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- _niko0
Happy
Consciously ignorant
- canoe0
unconventional
anti establishment
nonconformist
for starts
- canoe0
A child of Carl Jung...
Jungian
- canoe0
utopian ideologue
- _niko0
Zen™
- canoe0
^ True.
A buddhist.
- Fax_Benson0
rationalist
empiricist
- mikotondria30
There isn't a word for this.
You'll have to use several words or illustrate it.
- CygnusZero40
^ Yeah, I'm just looking for colorful descriptive words to use, rather than just explain it in long boring plain English sentences. Some of these words will help to shorten up what I'm trying to get at and also make me look smarter. :)
I already knew a lot of these words, but some of this stuff I didn't know about, like Carl Jung, which is why I asked here. Lot's of different types of people here with knowledge of all sort of things.
- http://en.wikipedia.…severian
- Yeah dissident actually popped in my head earlier.CygnusZero4
- dude, don't make it boring, make it awesomecanoe
- jaylarson0
Freethinker
- CygnusZero40
Ok I have a question. This is sort of on the flip side of what I was getting at, which was more of a positive view on things. Babylon is described as any rich and magnificent city believed to be a place of excessive luxury and wickedness.
If someone views the concepts of taking political sides and trying to force others to see things their way, which also applies to religion of course, if you perceive that as being something that's negative, is it right to say that those people are from Babylon, or belong there? Or is that more for people who are actually sinners?
I don't really know exactly how the name Babylon is normally used so I'm not sure that a person who doesn't like these sort of people would ever say they belong in Babylon.
- bliznutty0
I believe you are looking for 'Agnostic'
- CygnusZero40
Agnostic is a great one which I'm going to use since it applies not to those that don't believe in god, but rather those that just aren't sure. People that are sort of in the middle.
I was hoping there was a word or 2 that was like this, but no specific to religion. People that are in the middle of politics and religion. More concerned with the greater good and progress rather than picking sides, pointing fingers, trying to understand both sides, and even agrees with them on certain subjects.
I know this is a pretty deep thing and cant be described with just one pretty or interesting word, but I wanted to check anyway.
- might as well throw 'progressive' in the mix while you're at it.canoe
- bliznutty0
Agnostic definitely doesn't just apply to religion - As a software engineer I use the word Agnostic everyday in describing decoupled architecture - what one system knows (or cares) of the other could mean whether it is agnostic or not to the other systems..
- randommail0
OBJECTIVE
- doesnotexist0
ayn rand says it's objectivism.
- fresnobob0
indifferent
inert
languor
topor
- SteveJobs0
good candidates from thesaurus.com:
mpartial, neutral, and unbiased
- dbloc0
togglers