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As we discussed in the section, most of us seem to exist in some sort of hybrid belief state between foundational and narrative stories. Agnosticism seems to me to be particularly a belief system that revolves around this hybrid "doublethink", again to reference Orwell, in that to be agnostic it seems to me that you have to almost admit how unsure you are about the foundational story of a grand creator, but you're not necessarily objecting to it.

As an atheist, while we were discussing I assumed that my thoughts and beliefs would fall naturally into the narrative category, but the more I think about it, the less this is so. While I don't believe in a supreme creator being, for some aspects of my life I believe in something similar to Fate. Yes, Fate with a capital because sometimes I feel more ruled by her than by myself. The aspects that Fate rules are (to me) typically relationship turns in either romantic or friendship relationships, because it feels like in so many of those that people are either together or not because they are somehow guided to that point by Fate.

For the other parts of my life, I am perfectly happy to admit that coincidence and chance rules me. I don't think I have a higher purpose, I don't need to have a direction. I'm happy to live my life without some greater plan than the ones wrought by me.

So, this dual belief in Fate and coincidence may seem a little contradictory, but thinking of it in terms of a blending of foundational and non-foundational thoughts seems understandable and comfortable to me now that we've discussed it in class. I don't have to examine my own belief system too deeply, or examine it for flaws because I know they're there and that doesn't particularly matter to me.