Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I very much so know what my beliefs are, and some terminology to describe them. However, I want a precise and accurate way of describing myself so when people search for it on Google they understand exactly where I fall on these issues.
Syntheism literally means to create God. However, I don't believe we are creating God. God already exists. It is the The Omniverse. However, what I believe is so similar to "creating God" that I might just well call myself a syntheist. We are creating divinity, not God. Entropy and extropy are the actions that produce change and that change if impactful enough creates a divine force in the world.
As far as pantheistic / gnostic / syncretism goes, The Omniverse is God, so I am a pantheist. It is possible to know more about this God in our own universe, as well as the divinity, or positive change that it brings. So my faith is gnostic in nature. The syncretism comes in when understanding that all religions literally creates Gods from their own idealism. However, my beliefs are: there is one God, it is The Omniverse, the Ultimate Being, Nature, and action / change / divinity exists as entropy and extropy, which anything is possible. Thus I call myself trinitarian pantheist.
I call myself Exaltist, have a website for it, and if you search it on Google you'll find all kinds of things I have wrote. It does explain my thoughts very well. My problem with it is, it's too broad. The adherence to raising the divinity, or exalting, things boils everything down so easily for me, but I'm looking for a word that already exists and I don't have to point towards my literature in order for people to understand.
My camp of theology falls around the syntheists, Earthseed, Terasem, the Turing Church among other religious transhumanists, but is separate because of the notion that God already exists as Nature. The reason why I know Nature is God is because of the divinity we create - do you understand? So there's all kinds of terms I can use to already express what i'm trying to say. I could simply fall back on Exaltism and be done with it too. However I don't want to be that self-important.
The word doesn't need to be an actual word, it can be fabricated in the English language. Take any two prefix and suffixes together, combine them, make a new word. "Create" - syn, "divinity" itself is a suffix. I do like the idea of "syndivinement", and calling myself a "syndiviner". Of course, nobody would really know what the hell I am talking about when expressing such terminology, leading me back to the same problem I had before. Plus I like Exaltist Ethan as my online nickname better than Syndiviner Ethan too.
This is only going to change two things: my Facebook religious description and my RF religious description. My website is staying exactly the same, and I have built up a small cult following from Exaltism already. There is another word I have tried to used to describe me as well, derived from my "All becoming divine" concept, the pantheosis. I was possibly thinking about using the term, "pantheosism" and "pantheosist" to describe myself, however it leads to the same problems as before and is just another fancy word to describe the process of Exaltism.
So now I bring this back to you, the reader. I may be thinking about this too much and there's no need to do anything about this. I understand that. Honestly, what I've been really thinking about doing is as religion I put something like: "Read Signature" and my signature would have something like...
"I know and have knowledge that humans are divine beings trying to use our extropy to understand and harness the power of Nature, Thee God, The Omniverse. We are in the process of controlling the entire Omniverse with our technology, generosity, wisdom, sovereignty and unity as we resurrect the dead and we create a more divine, and fair, Omniverse. Nature outputs energy in entropic ways but we will eventually have the power to control that output from an orderly fashion."
And there, that's my whole belief system in one paragraph, mostly.
Let me know what you think. What would you call me?
Syntheism literally means to create God. However, I don't believe we are creating God. God already exists. It is the The Omniverse. However, what I believe is so similar to "creating God" that I might just well call myself a syntheist. We are creating divinity, not God. Entropy and extropy are the actions that produce change and that change if impactful enough creates a divine force in the world.
As far as pantheistic / gnostic / syncretism goes, The Omniverse is God, so I am a pantheist. It is possible to know more about this God in our own universe, as well as the divinity, or positive change that it brings. So my faith is gnostic in nature. The syncretism comes in when understanding that all religions literally creates Gods from their own idealism. However, my beliefs are: there is one God, it is The Omniverse, the Ultimate Being, Nature, and action / change / divinity exists as entropy and extropy, which anything is possible. Thus I call myself trinitarian pantheist.
I call myself Exaltist, have a website for it, and if you search it on Google you'll find all kinds of things I have wrote. It does explain my thoughts very well. My problem with it is, it's too broad. The adherence to raising the divinity, or exalting, things boils everything down so easily for me, but I'm looking for a word that already exists and I don't have to point towards my literature in order for people to understand.
My camp of theology falls around the syntheists, Earthseed, Terasem, the Turing Church among other religious transhumanists, but is separate because of the notion that God already exists as Nature. The reason why I know Nature is God is because of the divinity we create - do you understand? So there's all kinds of terms I can use to already express what i'm trying to say. I could simply fall back on Exaltism and be done with it too. However I don't want to be that self-important.
The word doesn't need to be an actual word, it can be fabricated in the English language. Take any two prefix and suffixes together, combine them, make a new word. "Create" - syn, "divinity" itself is a suffix. I do like the idea of "syndivinement", and calling myself a "syndiviner". Of course, nobody would really know what the hell I am talking about when expressing such terminology, leading me back to the same problem I had before. Plus I like Exaltist Ethan as my online nickname better than Syndiviner Ethan too.
This is only going to change two things: my Facebook religious description and my RF religious description. My website is staying exactly the same, and I have built up a small cult following from Exaltism already. There is another word I have tried to used to describe me as well, derived from my "All becoming divine" concept, the pantheosis. I was possibly thinking about using the term, "pantheosism" and "pantheosist" to describe myself, however it leads to the same problems as before and is just another fancy word to describe the process of Exaltism.
So now I bring this back to you, the reader. I may be thinking about this too much and there's no need to do anything about this. I understand that. Honestly, what I've been really thinking about doing is as religion I put something like: "Read Signature" and my signature would have something like...
"I know and have knowledge that humans are divine beings trying to use our extropy to understand and harness the power of Nature, Thee God, The Omniverse. We are in the process of controlling the entire Omniverse with our technology, generosity, wisdom, sovereignty and unity as we resurrect the dead and we create a more divine, and fair, Omniverse. Nature outputs energy in entropic ways but we will eventually have the power to control that output from an orderly fashion."
And there, that's my whole belief system in one paragraph, mostly.
Let me know what you think. What would you call me?
