BBella\'s Universe (Introduction)
by xeno6696 
, Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 03:31 (4721 days ago) @ David Turell
You see Mother Earth as a conscious, sentient being, but more emotional than intellectual, while ALL THAT IS presumably constitutes the whole universe.
If we jettison all concepts of God in favour of a creative force we call ALL THAT IS, I don’t see how anyone can object. It’s only if we ascribe particular attributes to this force that problems emerge. “Sentient†is one of them.
Baruch Spinoza is needed here. Like him I believe that the force or intellect of God is within everything, all that is. Sentient, and perhaps emotional. After all, emotions are part of consciousness. I don't think bbella and I are far apart.
Or we resurrect Heraclitus and process theology from the dustbin of history... God as the constant state of becoming is much more fitting than the old man in a wide-brimmed hat...
--
\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"
\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"
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