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March 27th, 2017

3/27/2017

What significance does symbiosis have to us as a species?

Our species has existed for thousands of years. Our experiences over these thousands of years have molded us and our beliefs as a species and as individuals.

To discard everything we have learned over the millennia would be ludicrous.

The suffering has been enormous.

Blood has covered the fields, colored the waters, seeped deep into the earth.

Wails of despair and desperation have reached to and through the very boundaries of the universe.

Tears have been so numerous they would cause the greatest floods to pale.

The sadness, fear, yearning, pleas for mercy, ... cannot be ignored.

And why is it that the negatives are the ones being stressed here?

The negatives are being stressed because it is not the wonderful, warm, and awe inspiring events we want to reduce significantly.

It is the future negative aspects and experiences of our species we want to reduce.

It is the future painful actions of our species we want to push aside in order to make room for the positive.

It is the future despair and despondence we want to squeeze into a box and set aside in order to allow the positives to become substantially dominant in our society as we drag our social presence throughout the heavens.

But what of the negatives?

The negatives have molded us and shaped us.

How can we let these go?

Aren’t we afraid we will lose what these negative experiences had to offer us if we reduce their occurrences in the future?

There has been so much pain and suffering in the past, how could it be that there is not enough to last forever?

How could it be that if all awareness becomes a part of total awareness, that there would not be enough pain and suffering for all pieces of awareness to share when these pieces are once again immersed within the total sum of awareness?

Knowing our history as a species, how could we ever believe we have not contributed more than our share of the negative?

How could we ever believe we must suffer more for the good of the whole?

Our species has suffered enough.

We may have done this through self infliction, but we have suffered it nonetheless.

It is time to move on and this can only be done through understanding where we are located and why we exist.

We are located within the Whole.

We are located within God/Brahma/The All/... (panentheism) and as such all the negatives all the suffering, all the pain remains within The All, becomes a memory of The All.

We must never forget, for we have no right to let all the suffering endured by members of our past go in vain.

We must not ignore the suffering in our past.

The only way to avoid repeating the past is to remember the past.

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March 19th, 2017

3/19/2017

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Panentheism and the conceptual framework of philosophy

What does the conceptual framework of philosophy have to offer us?

Philosophy: Philosophy has two important aims. First it tries to give people a unified view of the universe in which they live. Second it seeks to make people more critical thinkers by sharpening their ability to think clearly and precisely.
–World Book Encyclopedia, p. 345

Let’s begin by discussing the first aim of philosophy. First, it tries to give people a unified view of the universe in which they live.

Philosophy has shrunk from this aspect of its responsibility.

Philosophy has become so entrenched in the concept that we cannot know ‘truth’ that it has refused to tackle the problem of finding ‘truths.’

We may not be able to know truths, but we certainly can develop what we perceive truths to be based upon our intuitions and faiths – religion, our observations and experiences – science, and our logic and reason – philosophy.

If we attempt to establish truths based upon only one of these three means of developing perceptions, then we develop a truth favoring one of the three: religion, science or philosophy.

This type of truth is immediately rejected by the other two on the basis of bias.

Since our perceptions are based upon how we incorporate all three fields, any truths must be able to be incorporated within the scope of all three.

As for the second aim: ... it seeks to make people more critical thinkers by sharpening their ability to think clearly and precisely.

This also is the responsibility of philosophy.

Philosophy has the responsibility to develop a unified view, a universal philosophy, so airtight that no reasonable person could refute the concept based upon any reasonable argument, be it from religion, science or philosophy.

A unified view, a universal philosophy, has to be so basic, so fundamental to the general layman, that it cannot be refuted through any use of common reason.

To develop a unified view and to make people better critical thinkers is the responsibility of philosophy, for philosophy incorporates reason.

Without reason, all three – philosophy, science, and religion – fall apart.

Therefore, the concept of a unified view must begin with reason and fuse itself with universal religious concepts and universal scientific concepts.

Panentheism is the foundation, the axiom if you wish, which is capable of acting as the fundamental first statement for not only religion but also science and philosophy itself.

The material in the 'free books' of this site, provide more details regarding this topic and the sister site, panentheism.com, provides a searchable tool for the reader to examine this topic in detail.

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Philosophy and the universe within which we live

3/17/2017

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Philosophy and the universe within which we live
What does the conceptual framework of philosophy imply about the universe within which we live?

Philosophy becomes a means by which we gain the broadest possible picture of ourselves and our environment, both on a microscopic and macroscopic basis.

Philosophy, by its very purpose, implies an outside as well as an inside to our universe.

Philosophy is the attempt to understand the function of the universe in terms of what lies within it and what lies outside it.

By doing so, it leads us to an understanding of what we may be, what our function is, within the universe as well as to what lies outside the universe.

This process of understanding our function within reality as well as understanding what lies outside our universe is accomplished through an attempt to establish a unified view of the universe.

Many great thinkers have left their mark upon the field of philosophy over the last 3,000 years.

But just as surely as they have left their mark, they have left their doubts about the ability of philosophy to accomplish its task of developing a unified view of the universe.

This is not a negative statement; rather, it is a statement of growth, for just as a humans grow through self examination, so do specialty fields of knowledge.

