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What religious philosophy do you like most?
Catholic Christianity 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Liberal Christianity 13%  13%  [ 3 ]
Conservative Protestant Christianity 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Liberal Judaism 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Conservative Judaism 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Islam 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Process theology 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Wicca and paganism 13%  13%  [ 3 ]
Buddhism 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Hinduism 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Gnosticism 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Confucianism 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Taoism 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Transcendentalism 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Other 17%  17%  [ 4 ]
Give me the results 17%  17%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 24

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08 Oct 2009, 8:11 am

What ever became of Stoicism?

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09 Oct 2009, 1:21 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Have you ever heard of Process theism?...

No, but here is what I found out. Google books permitted sampling few pages from: "A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality", by Alfred North Whitehead and Donald W. Sherburne. Some excerpts...

Each actual entity is conceived as an act of experience arising out of data.
Each actual entity is a throb of experience including the actual world within its scope.
Feelings are vectors..

It is a process of 'feeling' the many data, so as to absorb them into the unity of one individual 'satisfaction'.
The actual entity terminates its becoming in one complex feeling involving a completely determinate bond with every item in the universe..
The philosophy of organism presupposes a datum which is met with feelings, and progressively attains the unity of a subject.

But 'decision' cannot be construed as a casual adjunct of an actual entity. It constitutes the very meaning of actuality. An actual entity arises from decisions for it, and by its very existence provides decisions for other actual entities which supersede it.

The things which are temporal [actual entities] arise by their participation in the things which are eternal [eternal objects]...The two sets are mediated by a thing which combines the actuality of what is temporal with the timelessness of what is potential.


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Obviously it will take a great deal of study to really understand what Whitehead is saying. Apparently, however, there are more than a few people who think they do. If one were extremely gifted in mathematical comprehension, might it be possible to ascribe a series of equations to incorporate Whiteheads logical conditions? And since he was a mathematician, could it be possible that he started with the equations?... and his "magnus opus"----Process and Reality is simply the English rendering of those equations for the non-mathematically inclined?

Thank you AG, for initiating discussion on this most interesting "spiritual path", which I hope to investigate further as time permits.



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09 Oct 2009, 4:08 am

Buddhism comes closest to my beliefs.