Mackerni
Libertarian Unitarian
I said it was going to come. Well it's now here, mother****ers.
I talk about this a lot in this form, because I'm very passionate about this concept, or theology.
"What is "pantheosis"?"
Deconstruct the word. Pan = all. Like pansexual (finds everybody to be sexual), pantheist (all is God). Theosis is actually termed by Greek theologians but hijacked by Christians to simply state the being that exist when one becomes divine. That, the essence of being is to become one with the father. Greek mythology and philosophers separate themselves from this Christian-viewpoint by calling it, "apotheosis" rather than, "theosis". The only real difference between apotheosis is that apo- prefix means the separation thereof. So, Apotheosis loosely means, "The separation, and becoming thereof, divine." Whereas theosis, a Christian word, just means, "Becoming divine."
"Mack, you really haven't explained pantheosis, just terms related to it."
Pantheosis is not a real word! I invented it! I admit it! Well, just consider pan- meaning "all" and theosis, meaning, "becoming divine". Combine the two together and you get, "All becoming divine." That is the basis for my entire spirituality. I'm an agnostic atheist, but if I were ever to believe in a God (if there was evidence for such), I would immediately believe that the God I saw became God through a process of natural selection. In fact, I will go one step further: The Theory of Evolution is Proof of Pantheosis. Now, it might seem to you that the theory of evolution is proof of natural selection, and natural selection has winners and losers, but what people don't realize is that every time some human is born, he or she replaces many animals that die before it. Those plants and animals become part of the human, and part of the intellect that goes with being a human being.
"Wait. What are you really purposing?"
I'm purposing a new way of viewing life. One without silly superstition, but without the nihilism that is attached to a life without meaning. My meaning of life is simple: to be able to have the same things God (that does not exist) has. Isn't it a little ironic that the first computer games were also "God-games" as well? People want to be God, I know that for a certain fact. I see it every day when someone tries to change someone else's opinion. The evidence is pretty clear that we are alone in the universe, yet there are probably so many planets able to be terraformed that each and every human by that time could have his or her own planet to control.
"This is science fiction we are talking about now."
Yeah, I'll admit it. Pantheosis is a post-humanist scientific theory right now. It happens to also be a theology, as a friend from my Unitarian church tells me. To be honest, I didn't come to the conclusion of pantheosis overnight. It was the course of two-weeks of internal struggle to find the right religion for me. While pantheosis is not a religion, it is a theology. I would like to make the concept of pantheosis a developed and well-thought of theory. For that I've used the words Exaltism and The Faith of Exaltation in the past. Pantheosis is the theology of immeasurable exalting. People that truly believe in pantheosis would exalt everything, it is on par with the definition, it embraces and overlaps of the definition. But to get back to what I was saying earlier, my sub-conscious spoke to me once (it almost never speaks to me), about this subject. I simply asked myself, "What isn't possible?" "Nothing. Everything is possible." And I literally had one of those moments that was like, "Oh My God That's IT!"
"What you're describing is already in a religion."
Really? Left-Handed religions claim to be the religion for apotheosis, not pantheosis. Also, left-handed religions have black magic and terrible metal music attached to their concept of apotheosis. Some left-handed people have come to aliken to science. That's great. But I don't want my religion to be based on purely self-absorbed thoughts. That's not what I'm about. As far as Hinduism goes, the way that I interpret Hinduism is that anyone can be a Hinduist. Hinduism is not about believe anything, but applying certain teachings into your everyday life. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of -theosis Hindu school of thought, honestly.
"How much religion have you actually studied?"
I'll admit, I don't take tests and I don't read textbooks on religion, but it is a growing interest of mine. I've seen religious documentaries with Peter Owen-Jones on BBC. I've skimmed and re-skimmed countless Wikipedia and Wikia articles based on religions, and I haven't really found anything that touches on these concepts. Granted, I might be looking at the wrong sources. I might be trying to study religion when it's philosophy or more specifically metaphysics that I'm trying to deal with. But ever since I've had that epiphany I no longer can just ignore my own unique interpretation of reality. Pantheosis is actually a combination of two major epiphanies, but the second was just to consider the concept of something infinite - the Omniverse, also science fiction. I didn't come up with the term pantheosis until recently, in fact, I've used the word, "Pan-Apotheosis" which pretty much means the same thing.
"Tell me more about the evidence of your theology."
I see it everywhere. Everything is evolving on Earth so that it can survive longer, especially humans. We have curtailed natural selection quite a bit, and now the very concept of birth gives someone value - well in the United States it's supposed to. They say the average person is worth over seven million dollars to the government. If you want to know what I believe, watch one of George Carlin's skits on humanity and everything I believe is the opposite of what he believes about us. I do not believe we are a failed genetic mutation. I believe we are one of the few, if not only, species that might be able to perform intentional evolution on itself. I see things like CRISPR as a way to do so many things with us. In fact, I like the Mormon quote about exaltation quite a bit. I guess if anything could be said similarly about the Faith of Exaltation and Exaltism is this; someone compared Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, and said it was Catholicism without Christianity. I would say that the Faith of Exaltation is Mormonism without Christianity.
