Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 19, 2011 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2011 at 4:20 am by Darth.)
DP and Cinjin. Questions:
Agnostic deism: So it's a gut/intuition/instinct thing, I get that. And you're agnostic in that you conceed we can't (yet?) know. It would then be reasonable to assume that we can't know the attributes of the deity either. But again, the belief, what do you guys believe is the case in regards to its power (infinite, or only powerful enough to create this universe), location (watching the universe, gone off elsewhere...) and it's motives? Or at least your speculations on what you think is most likely, assuming deism of some sort is true.
What are you open to in terms agnosticism and belief in regards to the more specific variants like Polydeism, pandeism, panendeism polypandeism & polypanendiesm...? (pandeism = the creator deity created the universe by becoming it, pan- = the whole (nature/universe); -en- means the whole universe, plus some; poly- of course means multiple deities; so polypanendeism would be the belief that multiple creator deities created the universe by becoming it, but not entirely, there was x amount of the deities which didn't become the universe)*. I personally found panendeism and polypanendeism to be the most convincing (still do, but don't believe it. Agnostic adeist [and apandeist...] gnostic atheist)
Hows acceptance of deists wherever it is that you are? Better than atheists no doubt, but still...
*explanations won't be for DP and Cinjin I wouldn't think.
What's you're thoughts on pantheism?
edit: Sorry for misspelling your name =(. If it makes you feel better I never remember anybodies name, so to have remembered it well enough to have misspelled it is actually a great honour!
Agnostic deism: So it's a gut/intuition/instinct thing, I get that. And you're agnostic in that you conceed we can't (yet?) know. It would then be reasonable to assume that we can't know the attributes of the deity either. But again, the belief, what do you guys believe is the case in regards to its power (infinite, or only powerful enough to create this universe), location (watching the universe, gone off elsewhere...) and it's motives? Or at least your speculations on what you think is most likely, assuming deism of some sort is true.
What are you open to in terms agnosticism and belief in regards to the more specific variants like Polydeism, pandeism, panendeism polypandeism & polypanendiesm...? (pandeism = the creator deity created the universe by becoming it, pan- = the whole (nature/universe); -en- means the whole universe, plus some; poly- of course means multiple deities; so polypanendeism would be the belief that multiple creator deities created the universe by becoming it, but not entirely, there was x amount of the deities which didn't become the universe)*. I personally found panendeism and polypanendeism to be the most convincing (still do, but don't believe it. Agnostic adeist [and apandeist...] gnostic atheist)
Hows acceptance of deists wherever it is that you are? Better than atheists no doubt, but still...
*explanations won't be for DP and Cinjin I wouldn't think.
What's you're thoughts on pantheism?
edit: Sorry for misspelling your name =(. If it makes you feel better I never remember anybodies name, so to have remembered it well enough to have misspelled it is actually a great honour!
