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 8/9/2010

Verse:
〖卦语〗平地起波澜，所求事日难；谈笑终有忌，同心事览欢。
Explanation:
〖释义〗过多的水，忽然向你涌你，伤害你命运占优势的"火"。汪洋大水很快熄灭炉中之火，那炼的事就相当困难了。 水，也象征着一种以言主语为手段的阴险，中伤。比如谣言，诽谤，诬告，小报告，篡改，证等等，所以，你在发表正式讲话和与人鉴定合约的时候，一定谨慎小心。态度要严隶，认真。少去充当媒人和保人，以免惹来麻烦和烦恼，在与人谈笑之间，也不要过于轻松，须保持几分警惕性，尽管对方不是与你追求同一个目标。你也许会在无意之间，泄露自己机密，自己都没有察觉。也许会在一句笑话时，得罪一个不能得罪的人物。 同心事，是指相类似的事物。相同的事例中，你加以观察和研究，就会得到宝贵的经验和教训，然后具体分析，便能办好自己的事。将被动局面完全扭转过来。
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