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Eh, I'm not too keen on all this portrayal of the agnostic as a know-nothing, or as someone who believes in god, but isn't sure of the nature of god. I don't believe nor disbelieve. I think that either view would be myopic. I lean towards the nonexistence of god, but I see a sort of supreme being in a pantheistic sense. In this, I mean that all is god, and god is all. Instead of there being some abstract guy above the clouds, maybe "god" is the earth, the water, all the stuff in time and space: the universe.
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See, despite saying that you lean towards non-existance, you also lean towards belief in an abstract form of God. I think that the basic, conversation definition is that an agnostic believes they don't know the nature of god, but generally believe there probably is something; an atheist leans towards non-existence, but doesn't completely rule out the possiblity of some form of god.
I'm a technical agnostic, but I consider myself an atheist.