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HOW TO USE NING WISELY

*UPLOAD YOUR OWN PHOTO. People will welcome, trust, and respond to you MUCH more readily if they can relate to you visually,

*Drop by our common room - The WALL. Visit this Front Page to see the latest action. Read the latest Humour.

*DON'T TRY TO DO EVERYTHING. Be selective. Find your comfort level. Find your niche and make friends.

*Join your local group - if there isn't one suggest it here.. And join one or two interest or support groups.

*Take part in a Forum discussion, but focus on one or two discussions at a time.

*Finally, Don't forget the Chat option (click to see who's around, bottom right). READ THE USER GUIDE.... *

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Neil Tyson: If you're scientifically literate the world looks very different to you.

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We Are Here - Carl Sagan

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The Global Consciousness Project

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Living the Wisdom of the Tao

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Native American Prophecy - Elders Speak (1 of 5)

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Value Change For Survival

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Valley of Dreams

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Human Intelligence

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Together We Are One

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The Point To Life

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WORLD PANTHEISM NEWS. NING NEWS ETC

We made it a lot easier for you to find a group for you: Hover your mouse over the GROUPS tab to see the NEW GROUP CATEGORIES!

The Life Stages category of groups includes two new groups, Birth and Babies, and Ageing With Grace

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BooksCatsEtc replied to Tor Myrvang's discussion 'The god Pan in mythology, art and literature' in the group Books and Poetry

Even as a little girl I preferred the trickster gods to the more "white hat" types -- I don't know whether it was the usual bad guys getting the best lines thing, or that being less perfect they were more accessible. Or maybe it was just the horns...

2 hours ago

Paul Harrison replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

We welcome any and all republishing of the statement, please add a link to the World Pantheist Movement site http://www.pantheism.net. Thankyou.

2 hours ago

Starwind Evensong replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

It seems to me that one reason some of us have probably stepped away from "traditional" religious belief is the various belief system's exclusionary natures. If those of conservative religious views had their way we would all be locked into partic...

4 hours ago

GEORGE THOMAS replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

I notice that #9 puts us smack into conflict with the Muslim movement at the United Nations which wants to shut down freedom of speech by making it a blasphemy to speak negatively about religion. Plus they would not look kindly on the separation o...

4 hours ago

Paul Harrison replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

Here's my personal take on Howard and Chris" points. Working towards "a world community based on peace" is probably the ideal of almost every country on the planet. It does not imply pacifism. Of course pacifism comes in various grades, ranging fr...

8 hours ago

Howard Wilson replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

Walter said: However one can legitimately object on common-sense grounds that this is going too far --- do we really want to treat parasites and pathogens 'with compassion and respect', and if so why? Should we preserve weeds in our gardens? Shou...

9 hours ago

Ragbag Bugurian commented on World Pantheism's group 'Wall'

We have been getting a lot of rain. Replenishing the ground water, washing out the dry beds. Nature seems to care about the future even when we don't.

10 hours ago

Mike Prince replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

We acknowledge the inherent value of all life, human and non-human, and strive to treat all living beings with compassion and respect. Most of the belief statement fits my ideals but the above is, for me, the clincher. Organised religion's terrib...

18 hours ago

BooksCatsEtc added 2 photos

19 hours ago

Sabrina Batikh replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

I do think that native people used to have a strong connection to their environment when they lived directly off the land. There is a special wisdom that comes from living off the land in a tribal setting that people who grew up not living directl...

21 hours ago

Thomas Earle Moore commented on Thomas Earle Moore's photo '061909 astronomical'

I've only been there twice, separated in time by nearly 30 years. Enjoyed the city very much both times!

