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Consider a three-omni God as not an entity to be considered as existing or not, but a mindset. What if someone thought they were all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing? They would be impenetrably stupid, incapable of ever realizing any error. We would call such a person completely insane with delusions of grandeur. However God is promoted as a role-model for many: to try to be Godly is to be good. The Christian Bible is a recipe for such a disaster.

Now consider an agnostic god who knows nothing but questions everything: an omniquerent god. Questions have little to do directly with the acceptance or rejection of propositional statements; questions are movements of questionability: quests. What is brought into questionability by conscious experience are elements of experience that are strangified in respect to existing understanding, unexpected and unaccountable to the automatable and causally predictable. An omniquerent god is in a constant state of surprise at everything. Questions ultimately arise from the initial experience of "WTF?" from an encounter with the weird.

From this understanding agnosticism turns from "the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable" to a positive thesis of valuing questionability. It presents a view of the querent as an adventurer of experiences and an explorer of creativity; consciousness is a process of discovery.

This is the most brilliant example of this "questology" I've found, presented as a dialogue between a "question-collector" and an "answer-collector": http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

Carl Sagan also presents this agnostic spirituality as a positive thesis without talking about not-God or not-whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLigBYhdUDs

Due to hyperpolitics many atheists are focused on not-God, but behind the politics and beyond atheism is a spirituality that speaks of the value of human inquiry that often leads to such a position.

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What is there to discover?

Reminds me of a Cioran sentiment. Something like:

>Reality doesn't deserve the flattery of science.

>> No.13900932

>>13900305
>What is there to discover?
Something worthy of exploration, which makes value a field of experimentation. Love is a very promising possibility, and has many forms. Can you think of anything better to do?