Knowledge we gain as a species is nothing more than perceptions we gain based upon our efforts as individuals to understand what it is we perceive through faith, observations, and reason.

It is no wonder our basic fields of study go through similar stages of development as their architects.

There is little doubt that humans are the most soul searching life form on this planet.

Since humans are the engineers of their own fields of study, it only follows that philosophy would go through much soul searching in terms of its ability to accomplish its own function.

Eventually, one has to stop searching and get on with life, and so it is with philosophy.

Self doubt, soul searching, hesitation, fear of failure, whatever excuse one wishes to place upon the lack of success of philosophy to accomplish its goal, the fact still remains that philosophy has not developed a unified view of the universe.

It is time for philosophy to stop worrying about being condemned to ‘hell’ by religions and being ridiculed by science.

It is time for philosophy to have faith in itself and use what it has observed as being successful for science.

It is time to build a model of a unified view of the universe.

The mere fact that we perceive the universe exists should be enough for philosophy to understand the universe can be modeled.

This site provides the scientifically, religiously and philosophically the model of our physical universe in great detail verbally, pictorially as well as through the use of Venn Diagrams.

The name of the model is panentheism.

The material in the 'free books' of this site, provide more details regarding this topic and the sister site, panentheism.com, provides a searchable tool for the reader to examine this topic in detail.

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March 15th, 2017

3/15/2017

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Panentheism and Entropy

Because the universe is in a constant state of action, entropy would imply the universe is alive in the sense that it is constantly changing.

The universe is a heat exchange system. Action, change, occurs within our universe when heat is passed from place to place. The measure of the amount changed is entropy.

The whole orientation of this concept is simple. If things never change, they remain ‘permanent.’ The final state of the universe would be at the point heat is distributed evenly, ‘equally,’ throughout the universe. Combine these two ideas and you have ‘permanent equilibrium.’ As a simple example, if everything in our universe suddenly became the same temperature, then everything would be ‘frozen’ in place. There would be no heat exchange, therefore no change. Nothing would move. In this situation, nothing would decay, nothing would grow, everything would be the same. Everything would be in ‘permanent equilibrium’ today, tomorrow, forever.

We have never seen a permanent state of equilibrium in our universe. Our universe, and everything in it, appears to be undergoing constant change through growth or decay. Our universe is alive and vibrant.

Growth and decay will eventually stop as energy levels become the same throughout the universe. Change will eventually stop. If our universe is all there is, as atheists and pantheists believe, then our universe can die and with it, dies existence as we know it. This implies all the change, all the ‘work’ that occurred within it over the thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions, billions upon billions of years, will have had no meaning.

This does not seem logical. On the other hand, if something exists beyond our universe, the ‘thing’ outside itself would still exist. The significance the universe generated could possibly exist as long as the ‘thing’ outside existed. We refer to this ‘thing’ as the creator of this universe. We refer to this ‘thing’ as the Causative Force. Entropy implies three possible states of existence: growth, permanent equilibrium, decay. We have never observed the state of permanent equilibrium within our universe. Once our universe reaches the state of permanent equilibrium, entropy implies the universe would be ‘dead.’

Only panentheism is capable of resolving the issue of life after death be it death of the individual or death of our physical universe for panentheism provides the rationale as to what we lie within even after the universe itself dies.

The universe lies within its Creator and as such once the universe winks out of existence, our true essence, the spark of the divine found within each and everyone of us simply finds itself once again reunited with it source, the Creator of the physical realm within which we presently find ourselves.

The material in the 'free books' of this site, provide more details regarding this topic and the sister site, panentheism.com, provides a searchable tool for the reader to examine this to

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March 10th, 2017

3/10/2017

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How does the concept of the Big Bang Theory reinforce the concept of panentheism?

The Big Bang Theory would imply the boundary of our universe is expanding into something.

If our universe is expanding into something, this would imply our universe
is, in a sense, embraced by something. Perhaps it is embraced by its Creator.

If it is not lying within its Creator, what would it be lying within?

If it is lying within its Creator, the Creator is what we would call omnipresent in relationship to the universe. The universe would be finite, a part of, a piece of the Causative Force.

This is panentheism.

If the universe begins shrinking, the same argument applies. Ex- panding/contraction, exploding/imploding – the argument is still the same.

If the universe is not lying within the Creator, as present day religions profess, then it would have to be expanding into something that is not a part of the Causative Force because the Causative Force, as religions say, would ‘transcend’ the universe. But this argument undermines the very foundation of religion. This argument implies the Causative Force is not all present because the universe lies elsewhere. The destruction of the concept of omnipresence creates a domino effect. With the destruction of the idea that the Causative Force is omnipresence, all present, comes the destruction of the Causative Force being omniscient, all knowledgeable, followed by the destruction of the Causative Force being omnipotent, all powerful.

Some theists would object to the above for they would say, 'The Creator of the physical universe is not made of parts.'

Panentheism does not imply the Creator is made of parts any more than geometry suggests a line is made of parts, is composed of points. Points are contained within a line but the line is not made up of points.

So it is with the Creator of the physical universe.

Panentheism states the physical universe is located within the Creator but the Creator of the physical universe is not 'composed/made up of' the physical.

More specifics can be found within the 'free books' of this site. A search engine for this material can be found on the companion site at panentheism.com

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