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From: andrel
Date: 9 Jul 2009 16:45:27
Message: <4A5656E5.1010309@hotmail.com>
On 9-7-2009 22:41, andrel wrote:
> On 9-7-2009 21:52, Darren New wrote:
>> andrel wrote:
>>> BTW is there in English a word to describe someone who thinks there 
>>> is a higher power but does not know what exactly? 
>>
>> A deist?
>>
> That implies god, I was looking for something even more general. 
> Something that does not even imply a personality and includes options 
> like 'the sum of all spirits of all living beings' or whatever.

Tried my usual approach of looking it up on the Dutch wikipedia and then 
switching to English (should have done that before asking). Guess what, 
I end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ietsism .


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