World Pantheism - The online community for naturalistic Pantheists

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*UPLOAD YOUR OWN PHOTO. People will welcome, trust, and respond to you MUCH more readily if they can relate to you visually, Use a pet etc if you do not want to use your personal photo.

*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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Coffee & Converstion | Pantheist Group in Sydney

February 21, 2010 from 2pm to 3pm – Powerhouse Museum Members Lounge
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June 18, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – UU Church of Annapolis, MD

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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E

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BBC - The Secret Life of Chaos (2010) (Part 1/6)

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Owl City-Fireflies

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Nerdstock: nine lessons and carols for godless people

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The Mark Steel lectures - Charles Darwin (1/3)

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The Tao I seek is not in New Mexico

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Peter Mayer "The Play" (with lyrics in captions)

Added by Thomas Earle Moore
Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Star Stuff

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That Mitchell and Webb Look - Divine Watermelon

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Whale Rider

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Books and Poetry

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Pantheist Parenting

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Sustainable Living

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Mental Healthiness

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Pantheist Vegetarians

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Join or suggest a local group Join groups on Pantheist living, stages of life, environment and nature, interests and activities, causes and issues, and more.

Latest Activity

Dave Burgess added a discussion to the group Texas

What steered you towards Pantheism?

In my case (now I know what pantheism actually *is*) I suppose I was a sort of pantheist as soon as I started pondering belief systems at an early age. Church never appealed to me, yet I still stuck with the idea that there MUST be a God, as so many…

9 minutes ago

catherine monroe added a photo

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39 minutes ago

Walter Alan Mandell replied to Paul Harrison's discussion 'Nature of the Universe'

What does "better" mean when applied to the Universe? Better by which criteria? Whose criteria? The Universe is incomprehensibly vast, and that we humans are but mid sized beings --- in terms of powers of 10 somewhere in the middle of the log scale…

6 hours ago

Walter Alan Mandell commented on World Pantheism's group 'Ageing With Grace'

My exercise regimen is 3 rescued Husky dogs. They insist on being walked for long walks in any weather, twice a day. I also have a Bow-Flex exercise machine but it unfortunately seldom gets used. I've just made a non-New Years Resolution to start us…

9 hours ago

Jody A. Murphy commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

Yeah, I don't get that one either. Can you imagine spending 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands on a vehicle? Give me an old VW bug any day of the week! Actually I wish I had my old bug now.

11 hours ago

Sabrina Batikh replied to Sabrina Batikh's discussion 'Why are there religions?'

It seems to be that most people need a deeper sense of meaning to their lives and to life in general than science can offer. For many people, science feels to impersonal, technical, and removed from nature in that nature is analyzed too much and is…

11 hours ago

Eric Ryser commented on James Wargacki's blog post 'Proud Dad Moment'

Awesome logical comment from a such a little boy, would have made me proud as well. My little girl is 6 so I'm trying to have the same attitude with her, to balance her love of cartoons and toys and other fun nonsense with reality-based observation…

11 hours ago

John D. commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

Or drive around in a car which has a monthly payment of what it would cost to feed an entire family in Africa for a year.

11 hours ago

Bo V Herlin replied to Paul Harrison's discussion 'Nature of the Universe'

Since I don't think there is an 'Is' of the Universe with a global consciousness it still seems possible that the Universe may have produced beings that are capable to imagine it better than the Universe itself is capable to do on a global scale. Ev…

12 hours ago

Bo V Herlin replied to Paul Harrison's discussion 'Nature of the Universe'

If there ever were nothing at all, not even a god, it is hard to see how anything could appear without this appearance being an extremely improbable 'supernatural event' in itself. If such a beginning is postulated it would be very tempting to also…

12 hours ago

Ragbag Bugurian replied to Peter Hall's discussion 'Life and Death'

The problem is always practical in how do you enforce doomsday driven policies on free people with the caveat the it is "for their own good"? Essentially it is like saying to a child "because I am the mommy, that's why". It doesn't seem to work out…

12 hours ago

Gary P. Olson commented on World Pantheism's group 'Thought of the Day'

"Nothing is written." Peter O'Toole from the movie "Lawrence of Arabia"

13 hours ago

Jody A. Murphy commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

Yep, totally irresponsible and shows no regard for human life. It's the lack of accountability for one's actions that really burns me. There's so much good we can do in the world - I don't get how some people can just sit passively by and believe th…

13 hours ago

Jay Cavanaugh commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

I have no problem with Jesus taking the wheel, as long as he leaves the car in "park". Man! I really hate the fact that we have people driving on our roads and operating in sensitive areas with this dangerous and careless attitude.

14 hours ago

Jody A. Murphy commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

I agree that there are different versions of prayer and they should be considered in their context. Meditation is great - very healthy. Periods of deep thought and reflection on what we truly value in life and what we want to accomplish are very hea…

14 hours ago

Heather Hall commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

For some reason I missed the second page of replies, I'm really enjoying this conversation. I just recently got a link sent to me comparing prayer to god with prayer to a jug of milk, with the possible outcomes of no, yes, or wait. If one were to pr…

14 hours ago

Jason Kometer commented on World Pantheism's group 'Thought of the Day'

It is all in the MIND...

14 hours ago

Heather Hall commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

I like 'I don't know'

14 hours ago

John D. commented on World Pantheism's group 'Pantheist Parenting'

I use this verse for support, Matthew 21:22-23 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' an…

16 hours ago

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.

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

… Continue

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.

… Continue

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

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Heavy Rain in Uruguay

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