you mean.


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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

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