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Atheist Riddle

What is the difference between an atheist and a panentheist? Atheists cannot discover any signs of divinity outside ourselves While the panentheist uncovers what organizes interior landscapes and climates. In Buddhism we have a principle of Emptiness and a correlated principle of Interdependence. Atheists stop rather abruptly with the Emptiness platform while panentheists are so bogged down by all us Interdependents, sorting through co-dependent relationships but without the therapy bills, Emptiness feels like an unfamiliar but theoretically welcome relief, like solitude before it turns into sour loneliness. So maybe a LeftBrain atheist is also a RightBrain panentheist, and the two together is a Buddhist. There is no inconsistency here. just two faces of the eternally timeless, just as time is lost to sensory review when it becomes most sacredly replete. Other than that, one is harder to spell and takes a whole lot longer to fully articulate.

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Date: 10/2/2016 3:28:00 PM
I look no deeper than there can be no creator when you see starving children, cancer, wars, etc you live you die the end As a way of life Buddhism as a lot to offer attended meditation classes for about 5 years and was impressed with the outlook on life.
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Stephen Pennell
Date: 10/3/2016 1:23:00 PM
the seeker I also believe people should follow their own path i can tell you hold strong beliefs and it is not for me to stand witness one way or the other, go in peace , I answered gerald with a honest answer to his post I have just seen to much to believe . so dont think bad of us seeker and remember Luke 9:52-56 and move on all the best stephen x
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 10/2/2016 5:07:00 PM
My sentiments exactly. When I serve starving and permanently hurt children, when I watch the not-really-news-this-badness, when I struggle with public health care and health development security, and climate health v pathology, I cannot see or even hope to find an omnipotent creator, as we do not yet have omnipotently win-win ecopolitical creation-regeneration powers, or we do, together, but we have not yet sufficiently organized these cooperative economies into a global climate network for health sustainability.

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