• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. Bear Wild

    Free Will No Longer

    So for you are you saying god is the universe itself as in pantheism?
  2. Bear Wild

    Free Will No Longer

    Without any form of free will a monotheistic god would then planned for not only every good thing but also every bad thing to happen. Thus all the innocents murdered was planned and orchestrated by that god.
  3. Bear Wild

    Free Will No Longer

    I agree with you. We control very little according and most of our decisions are directly influenced by the wyrd. Yet their is a potentiality to make a change even if it is extremely small. Norse myths give a picture of the world where the Norns have woven the patterns and we have no control...
  4. Bear Wild

    Democrats only: Are there lessons to be learned for team Harris?

    Honestly? The democratic party comes across as too elitist and disconnected from the general public. It presents itself as the party that knows best backed by science and logic. This may work for well educated people but to most especially rural or those feeling disenfranchised it appears so...
  5. Bear Wild

    Hey guys

    The void is the potential of the world. This is best depicted in the Norse creation myth where Ginnungagap which is the abyss is the potential between the two opposites of fire as Muspelheim and ice as Niflheim. It is in this void where the two opposites meet that our world was created. This can...
  6. Bear Wild

    Atheism needs create Church for atheists!

    Actually one group did although not specifically a church. They call themselves science based paganism. The felt that ritual based in scientific knowledge would help foster connection and for those attending the find connection among others that are atheists but want a community that they...
  7. Bear Wild

    The Rise of Monotheism: How Did One God Become the Norm?

    Italy and Greece are both considered a part of the "western" world even though they have connections with the Mediterranean. Rome and Greece both influenced all of the other European cultures and helped shaped what we consider as the "Western Culture". The colonial cultures that developed in the...
  8. Bear Wild

    The Rise of Monotheism: How Did One God Become the Norm?

    You must be referring to Niflheim and Muspelheim which created the gods and goddesses then. Interesting video.
  9. Bear Wild

    The Rise of Monotheism: How Did One God Become the Norm?

    Which god is the one god? There are so many to chose from.
  10. Bear Wild

    The Rise of Monotheism: How Did One God Become the Norm?

    The western journey looks like this - many gods and spirits within the landscape. Many gods and spirits but only one correct one removed from the land and placed into a supernatural world, Removal of all the other gods and spirits with only one god for everyone that is supernatural and all...
  11. Bear Wild

    Contacting the dead for non Pagans

    It is important because the word has become associated with only one god when there are so many which occupy so many different niches within our complex world. Each god has their own context in which they exist and it suppresses the goddess. The use of "GOD" itself creates a conflict for anyone...
  12. Bear Wild

    Contacting the dead for non Pagans

    Yeah but that god was mistaken and is not the god of gods. He must have a name at some time because even the Abrahamic religions were once polytheistic.
  13. Bear Wild

    Contacting the dead for non Pagans

    They really need to use their God's actual name. It gets very confusing when you just say god. Which one of the many are you talking about. Why not just name the god you want to refer to rather than the generic term God.
  14. Bear Wild

    Which non-God beings do you believe in

    There is no supernatural. The gods and goddesses as well as all of the other beings are immanent in the world and do not belong some supernatural world.
  15. Bear Wild

    Which non-God beings do you believe in

    It has been mentioned already but to give another example of the problem of the term non-gods. In Norse religion you have elves, trolls, giants, land wights as well as gods and goddesses but distinguishing the gods and goddesses from the giants for example is problematic. Odin is the son of a...
  16. Bear Wild

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    Is this your definition of consciousness? It is not difficult to define consciousness. It is the interaction of the brain and the body, between others and the surrounding environment. That is the resources in humans that interact to form consciousness but not a definition of what it is. I have...
  17. Bear Wild

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    I have never advocated pseudoscience. Ever!!@!@!!
  18. Bear Wild

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    From the article!!!! These are not idle concerns. Articles that promote plant neurobiology thinking are increasingly finding their way into respectable scientific journals—even top-tier journals (Calvo and Friston 2017; Tang and Marshall 2018; Baluška and Manusco 2020; Calvo et al. 2020). This...
  19. Bear Wild

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    Because this article represents the same potential foolishness as animals do not use tools. I used that as an obvious error that was considered absolute in the past. So what. It is their intention to stop the "silly" research into plant consciousness considering it to be flawed thinking. How...
  20. Bear Wild

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    I read the article and it is fundamentally incorrect. We do not know if consciousness requires a nervous system because it is a phenomenal experience and we cannot communicate to other animals even to know if they have that phenomenal experience. A. Plants do not show proactive behavior. -...
Top