"You just said this concept wasn't in a religion, and you're comparing it to Mormonism."
Mormonism, just like Luciferianism, just like any other religion will have dogma or other things that I don't believe. I want to build a stronger case for my own beliefs by expanding and elaborating on them. I can assure you right now, that nobody has specifically thought of this the way I have. For example, I believe, I truly, honestly believe that people should write a Will of Conscious before their bodies expire. You know how you designate your inheritance as to where it should go after you die? Well, I believe that humans sometime in the future (who knows when) will develop a technology that will resurrect the dead. You'll need a new body, a new reality to be placed in, a lot of things will go into deciding these things as well. I plan on making the Will of Conscious but more specifically The Will of Conscious in Reality a final initiation right. To be a part of this religion, you must publicly declare that you want to be resurrected in reality. It must be notarized. I don't believe there's any religion that goes so far out of their way to do something as bold as this.
"How about other concepts?"
I got quite a bit of artwork drawn up by my friends and I. I do think the Sun is worth worshipping - something Carlin, Atenists, and I agree on. I have an article on NRM Wikia. I have a Exaltism Wikia of my own. I even have the basis of a book I would like to write with other people who could come on board for a project such as this. That book, eer, document, is on Google Docs. I can give anyone the invite. I view extropy has a growing measurable thing that will keep accelerating as we reach The Omega Point. I do not necessarily believe this, but I'm thinking that possibly the nature of the Universe is actually evil, considering how much natural entropy causes things to separate, die, and divide. But possibly not the Universe itself, but only the dark energy and matter that surround it. I have this idea that most religions try to teach people omnibenevolence, or to behave in that kind of matter, which is a noteworthy task. As it is mentioned in the book Religion for Dummies, all religions can be tied down to three major concepts: beliefs, rituals, and ethics. Omnibenevolence should be a taught ethic, in fact becoming omnibenevolence is what humanity is trying to do to stretch closer to the goal of divinity. I think polyamory is ethical, but not polygamy - I think there's a huge difference between ****ing someone and telling someone else that you love them. There's also a difference between dividing your property between two or five people, and the person you have your kids with should be your only wife or husband. As far as rituals go, I haven't really developed them yet, besides a few gestures I do towards the Sun every once in awhile. Personally, I think the most important rituals are the ones you give yourself as your growing up. Going to school, to work, being part of a club, an organization, etc. The ritual of providing organization and order to a chaotic landscape is paramount.
I just really want to say, that I feel like this is going to be a lifelong work in progress.
I talk about this a lot in this form, because I'm very passionate about this concept, or theology.
"What is "pantheosis"?"
Deconstruct the word. Pan = all. Like pansexual (finds everybody to be sexual), pantheist (all is God). Theosis is actually termed by Greek theologians but hijacked by Christians to simply state the being that exist when one becomes divine. That, the essence of being is to become one with the father. Greek mythology and philosophers separate themselves from this Christian-viewpoint by calling it, "apotheosis" rather than, "theosis". The only real difference between apotheosis is that apo- prefix means the separation thereof. So, Apotheosis loosely means, "The separation, and becoming thereof, divine." Whereas theosis, a Christian word, just means, "Becoming divine."
"Mack, you really haven't explained pantheosis, just terms related to it."
Pantheosis is not a real word! I invented it! I admit it! Well, just consider pan- meaning "all" and theosis, meaning, "becoming divine". Combine the two together and you get, "All becoming divine." That is the basis for my entire spirituality. I'm an agnostic atheist, but if I were ever to believe in a God (if there was evidence for such), I would immediately believe that the God I saw became God through a process of natural selection. In fact, I will go one step further: The Theory of Evolution is Proof of Pantheosis. Now, it might seem to you that the theory of evolution is proof of natural selection, and natural selection has winners and losers, but what people don't realize is that every time some human is born, he or she replaces many animals that die before it. Those plants and animals become part of the human, and part of the intellect that goes with being a human being.
"Wait. What are you really purposing?"
I'm purposing a new way of viewing life. One without silly superstition, but without the nihilism that is attached to a life without meaning. My meaning of life is simple: to be able to have the same things God (that does not exist) has. Isn't it a little ironic that the first computer games were also "God-games" as well? People want to be God, I know that for a certain fact. I see it every day when someone tries to change someone else's opinion. The evidence is pretty clear that we are alone in the universe, yet there are probably so many planets able to be terraformed that each and every human by that time could have his or her own planet to control.
"This is science fiction we are talking about now."
Yeah, I'll admit it. Pantheosis is a post-humanist scientific theory right now. It happens to also be a theology, as a friend from my Unitarian church tells me. To be honest, I didn't come to the conclusion of pantheosis overnight. It was the course of two-weeks of internal struggle to find the right religion for me. While pantheosis is not a religion, it is a theology. I would like to make the concept of pantheosis a developed and well-thought of theory. For that I've used the words Exaltism and The Faith of Exaltation in the past. Pantheosis is the theology of immeasurable exalting. People that truly believe in pantheosis would exalt everything, it is on par with the definition, it embraces and overlaps of the definition. But to get back to what I was saying earlier, my sub-conscious spoke to me once (it almost never speaks to me), about this subject. I simply asked myself, "What isn't possible?" "Nothing. Everything is possible." And I literally had one of those moments that was like, "Oh My God That's IT!"
