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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread "cheerful agnostic" #145441 07/26/2005 1:00 AM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1 nancy.02138 stranger nancy.02138 stranger Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1 does anyone know the origin of this phrase? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "cheerful agnostic" #145442 07/26/2005 2:54 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass has anyone else ever heard this phrase? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "cheerful agnostic" #145443 07/26/2005 3:04 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont heh. I got 86 googlits. the earliest reference seems to be a statement made by Ralph Vaughan-Williams' wife about his religious beliefs. (or lack thereof...) Vaughan Williams did not possess a conventional faith or belief. The son of an Anglican clergyman and a strict Christian mother, he managed to develop a deep-seated scepticism from an early age. As a Cambridge undergraduate he strode into Trinity College Hall demanding: ‘Who believes in God nowadays, I should like to know?’1; and according to Ursula Vaughan Williams: ‘He was an atheist during his later years at Charterhouse and at Cambridge, though he later drifted into a cheerful agnosticism: he was never a professing Christian.’ http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67503-N.asp welcome, nancy! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "cheerful agnostic" #145444 07/26/2005 3:18 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass perhaps made current by an interview with British actor Tim Curry? "He spoke of his childhood as the son of a Methodist preacher and a student at a Methodist school. He described both as being very liberal and relaxed about religion. Consequently, Curry became what he calls a “cheerful agnostic” and remains one to this day." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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