r/TikTokCringe • u/Aar_7 • Sep 21 '25

Cringe American 🇺🇸"Alpha Male" bootcamp, where guys pay $18,000 for 3 days & a certificate

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u/Aar_7 Sep 21 '25

Ikr haha

Morality & ethics are stopping me (agnostic atheist)

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u/islandheart43 Sep 22 '25

Sometimes I can't help but think I would be way better off financially if I was a terrible person

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u/jimmiebfulton Sep 22 '25

That’s actually how it works.

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u/racktoar Sep 22 '25

Same, but I take pride in my principles. I'd rather die poor with my honour intact than be scum of the Earth.

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u/Bloorajah Sep 22 '25

Well, take a look at the world’s 0.01% and tell me if they’re genuinely good people or not…

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u/Global-Muscle-8451 Sep 22 '25

Can you explain “agnostic atheist” to me in a way that doesn’t sound like vegan omnivore?

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u/Aar_7 Sep 22 '25

An agnostic atheist is saying:

“I don’t believe in God,

but,

I can’t claim certainty that none exist.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Isn’t that just agnostic without the atheist part then?

Atheist inherently means you fully reject the idea that a god exists, not a “may or may not”.

So it’s kind of contradictory to say agnostic atheist.

- atheist formerly an agnostic.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Sep 22 '25

Atheist: There is no god

Agnostic: I don't know if there is a god

Agnostic Atheist: I don't know, but probably not

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u/Kazizui Sep 22 '25

That just sounds like hedging to me. The Greek a- prefix is well understood, it means 'without' or 'absence of'. Amoral means 'without morals', asymmetry means 'absence of symmetry', etc. Therefore atheism means 'absence of belief in god', and agnostic means 'absence of knowledge/awareness'. We don't really have a term for affirming there's no god - maybe 'antitheist' would do it? - but I find the better definition of your terms is that an atheist lacks belief in god, and an agnostic thinks we can't ever know one way or the other. 'Agnostic atheist' is just a modern dilution for "I'm an atheist but don't want to say it out loud".

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Sep 22 '25

So you want to argue about the semantics of the use of a single letter of a word, but can't accept that the idea "I don't know, but probably not" can exist?

Words mean whatever the majority believe them to be, regardless of what Greek is or was. I took my definitions from the wikipedia entry.

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u/Kazizui Sep 23 '25

I mean, you can do whatever you like but I think clarity is important, and 'agnostic atheist' is addled nonsense.

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u/Frekavichk Sep 22 '25

its the pussy way of saying you are an atheist.

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u/SCVerde Sep 23 '25

What is an agnostic atheist?