I saw that a topic had been made regarding Atheism, then one about theism. So I figured I'd devote some time to pantheism. What are your thoughts on the subject? Are any of you here even pantheistic? Personally, I find the find theistic thought to be hard enough to swallow. Pantheism is just.... I don't even know lol.
For those of you that don't know what pantheism is... It's basically the belief that the Universe IS God. Rather than God creating the universe, and there being a separation, pantheism advocates that there is no separation. And that God and the Universe are one in the same. It literally translates to God is All. <--That of course being a very crude summary.
What are your thoughts?
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That kind of scares me a bit.
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I think it sounds nice.
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I think it's a bunch of hippy crap. but after some intelligent thought, it's still pretty much just a feel-good thing to believe.
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Hmm. How do I get myself one of them fancy avatars
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It's stupid IMO.
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Quote: from Stormblazer at 3:54 pm on Nov. 10, 2009
It only makes sense if you consider the universe as a massive neural network style system. Even then, it may not be relevant enough to consider.
Like a beehive?
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It always existed. Because God always existed. They are the same.
I'm not a pantheist, nor a theist.
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It always existed. Because God always existed. They are the same.
I'm not a pantheist, nor a theist.
So the Universe is infinite?
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