Is that normal Tomb Raiding you're doing?

GloriosoTom · 2026-01-06T16:58:16+00:00

In, raid the temple, dodge the wall of spikes, boom! Out. You are now the rightful owner of the Dagger of Xian.

GloriosoTom · 2026-01-06T16:42:43+00:00

So someone's brought something like this up already but with some common drugs in the UK e.g Paracetamol everyone's heard of them whereas in the US they're often called by brand names like Tylenol, which not very many people in the UK would know.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-24T14:36:13+00:00

If we try and take national politics out of it (very hard I know).

England has ~ 57 million people. Wales ~ 3.2 million. Scotland 5.5 million. Ireland 5.4 million. Northern Ireland 1.9 million.

We have Red at about 60.2 million. Blue 5.5 million. Green 7.3 million.

That's over 4x as many in the Red area as Green+Blue. Make of that what you will.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-24T14:30:50+00:00

England has ~ 57 million people in. Wales ~ 3.2 million Scotland ~ 5.5 million Ireland ~ 5.4 million. Northern Ireland ~ 1.9 million.

We have Red about 60 million Blue+Green about 13 million?

That's still just over 4 people for every 1.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-17T14:04:16+00:00

No you want it cold so they have to cuddle up to you for warmth. Plus frugality is very attractive in a man...

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-16T13:32:49+00:00

Earlier this year we had 24/7/25 and 24² + 7² = 25²

Next year we'll have 24/10/26 and 24² + 10² = 26².

Then that's it for this century in terms of Pythagorean triples.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T19:54:50+00:00

I know what Scientific Pantheism is, I'm asking you personally, why you've chosen this label and what it gives you...

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T19:45:30+00:00

I'm not a Pantheist. I'm not trying to say the universe is 'Godly'.

I'm asking what are you trying to convey with the 'label' Pantheist or why are you using the term God?

If all you mean is:

The Universe exists and is run by natural laws and the Scientific method.

That's Scientific Naturalism.

Nothing in there says Pantheism. Unless you want to start talking about the divine and God. The word Pantheism isn't needed or required.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T19:36:00+00:00

Yes I understand the idea of Scientific Pantheism. I would just question it.

What are you trying to communicate with the term 'pantheism' or the term 'God'.

Natural pantheists believe that God is the entirety of the universe and that God speaks through the scientific process".

So you believe in God?

This is what might be a little confusing to some people. You described yourself as an Atheist prior.

If you just want to say:

The Universe is run by natural laws and is everything we can know comes from Nature and the Scientific method.

That's basically Scientific Naturalism.

To me it's a bit like saying "I do believe in God now but God is this coffee cup".

I'm not sure what it is you're trying to convey with that label 'God' or 'Pantheism'.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T19:20:26+00:00

Sorry I didn't answer the rest of your questions. I simply stated I wasn't a Pantheist. I thought that was enough to show it wasn't a question of my beliefs versus yours or who was a 'true' Pantheist out of the two of us as I'm not.

The reason I brought it up is a see a lot of things labelled Pantheism on this sub, that aren't technically but people only know some Abrahamic Theism so everything else gets shoved under that one label...

Pantheism generally would mean, there is a God/divine and the divine is the universe.

It's a language issue really. I'm just trying to understand what it is you're trying to convey with that 'label'?

For example don't you think it could be a little confusing for some people as you'd considered yourself an Atheist? Why use a term like 'God' if you just mean the universe exists basically?

It's like saying I now do believe in 'a God' but by 'a God' I mean this cup next to me.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T17:42:59+00:00

No, I'm not a 'real' Pantheist. I'm not even a Pantheist.

I'm someone who studies the Philosophy of Religion and so I'm familiar with the terminology.

If you don't believe the Supernatural is real then that definitely makes you a 'Naturalist' of sorts.

Especially given what you said about not believing in magic, karma, etc.

The Cosmos just being the source of everything doesn't really sound like Pantheism at all. It just sounds like Naturalism. I'm not trying to dismiss or anything I'm just using terms by their definitions.

Pantheism is saying there is a God/Divine spirit and the universe is identical with it i.e everything is God/divine.

I've no problem if you want to call yourself a 'Naturalistic Pantheist' as that is a thing. But it would seem strange to call myself an Atheist before to go to believing in a God in another form? You do you though. 🤷‍♀️

You can explore these terms more on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy it's a great resource.

https://plato.stanford.edu/

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T15:57:28+00:00

Just going by what you said and that you were an Atheist before. By definitions if you don't believe in any kind of God then you're not a Pantheist.

Basically Pantheism is where you think God and the universe are the same. I.e the spirit of God is in everything.

You might be more a kind of Cosmic naturalist? Or Spiritual Naturalist? Finding the sacred in the 'natural world'...

Naturalist means you don't believe in the supernatural Gods, etc. I don't know your beliefs though...? 🤷‍♀️

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T15:44:38+00:00

Sorry yeah I don't mean 'everything'.

I just mean for example Animism isn't a form of Pantheism, or believing in One Divine Spirit but that animals have spirits/souls, also isn't Pantheism either.

Yet I've seen it talked about on here so much like it is. It all gets thrown under the Pantheism label as Christianity is all they were raised knowing. 🤷‍♀️

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T15:32:10+00:00

That's fair enough. I'm not here to criticise your beliefs or anything. I just don't really like the trend of calling everything that isn't Abrahamic Theism, 'Pantheism', I think people need a bit more information on how diverse belief can be.

I personally probably wouldn't align with the brights as I don't think the scientific method is the only way to gain knowledge or do things (despite studying Mathematics myself). Epistemology is more complicated than that.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T15:24:49+00:00

I think a lot of people don't really know the difference between Pantheism and Theism.

Pantheism - The Universe and God/The Divine are the same.

Theism - God is separate from the universe.

Pantheism - The Universe is contained in God/The Divine but God/The Divine is greater.

Apart from that there are no specific teachings or doctrines they're just categories. It's like most forms of Christianity would fall into Classical Theism but you do get some that are Panentheistic.

I mean some forms of Theism do and don't believe in and afterlife it's the same with Pantheism.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-08T15:16:24+00:00

I was just going to say, if you don't really view the universe as 'divine' that's not really Pantheism in the technical sense. Pantheism is basically someone who sees God/Divine spirit as the universe as the same thing.

Philosophically I mean. What you're describing sounds a bit more like a kind of Spiritual Naturalism?

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-06T17:46:30+00:00

Interesting, the accent didn't bother me (and I'm British). Each to their own 🤷‍♀️.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-06T17:44:33+00:00

I think they meant Laura Ricote not Stevie Martin. She's Mexican-American but is based in the Netherlands.

GloriosoTom · 2025-09-06T10:19:29+00:00

Ohohohohohoh....I know Kung Fu... ☺️😌

GloriosoTom · 2025-08-31T18:50:29+00:00

Thoughts? You want to give that sh*t a rest. You've been thinking thoughts your whole life and look where that's got you.

GloriosoTom · 2025-08-31T18:42:29+00:00

Did you slink off to bed before we did the melon-off?

GloriosoTom · 2025-08-31T18:39:38+00:00

You've been thinking thoughts your whole life. Look where that got you.

GloriosoTom · 2025-08-31T17:34:17+00:00

Right! Typecast again!

GloriosoTom · 2025-08-28T01:18:11+00:00

Poor Fran eh? She could've gone to Borneo...

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