Induction

The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning “without, not,” as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gn?, “knowledge,” which was used by early Christian writers to mean “higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things”; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as “Gnostics” a group of his fellow intellectuals—“ists,” as he called them— who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a “man without a rag of a label to cover himself with,” Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Sign of 27/4/2010

Verse:
卦语：月儿升东 清光可挹 万里无云 海天一碧
Explanation:
释义：签诗为我们描绘出一幅海上生明月的幽静，清明图景。 挹（ＹＩ）的意思是舀。月光如水，仿佛可以舀，那正是将近午夜之时。 这种环境和时刻，正是你行动的最佳条件，你如今正临太阴星高照，求名求利诸事皆遂心愿，正是心想事成。你追求自己的前程最好离家远行。在远方会适时遇上女贵人，抑或得贤妻之助。虽然有些意外事故，但均有惊无险，没有特大的灾难。但对于女性来说，恐怕会有些妇科方面的病情发生，如果在这半年内生孩子的话，需要特别注意保健，防止意外。每逢当月二十六日（农历）月黄纸牌位，上写月宫太阴皇后星君，并燃点七枝烛，朝正西方虔诚膜拜，以求大吉。
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