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Virtual ladies and gentlemen-- I realize that my logic is sometimes convoluted. So what I am willing to do is to post little bits and pieces of three classic texts that form my basic approach to theology: Star of Redemption, Saviors of God, and Process and Reality. What I would do is post...

Recently I have been reading a set of books on heresy. Four are by Yuri Stoyanov of University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Near and Middle East Department. He has a pretty hefty resume in the area of Heresies (The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The Other God: Dualist...

This is the third issue (besides my apologia and the metaphysical, un-provable and un-falsifiable nature of some schools of physics) that is an idee fixe for me. Plato and Einstein famously denied the existence of time (yes, I will discuss that at some point). So do many scientists...

I am no philosopher or metaphysician or theologian. Nor a real scientist or mathematician or physicist. But I "do" those things. What is meant by that is I think I live an examined life; but am not academically qualified to pass judgment on it. Questioning politics, ideologies, philosophies...

Are any two conceptions (notions, thoughts, models) of G-d (from atheism to monotheism to panentheism) the same? For any two individuals? for any one individual over time?

I realized Oldest Religion? before Christ? Post #47 may stir up some controversy with the phrase "evolving G-d".So I am starting this as a thread focusing on this notion. I am writing an extended post which I will get up tonight.:D

Okay. This is a crash course on radar’s belief system, to include what he means by truth, evidence, reason, empiricism, reality. It focuses on how to think like a scientist or philosopher, or like de Bono or Polanyi (this is a process I focus on every day, and one of the reasons I come to this...

I wish to begin a new thread, see what you think. The idea is that we as a species have lost (for the most part) our connexion to the Divine. We have lost our divine connexion, the holiness, the wholeness. In days long ago, those of Abraham, Zarathustra, the Rishis, the Ancient Shamans, and...

If the opposite of faith is certainty, then in this context, the opposite of love is smug. I read that at "Deliver us from Smugness" by Falsani (posted 5-31-2012). I think this is an important topic. Does having faith mean having doubt? Certainly J!sus in the Garden can be interpreted to imply...

We read a lot here about scripture and canon in Judaism and Christianity. So I thought I'd compile a list of the various canons I know of. This is a list of the OT canon.

Yep (and all the joy withyou dies!). What I found very disturbing is how the concept of truth is all bantied about on this site. Truth is nothing more that the absolute, 100%, no-kidding, correspondence of some statement (or assertion or proposition or thought) to a real occasion (something...

Let me introduce you to “liberal” (really, really conservative) Quakerism aka “The Religious Society of Friends”, “Children of the Light and Friends of the Truth”. In XXVIIth century England there was a Civil War (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War_) , in part brought about by...

Thanks to salishan, NCOT and donnann I realize what kind of pain-in-the derrière I am here. I mean well, but this is awfully hard for me (I get spun up too easily and am way too pompous). First, like most Quakers, honesty and truth are sacrosanct to me (that is why we affirm and do not swear…...

I presume you are talking about blood plasma and not the high-temperature physics plasma. If so, look up Gorgon Ward or "Plasma Blood Banking". If this is what you mean there are also some holistic-traditional medicine descriptions of what it is and how it functions.

Hi folks, If one wishes to discuss young earth stuff, post it here. I do not want to waste valuable interfaith space on what the scientific community considers baseless pseudo-science. I will be happy to provide physics time-dating discussions using both weak nuclear force indicators (like...

Okay, let's start a physics discussion forum. Start with Biocentric (Lanza), Transactional (Cramer), and Process (Cahill) physics. And one can always add Many Worlds, Many Minds, Cosistent Histories, Bohm... Of course things like Bell's Theorem, Copenhagen Interpretation, Afshar.etc will come...

I must agree with your reading. It's like all that there is is this web. Reality is the web or veil. Unreality is the image we project onto the web or veil. Classicial science is the science of the veil. Science at the sub-atomic level seems to be science at the web-veil boundary. Any...

Let me put another thread out there (the first one ain't going so good). I am a trained nuclear physicist. Am also a keen follower of philosophy (in fact Process Philosophy led me to Western Spiritualism). Am also a liberal Quaker (we think we really are the most conservative and those...

I had thought I had posted something here -- I find the discussions for the most part most challenging. They make me think. I am a California-born, New Mexico-raised, GI-educated citizen of the U.S. My backgound is primarily military and contractor related (contractor in Southeast Asia, active...

Let me set the stage. Three of the greatest influences on me are A.N. Whitehead ("the last man who knew everything"), Nikos Kazantzakis ("the novel theologian"), and Rufus Jones ("the quaker mystic"). All three of these gentlemen wrote a great deal of philosophy that includes analysis of the...