(June 4, 2013 at 6:39 am)Brian37 Wrote: Pantheism? Just a another projection of anthropomorphism no different than any other superstition humans have made up.

Pantheism ≠ Panentheism. Really Look it up.

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(June 4, 2013 at 1:35 am)TheBigOhMan Wrote: Well, I'm from Chile and I currently study medicine. Not much to say, I come from a highly religious-like christian forum and given some members from there started visting this site I felt a bit curious and here I am .

I currently am a Christian, though I tend to doubt a lot and play much with panentheism. I like philosophy, specially philosophy of the mind and philosophy of time. And that's the thing.

Nice to have you here.

Thanks everyone for your welcome, and I hope not to get in trouble to soon. I'm just no the "confrontational" type of guy. Anyway, let's see how I roll here .

Welcome, TBOM, I hope you like it here. A thick skin helps.

Quote:Pantheism? Just a another projection of anthropomorphism no different than any other superstition humans have made up.

maybe you are right on the superstition part, but I said Panentheism, not pantheism. They are similar though Panentheism is more woo .

Howdy!

(June 4, 2013 at 4:32 pm)TheBigOhMan Wrote: maybe you are right on the superstition part, but I said Panentheism, not pantheism. They are similar though Panentheism is more woo .

They're actually quite dissimilar... one is subscribing to a belief in multiple/many gods, the other that at least one 'god' is greater than the universe (possibly that the universe is infact a part of the being that is <god>).

Cool, huh?

(June 4, 2013 at 6:01 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:

(June 4, 2013 at 4:32 pm)TheBigOhMan Wrote: maybe you are right on the superstition part, but I said Panentheism, not pantheism. They are similar though Panentheism is more woo .

They're actually quite dissimilar... one is subscribing to a belief in multiple/many gods, the other that at least one 'god' is greater than the universe (possibly that the universe is infact a part of the being that is <god>).

Cool, huh?

I think it may be possible you are confused for the similarity between the words. I checked wikipedia and the belief in multiple Gods is named Polytheism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism ) while Pantheism is the belief that God and the Universe are equilvalent, in a sense while Panentheism is what you described ( God + Universe).

You made me doubt though given that Pantheism sounds more in line with Pantheon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(gods) ) that is a set of Gods in a polytheistic worldview.

I am fresh bait too, so welcome!