Annotations about religion

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Fri, 13 Jan 1995 13:36:25 +0300


Apparently someone is taking our annotation mechanism in PCP-Web seriously,
and is filling in some nodes that we have left empty until now. That will
teach us about being so lazy! I hope some PRNCYB subscribers will follow
the lead and help us to extend PCP-Web in this way.

Below are the texts of annotations made, respectively, to the empty nodes
*God (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/*God.html) and *Pantheism
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/*Pantheism.html).

Francis

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Author: YON Jan C. Hardenbergh (jch@oki.com)
Date: 11 Jan 1995

Parent Node(s):

God (annotated node) [empty]

Monotheism, Polytheism, Agnosticism
Might as well round out the theism theme.

Monotheism - only one god - Christian (if you ignore that trinity
stuff), Judaism and Islam are the big ones.

Polytheism - many gods, all myth systems, Greek, Roman, Norse,
Babylonian, Egyptian, North American Natives,...

Agnostics believe that we cannot know anything about the nature
of the gods or whether there really is anything of a higher
power.

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Author: F. Heylighen
Date: 13 Jan 1995

REPLY:

Thanks for filling this in. We should have done it ourselves a long time
ago, but there are so many things to be done... We hope to have more
detailed explanations of these concepts soon.

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Author: YON Jan C. Hardenbergh (jch@oki.com)
Date: 11 Jan 1995

Parent Node(s):

Pantheism (annotated node) [empty]

pan = all, theo = god

Pantheism is the belief that god is inherent in all things.

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Dr. Francis Heylighen Systems Researcher
PO, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B -1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32-2-629 25 25; Fax: +32-2-629 24 89 (**new numbers!)
Email:fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be; URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html