Pantheism updated

Why pantheism sucks

(The) One (GOD/RULE¹), because same for all,² has no identity,³ hence is not communicable. Because not communicable (the) One cannot increase (my) survival capacity, therefore sucks.⁴

My One (God/Rule⁵), hence the One customised^6,7,8 for my⁹ benefit, has identity, hence is communicable. Because communicable My One (God/Rule) increases my survival capacity.^10,11

In short, pantheism ‘sucks’ because it’s indifferent.

© 2020 by Victor Langheld

Analysis (The) One (GOD/RULE^1), because same for all,^2 has no identity,^3 hence is not communicable. Because not communicable (the) One cannot increase (my) survival capacity, therefore sucks.^4 My One (God/Rule^5), hence the One customised^6,7,8 for my^9 benefit, has identity, hence is communicable. Because communicable My One (God/Rule) increases my survival capacity.^10,11 In short, pantheism ‘sucks’ because it’s indifferent. © 2020 by Victor Langheld

1. i.e. Pantheos, i.e. one (unselected) size, shape, hat, lipstick or GOD that fits/suits all hence does not give me (or my family, my tribe, my nation) a survival edge (and no reason to go to war to murder, pillage and rape, i.e. to predate). 2. Same is ‘not different’, hence cannot make a difference. Sameness lacks attributes (i.e. difference), (to wit: Sanskrit: nirguna) which alone can communicate. Sameness ensues if and when difference is compressed out. Or, to explain it in the ancient Buddhist way: ‘Nirvana ensues if and when painful turbulence (Pali: vana) that causes difference subsides.’ 3. For ‘identity’ read: a quantum of difference deriving from the imposition of an alternate constraints set/procedure, thus an attribute, that identifies. 4. Since all emergents operate as dynamic, i.e. thermo-dynamic procedures, they automatically dissipate (i.e. ‘suck’) energy (i.e. decay) unless recharged (by communicating-cum-predating thermo-dynamic quanta identified by difference). In short, there’s no communication between the same, hence all dissipate to maximum entropy. 5. i.e. Henotheos, i.e. the one (selected, hence bespoke) size, shape, hat, lipstick of God fits/suits me and so gives me (or my family, my tribe, my nation) a survival edge (i.e. as defence mechanism and as reason to go to war and/or murder, pillage and rape, i.e. to predate). 6. For ‘customized’ read: selected, tailor-made, bespoke, specifically tweaked, adapted, thus cultured. Customized means superimposing a selected (for survival increase) rule, hence adaptation, upon the given (or same for all) natural (because common to all) rules template. 7. Hence the ancient Greek comment on (the different) religions, namely “Custom, custom!” 8. i.e. differentiated, thus identifiable, thus capable of making contact. 9. Expand ‘my’ to mean: my family, horde, tribe, clan, cluster of like-minded, nation and so on. 10. My (differentiated) ONE God (as monarch and, of necessity predator) is identifiable by his/her bespoke difference. As his/her adherent or follower I transfer that identity, i.e. his/her tweaked constraints-cum-rules set, to myself and behave or identify accordingly. My altered (i.e. henotheist) identity differentiates me from my previous peers who had no identity. Their previous identity, lost in sameness, now emerges as an alternate identity (i.e. the unbelievers and therefore enemies) and who now become legitimate prey. 11. Hence the justifiable denigration of the pantheist by the henotheist. For, the pantheist steals the henotheist’s thunder by eliminating the latter’s difference (i.e. ego constituents as an identifiable self).