23 hours ago

Gina Fernandez added 2 songs

play Crosses (Tiesto Remix) - José González
play Faded - Cascada

yesterday

Walter Alan Mandell replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

Section 3 of the Credo states: "We are an integral part of Nature, which we should cherish, revere and preserve in all its magnificent beauty and diversity. We should strive to live in harmony with Nature locally and globally. We acknowledge the i...

yesterday

Paul Harrison replied to Walter Alan Mandell's discussion 'The Pantheist CREDO: What it Means, and What it Means for How We Live Our Lives'

The Pantheist feeling of unity with everything has a very solid basis in evidence from several scientific points of view. 1. Common Origin Everything in our Universe has a common origin in the Big Bang. All cell-based life on earth probably origin...

yesterday

Starwind Evensong commented on World Pantheism's group 'Wall'

More photos that may be of interest to members - National Wildlife announced their wildlife photo contest winners. Photos are here: http://www.nwf.org/photozone/

yesterday

Ragbag Bugurian commented on World Pantheism's group 'Wall'

For those who want a better insight into Fractals, it might be worth checking out the DVD course in Chaos from the Teaching Company: http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=1333 But wait until it goes on sale, which it will.

yesterday

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WELCOME TIPS

GROUPS are for sharing interests, experience and wisdom.

THE WALL is for short news, quotes and links (no debating please).

Use FORUM DISCUSSIONS for all controversial topics and debates.

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Blog Posts

How to avoid Ning overload: Be highly selective.

After three months experience with Ning, it's becoming clearer how we can best feel at home there without feeling confused or overwhelmed by the wealth of options and the quality of experiences, inspirations and thoughts available.

Be selective
Consider our Online Community like a city, with many monuments museums, neighborhoods and cafes. Find the places you like and stop by them. Find a couple of comfy corners to frequent and settle into the sofas there.
Nobody can know everyone… Continue

Posted by World Pantheism on September 2, 2009 at 12:00pm

SERIOUS ISSUE WITH DISCUSSIONS

We have just learned that when someone leaves Ning, any discussions they started are deleted - and so are any replies that any other people have added, including any record even on your own home page.

This has already happened to us once when the Paganism and Pantheism discussion disappeared a few weeks ago.

This has some important implications:

1. Everyone should keep their own copies of wha

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Posted by World Pantheism on July 29, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

New Search tab added

You can search all of this World Pantheism community for anything you are interested in. I just added a new tab for this - top right.

Posted by World Pantheism on July 10, 2009 at 12:00pm

Our first spammer!

Well it happened, in our fifth week at Ning. A girl called Esther joined, six hours ago, describing herself as a nice-looking girl. Her photo was a vase of flowers. As soon as she arrived she began leaving comments on male profile pages, asking to be friends, giving her email, saying she would send her picture. She did about ten guys, while she was here, sending the same message to each one. Five or six smelled spam instantly, one mailed me.
We don't really have any protection against this, exce… Continue

Posted by World Pantheism on July 10, 2009 at 9:38am

New menu entry for local groups!

You can now hover on the groups Tab and see a menu item for local & regional groups!
Since Ning does not have an option to categorize groups, this had to be improvised. You just insert the word "local" somewhere early in the group description. The new link is basically a search page for the word "local" in all the groups.

Posted by World Pantheism on July 9, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Keeping up with the discussions here and finding your niche

Sharon is quite right when she says it's easy to start getting overwhelmed by all the activities.
An important way to reduce the noise here is to limit what emails you get sent. You can do that here.
Also you can choose to start or stop getting emails about any particular discussion by clicking "Follow" or "Stop following" at the bottom of the reply box.
It's also wise to find a niche of the most important places for… Continue

Posted by World Pantheism on June 24, 2009 at 5:00pm

Keep an eye out for chat or you'll miss it

Potentially the chat facility here is great - at any time there are six or more members on line, and you can chat at any time. The biggest problem with the way it is now, is knowing that someone is trying to chat. There should be a window that pops up but there isn't. Here's a typical exchange of people trying valiantly to be heard, and failing. I hope they don't mind.

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Posted by World Pantheism on June 25, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment