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RSwanson1972
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I'm a Pantheist,
and all other things. I'm
the reciepe of nature
V.S. nurture and/or evolution.
Name: Robert
Age: 36
Pantheism is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the Universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence, and the Universe (the sum total of all that is, was, and shall be) is represented in the theological principle of an abstract 'god' rather than a personal, creative deity or deities of any kind. This is the key feature which distinguishes them from panentheists and pandeists. As such, although many religions may claim to hold pantheistic elements, they are more commonly panentheistic or pandeistic in nature.


The term "pantheist" from which the word "pantheism" is derived—was purportedly first used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work, Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist. However, the concept has been discussed as far back as the time of the philosophers of Ancient Greece, by Thales, Parmenides and Heraclitus. The Jewish backgrounds for pantheism may reach as far back as the Torah itself in its account of creation in Genesis and its earlier prophetic material in which clearly "acts of nature" [such as floods, storms, volcanoes, etc.] are all identified as "God's hands" through personification idioms, thus explaining the open references to the concept in both New Testament and Kabbalistic literature.

In 1785 a major controversy began between Friedrich Jacobi and Moses Mendelssohn, which eventually involved many important people of the time. Jacobi claimed that Lessing's pantheism was materialistic in that it thought of all Nature and God as one extended substance. For Jacobi, this was the result of the Enlightenment's devotion to reason and it would lead to atheism. Mendelssohn disagreed by asserting that pantheism was the same as theism.
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The Universe...Take a tour
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Take a tour starting from earth and travel billions of light year into the cosmos ...
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The Cosmos. We are Nothing! Take this small tour.
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Deep Into the Cosmos with the hubble Deep field
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Life in the Universe
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[TRANSLATED] Life in the Universe
[TRANSLATED] Life in the Universe
It speaks for it self. You'll just have to watch it.
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Bible = Astrology part 1, 2 of 4
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The Bible is nothing more then a Astrotheological Literary Hybrid. A must see vide...
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Bible = Astrology part 1, 3 of 4
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Bible = Astrology part 1, 4 of 4
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Religulous 2 0f 10
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[TRANSLATED] Religulous 2 0f 10
[TRANSLATED] Religulous 2 0f 10
Movie/Documentary with Bill Maher
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Religulous 10 of 10
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[TRANSLATED] Religulous 10 of 10
[TRANSLATED] Religulous 10 of 10
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Rewriting the Book on Probability
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Discusses how I think probability should be interpreted and calculated.
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The Infinite Universe
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[TRANSLATED] The Infinite Universe
[TRANSLATED] The Infinite Universe
A simplified illustration of the way I visualize the universe.
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Re: 10 Questions every Atheist must answer
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Dirty Little Secrets of the Bible
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Things they don't teach you in Sunday School. Remixed and extended version.
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Roswell Alien Autopsy
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[TRANSLATED] Roswell Alien Autopsy
[TRANSLATED] Roswell Alien Autopsy
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Independents Day
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[TRANSLATED] Independents Day
[TRANSLATED] Independents Day
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Sacred Geometry - Part 1
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Animal Cell
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[TRANSLATED] Animal Cell
[TRANSLATED] Animal Cell
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