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==Re: God==
I read your addition to the [[God]] article (subsequently reverted by [[User:Brian0918|Brian0918]]):

*The '''[[Why bother? position]]''' argues that the existence of God is not important. It asks the question - Why would you want to believe in God?

It may have some merit, but you'll probably have to work on it to make it seem like something other than a sophmore's poke at the establishment. It would help if you had some philosophical jargon, if there were a philosopher you could cite... It's not really an argument against God's existence, rather a meta-questioning calling the entire enterprise into question. It might grow out of an agnostic position rather than an atheist's.

Brian0918 has left me a message explaining why 'e deleted your work. 'E has a point, but only half a point... 'E thinks what you added is your own, original thought. What 'e doesn't seem to know is that there are others out there who have expounded on what you are pointing out. The issue is formulating the information in a manner so that 'e can't delete it without being accused of [[POV]]. Brian0918 seems to be an upstanding wikipedian and will uphold our NPOV values if we do.

This would necessitate a revision of that portion of the organization of the God article. Under the heading "The Existence of God" there would need to be a new section devoted to the Agnostic position. Right now there are Theistic, Atheistic and Fideistic arguments. The Agnostic could/should be added. Then we'd need to figure how it should be arranged to avoid POV issues. If you are interested in working on this with me, leave me a message. [[User:Emyth|Emyth]] 17:22, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

This morning I remembered the term for the "Why bother?" position - it's the "Apatheist" position ("apathy" + "theist") This [[neologism]] may still be a lay-person's term or in the realm of folk theology/philosophy, but it is being forwarded in a serious manner. I'll see if I can remember where I ran across it... (Google helps...) It was an Atlantic Monthly article from May 2003 by [[Jonathan Rauch]]. The article has been picked up by [[Beliefnet]], and various dictionary style websites have entries for the term. (There is even already an entry in the [[Wiktionary]]... ) I don't know if this is the ''fons et origo'' of the term, but it just may be.

So, having laid Brian0918's criticism of your entry to rest (well, almost...) on with writing it up encyclopedically. [[User:Emyth|Emyth]] 11:23, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

== Hypothyroidism ==

Please do not insert unformatted external links in articles. In the text body, footnote format[http://www.google.com] is used, and in "external links", a description is preferred [http://en.wikipedia.org like this]. [[User:Jfdwolff|JFW]] | [[User_talk:Jfdwolff|T@lk]] 22:26, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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