A lot of people on this website (me included) say that we don't have a real religion, because we feel it limits spiritual growth. If you only look at one side of something, you will never learn anymore about that something than the side you look at. Anywho, I was just wondering, for fun you know, if we were to name this belief, what would the name be?
Open Minded Belief System? OMBS. Like bombs without the first B?
Keep in mind, this post is just for fun. Not really for debate. But I'd like some replies. ^.^
'Agnostic' comes to mind.
"a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. " sourced from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agnostic
-AM
Well, I guess it would depend. Is it a belief system? Because to me being openminded to whatever comes along can become a belief system but doesn't necessarily make it so, if one contines to stay open to changing it.
For example, I have a belief system now, and it is the one that works for me. I give it a name, (Panantheism) but I can go on for hours about some detail of it that I don't agree with it. So I don't know if it is really a belief system, because I don't necessarily believe in some of it, but it makes sense to me now. However, I feel that some other parts of my belief system are necessary to my survival here, but that's not a belief either- that's closer to a fear.
So it's not that simple, is it?
:?
Unknowable perhaps? 8-)
-AM
Ha ha more like- unfathomable, sometimes. :lol:
Unknowable is so-permanent....
Touche.
-AM
^.^ I was thinking about it, and I thought Possibilitiesm would be a good one. As in, admitting to the possibility of anything.
What about the possibility that nothing is possible?
-AM
Exactly! Possibilitiesm allows for the possibility that nothing exists, as well. That perhaps all is a hallucination. It's not agnosticism, because agnostics say that something is out there, they just don't know what. Ya?
Sounds a lot like solipsism.
-AM
But Posibilitiesm is easier to say. ^.^
Quote from: Embodied Words on November 21, 2007, 20:02:41
^.^ I was thinking about it, and I thought Possibilitiesm would be a good one. As in, admitting to the possibility of anything.
Wow, that's goood! Possibilitieism. But, then you have to have a companion or maybe a main character born from a virgin and the Savior. Hmmmm.
I know! Chance from the land of Probably.
::blink:: You have successfully beffudled me, sir.
Holy Chance, Batman!
Doesn't really work for me...
Quote from: CFTraveler on November 20, 2007, 12:57:56
Well, I guess it would depend. Is it a belief system? Because to me being openminded to whatever comes along can become a belief system but doesn't necessarily make it so, if one contines to stay open to changing it.
For example, I have a belief system now, and it is the one that works for me. I give it a name, (Panantheism) but I can go on for hours about some detail of it that I don't agree with it. So I don't know if it is really a belief system, because I don't necessarily believe in some of it, but it makes sense to me now. However, I feel that some other parts of my belief system are necessary to my survival here, but that's not a belief either- that's closer to a fear.
So it's not that simple, is it?
:?
Hello CFT,
I don't want too go to far off the lighter side of this thread, but I was curious about your interest in panentheism. I guess if I had to label a belief system for myself at this point in time, it would be panentheism, although like you, I don't agree with some of what panen. writers espouse. Basically I like it because the idea is that "God is the universe -- plus some." Pantheists simply equate creation with God or Mind or whatever you want to call Spirit, but the panenthesitic idea that "Spirit is even more than that" appeals to me more. The Universe is so complex I guess I just like the mystery of the idea that God is the universe plus more than we can fathom.
DH
Quote from: DH on December 17, 2007, 23:50:39
Hello CFT,
I don't want too go to far off the lighter side of this thread, but I was curious about your interest in panentheism. I guess if I had to label a belief system for myself at this point in time, it would be panentheism, although like you, I don't agree with some of what panen. writers espouse. Basically I like it because the idea is that "God is the universe -- plus some." Pantheists simply equate creation with God or Mind or whatever you want to call Spirit, but the panenthesitic idea that "Spirit is even more than that" appeals to me more. The Universe is so complex I guess I just like the mystery of the idea that God is the universe plus more than we can fathom.
DH
Well, for now anyway, my view on things is that in my point of view, God has to be more than 'what is', because time and space is a limitation, and 'being' is a temporary (or temporal) condition, and that is something that God, by my definition of God, cannot have and be God. A God, yes, but not God. And panentheism is open-ended enough for me not to be too bogged down with rules as to what is and isn't. So that's about the closest idea I have about what I think God to be. Or not to be.... :-D .
Quote from: CFTraveler on December 18, 2007, 10:34:24
Well, for now anyway, my view on things is that in my point of view, God has to be more than 'what is', because time and space is a limitation, and 'being' is a temporary (or temporal) condition, and that is something that God, by my definition of God, cannot have and be God. A God, yes, but not God. And panentheism is open-ended enough for me not to be too bogged down with rules as to what is and isn't. So that's about the closest idea I have about what I think God to be. Or not to be.... :-D .
.
Yeah, I can relate. The seminary I went to in the 70's was the hotbed of Christian panenthesim. After 30 years it still works pretty good for me, as far as theological systems go. DH