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Linda, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts when you finish The Hebrew Goddess.

Hey Soms. Welcome to interfaith.org. I'm not sure that there's any way to view threads as a tree and sigs have been disabled because they had a tendency to distract people from the actual subjects of threads. -- Dauer

Me too! I've used a few words here that led me back here when I googled 'em later. Anyway, congrats on finding a label that fits your current worldview and a community of people that you can relate to. I think that's awesome.

Dondi, I am not surprised at all by this shift. But the label is a new one to me. *googles* Interfaith.org is the highest hit. You my friend have just created some weird loop that will swallow up first the internet and then the rest of existence.

Slowwwww down. That's way too much kool aide for one gulp. I spent about three years as a vegan and did a good bit of reading into those types of assertions. Do most Westerners eat too much meat? Without a doubt. We eat too much meat. That doesn't mean we're not omnivores, that we shouldn't eat...

That comparison doesn't take omnivores into account.

Asperger's is more like the opposite of ADD. I focus very, very well. It's not really something I'd want to treat because I benefit from it most of the time. According to most research it's not medically treatable as it's related to the structure of the brain itself being a bit different. There...

I'm not by any means trying to smear you as irrational, nor to pick nits. I'm trying to get a clear statement from you. The problem with assuming what you mean when you say that everything's merely speculation and conjecture is that some people say that and mean it quite literally. I was just...

Some of kabbalah is in agreement with panentheism either in that formulation or in the 'everything is made up of God and God transcends everything' formulation. According to the later approach, Ayn Sof didn't go anywhere. Instead it's like a filter was put before our eyes so that we can perceive...

There is a big difference between scientific knowledge changing in the face of new data and us being entirely limited to conjecture and opinion. Do you consider it only conjecture and opinion that you and I are communicating on a web forum? If all we had was conjecture and opinion society...

If you highlight the text you'll see that you can still read it, but the new theme does seem suggestive.

That's actually Shawn's word. I'd prefer to call it indirect communication. Of course to someone else it might be very direct. I've told you as much before in the past on at least one of the occasions that I expressed my frustrations attempting to engage in dialogue with you. I wouldn't quite...

They've seemed pretty consistent of late, and they haven't appeared particularly open-minded. To me you've appeared somewhat condemnatory and antagonistic in recent weeks, most especially toward Thomas. I believe you mean what you say, that your biases aren't dug in very deep, but I think that...

Or, as my origins of hasidism prof put it, in pantheism everything is God and God is everything. In panentheism everything is God but God is not everything. In other words, in panentheism, Everything does not define God. While everything is a part of God, God is larger than everything, if you will.

Wil, if you're looking for some excellent coverage of media bias in the religion news beat, check out getreligion.com.

I hope you don't mind, Shawn, I've moved our discussion here where it won't get in the way of talk about pantheism, panentheism and related idea. I don't disagree! And I'm glad you're willing to admit that you're displaying entrenched biases. But your biases were going against the direction of...

There is a difference between meandering in a thread and repeated attempts by one individual to redirect the thread entirely because his own entrenched biases make theology and philosophy seem like a lot of unnecessary nitpicking. If conversations about theology and philosophy seem irrelevant to...

Shawn, Perhaps it's possible to both acknowledge similarities between ideas while recognizing and discussing the differences between them. These two statements: "words are made of letters which are symbols that we use to convey meaning to each other. But the problem inherent in us people is we...

Dune reference?

I don't disagree, but Avi said that "this has nothing to do with God." It seems logical to me, for that reason, that he was intending something else. Following the idea that there are multiple definitions of God, it would be possible that the atheist is really atheistic toward some and agnostic...