Tuesday, April 21, 2009

An Odd Question

If someone were to describe his/herself as an allegorical agnostic, what would that mean?

3 comments:

Queen of Arts and England said...

You know, I've tried to figure it out, but I just can't. Good luck with that.

Eriol said...

I'm on the allegorical side of things, since humans have built up an incredible wealth of symbols to explain life over thousands of years. Agnostic, no, but the question still interests me. It seems to me someone who takes comfort in symbols, but doesn't know if it leads to anything divine.

Meanwhile, my current problem is with English profs. I can't get an A from them to save my life. And I don't know why. I lose points for doing things that I thought I was doing right, and then I'm not convinced that they're right in their criticism. Not that I'm perfect, most A papers are crap.

Queen of Arts and England said...

Ah English. I think English classes at bigger schools aren't as amazing as ones at smaller schools. They need to keep their opinions/lit. crit. views out of grading. Really.

On the agnostic/allegorical question, that is the wall I kept on running into. There sort of needs to be something to represent, and in the case of all of allegorists that I can think of, it is the Divine, so that doesn't fit with being agnostic.