"What you're describing is already in a religion."
Really? Left-Handed religions claim to be the religion for apotheosis, not pantheosis. Also, left-handed religions have black magic and terrible metal music attached to their concept of apotheosis. Some left-handed people have come to aliken to science. That's great. But I don't want my religion to be based on purely self-absorbed thoughts. That's not what I'm about. As far as Hinduism goes, the way that I interpret Hinduism is that anyone can be a Hinduist. Hinduism is not about believe anything, but applying certain teachings into your everyday life. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of -theosis Hindu school of thought, honestly.
"How much religion have you actually studied?"
I'll admit, I don't take tests and I don't read textbooks on religion, but it is a growing interest of mine. I've seen religious documentaries with Peter Owen-Jones on BBC. I've skimmed and re-skimmed countless Wikipedia and Wikia articles based on religions, and I haven't really found anything that touches on these concepts. Granted, I might be looking at the wrong sources. I might be trying to study religion when it's philosophy or more specifically metaphysics that I'm trying to deal with. But ever since I've had that epiphany I no longer can just ignore my own unique interpretation of reality. Pantheosis is actually a combination of two major epiphanies, but the second was just to consider the concept of something infinite - the Omniverse, also science fiction. I didn't come up with the term pantheosis until recently, in fact, I've used the word, "Pan-Apotheosis" which pretty much means the same thing.
"Tell me more about the evidence of your theology."
I see it everywhere. Everything is evolving on Earth so that it can survive longer, especially humans. We have curtailed natural selection quite a bit, and now the very concept of birth gives someone value - well in the United States it's supposed to. They say the average person is worth over seven million dollars to the government. If you want to know what I believe, watch one of George Carlin's skits on humanity and everything I believe is the opposite of what he believes about us. I do not believe we are a failed genetic mutation. I believe we are one of the few, if not only, species that might be able to perform intentional evolution on itself. I see things like CRISPR as a way to do so many things with us. In fact, I like the Mormon quote about exaltation quite a bit. I guess if anything could be said similarly about the Faith of Exaltation and Exaltism is this; someone compared Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, and said it was Catholicism without Christianity. I would say that the Faith of Exaltation is Mormonism without Christianity.
"You just said this concept wasn't in a religion, and you're comparing it to Mormonism."
Mormonism, just like Luciferianism, just like any other religion will have dogma or other things that I don't believe. I want to build a stronger case for my own beliefs by expanding and elaborating on them. I can assure you right now, that nobody has specifically thought of this the way I have. For example, I believe, I truly, honestly believe that people should write a Will of Conscious before their bodies expire. You know how you designate your inheritance as to where it should go after you die? Well, I believe that humans sometime in the future (who knows when) will develop a technology that will resurrect the dead. You'll need a new body, a new reality to be placed in, a lot of things will go into deciding these things as well. I plan on making the Will of Conscious but more specifically The Will of Conscious in Reality a final initiation right. To be a part of this religion, you must publicly declare that you want to be resurrected in reality. It must be notarized. I don't believe there's any religion that goes so far out of their way to do something as bold as this.
"How about other concepts?"
I got quite a bit of artwork drawn up by my friends and I. I do think the Sun is worth worshipping - something Carlin, Atenists, and I agree on. I have an article on NRM Wikia. I have a Exaltism Wikia of my own. I even have the basis of a book I would like to write with other people who could come on board for a project such as this. That book, eer, document, is on Google Docs. I can give anyone the invite. I view extropy has a growing measurable thing that will keep accelerating as we reach The Omega Point. I do not necessarily believe this, but I'm thinking that possibly the nature of the Universe is actually evil, considering how much natural entropy causes things to separate, die, and divide. But possibly not the Universe itself, but only the dark energy and matter that surround it. I have this idea that most religions try to teach people omnibenevolence, or to behave in that kind of matter, which is a noteworthy task. As it is mentioned in the book Religion for Dummies, all religions can be tied down to three major concepts: beliefs, rituals, and ethics. Omnibenevolence should be a taught ethic, in fact becoming omnibenevolence is what humanity is trying to do to stretch closer to the goal of divinity. I think polyamory is ethical, but not polygamy - I think there's a huge difference between ****ing someone and telling someone else that you love them. There's also a difference between dividing your property between two or five people, and the person you have your kids with should be your only wife or husband. As far as rituals go, I haven't really developed them yet, besides a few gestures I do towards the Sun every once in awhile. Personally, I think the most important rituals are the ones you give yourself as your growing up. Going to school, to work, being part of a club, an organization, etc. The ritual of providing organization and order to a chaotic landscape is paramount.
I just really want to say, that I feel like this is going to be a lifelong work in progress.
