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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:31 am
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:58 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:39 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:29 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:46 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:02 am
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I'm an agnostic pandeist with an interest in omnism.
I have a feeling most of you won't know either (pandeism or omnism) so I'll put the definitions down:
Pandeism- A group of religions similar to pantheism, but with a deist outlook on the nature of God. Pandeists believe that God is immanent in the universe - basically that God is everything and everything is God (or gods and goddesses, depending on the particular religion). However, unlike pantheism, God is not a conscious or active being, but non-personal or non-interventory. It is different to panentheism or panendeism, which believe that even though God is immanent in the universe, he also transcends it (exists outside of it partly).
Omnism- the belief in all religions; those who hold this belief are called omnists (or Omnists).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions". In recent years, the term has been emerging anew, due to the interest of modern day self-described "omnists" who have rediscovered and begun to redefine the term.
Contemporary refinements have modified "belief in all religions" to refer more to an acceptance of the legitimacy of all religions. The OED elaborates that an omnist believes "in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people". That is not necessarily the conclusion of those who describe themselves as omnists. Some omnists interpret this to mean that all religions contain varying elements of a common truth, or place omnism in opposition to dogmatism, in that omnists are open to potential truths from all religions. However, as with modern physics, this does not mean that there is a single transcendent purpose or cause that unites. There may indeed be an infinite number of possibilities, or a deeper form of uncertainty in reality. There may be an influence more akin to existentialism in which consciousness is a power or force that helps determine the reality, and yet is not a divine influence.
In this regard, omnism does not appear to be a form of theology, as it neither espouses nor opposes particular beliefs about God. Instead, it affirms the necessity of one arriving at an understanding of reality based on personal experience, engagement, and inquiry, and an acceptance of the validity and legitimacy of the differing understandings of others. In this, there is, however, an implied system of values or ethics.
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Mmm, sweet copypasta. My parents tried to raise me Lutheran, but I never believed any of it. For the first fourteen years of my life I considered myself atheist (in elementary school I didn't even know the word for it, no one around me spoke of not believing in a higher power, I felt like a freak) and now for the last two, agnostic. It has only been in the last year I have took an interest in deism, which soon morphed into pandeism and became a part of my beliefs. Then came omnism a couple weeks ago, I find it quite interesting.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:31 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:54 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:36 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:15 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:39 pm
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