What kind of pantheist are you?

[mycorrhiza]

Monist physical / naturalistic
There is one substance and it is physical. Commonly called naturalistic pantheism, scientific pantheism, religious atheism and sexed-up atheism.

Monist idealistic
There is one substance and it is spiritual/mental. The physical world is thus an illusion or a figment of the mind.

Dualist
There are two substances, physical and spiritual/mental. Often body and soul.

Other
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[idav]

Naturalistic pantheism. If it doesn't exist in physical reality then it doesn't exist at all.

 

[Bob Dixon]

Monistic/Theistic

There is one substance, and that is God.

 

[doppelganger]

Epistemological

 

[Shuddhasattva]

Naturalistic pantheism. If it doesn't exist in physical reality then it doesn't exist at all.

How strange that I can agree with this as a monisic panentheist, which I regard as a position uniting idealist and realist strains - the perceived reality is 'unreal,' the absolute reality is absolutely real, the two are not actually different, one being openly expressed in the other, anything not in the physical reality cannot be ascribed the term existence, nonetheless, non-existence may not apply either.

 

[Iti oj]

Sexed up atheist

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Naturalist without the monist thing, because i'm all for the philosophy of respecting all nature as if it were alive.

 

[Iti oj]

What is monism? Is the like we and the universe are one object

 

[doppelganger]

Monistic/Theistic

There is one substance, and that is God.

So "you" are "God"?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

What is monism? Is the like we and the universe are one object

It means the universe is ultimately composed of a single substance, typically a material substance or a spiritual/mental substance.

 

[Iti oj]

Wave or strings count?

 

[mycorrhiza]

Wave or strings count?

I would say that those are physical

 

[Bob Dixon]

So "you" are "God"?

No. But only because there is no "me" to begin with; the distinction between "me" and "everything else" is entirely artificial. I'm a series of ill-defined chemical reactions called Bob Dixon, but it wasn't always so, and at one point it'll cease to be so. For the Universe, there's no such thing as "Bob Dixon".

 

[The Sum of Awe]

No. But only because there is no "me" to begin with; the distinction between "me" and "everything else" is entirely artificial. I'm a series of ill-defined chemical reactions called Bob Dixon, but it wasn't always so, and at one point it'll cease to be so. For the Universe, there's no such thing as "Bob Dixon".

So an individual piece of "all" is not God?

 

[doppelganger]

No. But only because there is no "me" to begin with; the distinction between "me" and "everything else" is entirely artificial. I'm a series of ill-defined chemical reactions called Bob Dixon, but it wasn't always so, and at one point it'll cease to be so. For the Universe, there's no such thing as "Bob Dixon".

So what is the nature of your non-God-ness?

 

[Iti oj]

So an individual piece of "all" is not God?

No an individul piece of god is not i/me

 

[The Sum of Awe]

No an individul piece of god is not i/me

If everything if God, that means you also are part of God, and deserve an equal amount of Godliness as everything else.

 

[Iti oj]

If everything if God, that means you also are part of God, and deserve an equal amount of Godliness as everything else.

No you me I us etc just breath

 

[Gjallarhorn]

If everything if God, that means you also are part of God, and deserve an equal amount of Godliness as everything else.

Actually your amount of godliness would probably be determined based on the amount of atoms you possess.

 

[mycorrhiza]

I am not "God", as God is the whole Universe. I am part of God, though. Just as much a part of God as a snail, a rock or a star. Like a single atom of me isn't me, but still a part of me and just as much as all other atoms in me.