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history_of_psychiatry
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25 Jan 2009, 4:56 pm

Are there any pantheists here? Anyone here who believes that existence itself is "god" and that we are a part of the infinite existence the same way that one of your blood cells make up you? Anyone else here who pictures the solar system as a type of "atom" and that no matter how "out" you go or "in" you go you can never reach the beginning or the end? Anyone else here who thinks that everything is "alive" because it makes up a part of the great life force? If you don't know quite what pantheism is, here are a few sites:

http://www.pantheism.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PANTHEISM.html

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25 Jan 2009, 5:07 pm

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

Where are all the Pantheists??

Everywhere, all around us and within us. All of existence is composed of Pantheists.

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25 Jan 2009, 5:15 pm

i'm a pantheist. i believe in pants! :lol:

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25 Jan 2009, 8:07 pm

I'm probably something between a pantheist and an athiest/nontheist/agnostic. I have a sense that there's a deeper meaning to it all, but choose not to apply a religious definition to it. I don't believe in dieties, but would not be surprised if there were a universal consciousness. But who really knows?

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26 Jan 2009, 3:11 pm

count me in

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26 Jan 2009, 3:42 pm

DivaD wrote:

i'm a pantheist. i believe in pants! :lol:

:lol:

But as a Pant-He-Ist, you would have to believe that only the husband should wear the pants in the family, and that the wife should not, right?

:wink:

:wink:

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26 Jan 2009, 7:55 pm

Orwell wrote:

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

Where are all the Pantheists??

Everywhere, all around us and within us. All of existence is composed of Pantheists.

LOL! I guess you're not such a bad guy after all.

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29 Jan 2009, 9:11 am

Sounds close to my current belief, although I didn't know it was called Pantheism.

Does the Gaia theory relate to Pantheism? My belief is that like the blood cells you mention are cells in our being, we are cells in the next level of existence, which is the earth itself. Could this ever be raised from a 'belief' to being scientifically provable? I don't know but it at least seems possible, whereas for all other religious beliefs are forever unprovable.

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29 Jan 2009, 9:22 am

ManErg wrote:

Sounds close to my current belief, although I didn't know it was called Pantheism.

Does the Gaia theory relate to Pantheism? My belief is that like the blood cells you mention are cells in our being, we are cells in the next level of existence, which is the earth itself. Could this ever be raised from a 'belief' to being scientifically provable? I don't know but it at least seems possible, whereas for all other religious beliefs are forever unprovable.

Gaia is related to pantheism, in spirit at least. It turns nature itself into some god-like entity. It is conceivable although not proven empirically that earth is an organism of some sort. The idea is not contradictory on its face. I don't believe it myself, but I cannot prove that it is inherently absurd either.

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29 Jan 2009, 9:27 am

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

Where are all the Pantheists??

Where are they?
Why, they're all around you!
In your desk, in your chair,
yes, even in your poo.

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29 Jan 2009, 6:02 pm

Ragtime wrote:

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

Where are all the Pantheists??

Where are they?
Why, they're all around you!
In your desk, in your chair,
yes, even in your poo.

What a way to copy what Orwell said.

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