Guyus Seralius

@guyus_seralius from The Universe

I should first explain that I base all my views on what the universe has taught me so far, on all that I have learned from classrooms, books, magazines, television, family and friends, along with all my own personal life experiences and many hours of deep contemplation. For instance, the scientific discovery that matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed has helped me conclude that the universe has always existed and always will. I have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for science and the scientific method and believe it is one of the best approaches to predicting and understanding the world. However, I also have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for philosophical thought which aims to be rooted in logic and reason and can help us to responsibly leap beyond the scientific data so as not to become lost in the numbers and the details. I hope to share all my philosophical discoveries with others, so they may see it as I see it. The universe is a remarkable, awesome thing! _______________________________________________________________________________________ My views can best be described as a branch or subset of pantheism; the view that the entire universe is God or that which is the constant causation of our existence. It is also a form of dialectic or dualistic monism, which is the view that all of reality is ultimately a unified whole but must express itself in dualistic terms (often depicted by the Yin-Yang symbol) like two sides of the same coin. My views have often been compared to those of Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Alan Watts, and Eckhart Tolle. Growing up, I was greatly influenced, in passing, by Eastern philosophy and became interested in many of the classic Greek philosophers. So some of my views are similar, but not limited to, Plato’s Ideal Forms, Emmerson’s law of compensation, the scientific law of conservation, and Eastern views like the law of attraction, reincarnation, karma, and Buddha’s middle way. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 'Panmeism' is a word I created to express my own personal tailored views of pantheism. The term literally means ‘all me’ or all is me. At its core, it expresses the view that each can view him or herself to be the entire universe, an infinite system of positive and negative forces that has always existed and always will, because it requires the whole universe in order to exist (in order for anything to exist), and because it is all, ultimately, connected into a single concert. You are the summation of all things, you are that single cosmic concert. Nothing can exist outside the All, nor be independent of it. All things are ultimately interconnected, all is one, and the universe, overall, is ultimately balanced. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I am under the impression that the universe is an infinite system, which has always existed and always will, and that each of us can consider him or herself to be at the apex of that infinite and forever system. I believe this infinite and forever system, which I often call “The Forever All,” is required in order for any of us to exist. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I strongly believe there is a profound meaning and purpose to it all and an inherent goodness, which can never be destroyed. Unfortunately, I believe there is also an inherent darkness, which too can never be destroyed. There can’t be one without the other. But, ultimately, these two forces remain conserved and balanced. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I’ve come to realize that neither science nor religion, independent of the other, can provide a satisfactory explanation to our existence and the existence of the world. I believe ultimate truth will arise only when the scientific thinkers join hands with the spiritual thinkers. Yes, the world can be viewed as a mechanical thing, but at the same time, it is an awesome, divine thing, which ultimately goes beyond full understanding. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I understand that many of my fellow pantheists may not share this view of the self as the universe or that the universe is eternal, that it has always existed and always will. This is to be expected and respected, for we pantheists have a wide range of views that may often vary under the broad umbrella term of pantheism, so no hard feelings if you don't share in my personal version of pantheism, which I call panmeism. You are still my fellow pantheists! ________________________________________________________________________________________ I also believe we have reached a critical point in our history when the ideal society can be truly realized if we can all just learn to work together. Now is the time to permanently throw out the out-dated idea “It’s every man for himself,” and instead adopt the much more compassionate slogan, “All for one and one for all.” Therefore, I invite all thinkers, spiritual and/or scientific to read my essays here at pantheism.com and to eventually visit my personal blog site at guyus.wordpress.com along with view some of my pantheistic YouTube videos at www.youtube.com/guyusseralius _______________________________________________________________________________________ Also check out my Facebook at www.facebook.com/guyus.seralius (and feel free to send me a Friend Request) as well as my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/panmeism _______________________________________________________________________________________ Enjoy! ________________________________________________________________________________________ Guyus Seralius

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Peter Moriarty of Los Angeles, California posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Biotheism December 23, 2016 @ 8:28 am

This is new. Thanks Perry and Charles for all you’ve done to make this a reality. I look forward to getting involved and finding my own space here on Pantheism.com!
- Peter Moriarty replied
  Peter Moriarty replied December 23, 2016 @ 8:28 am
  
  Looks great!
  Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied December 26, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
  
  Thanks Peter. Glad to see you created your group! I am going to change your group name to “Biotheism” (dropping the ‘1’), since I know you are the original creator. Did you possibly try to create the group, stop and then try again? A number should be appended only if an identical group name exists, that is, after a (non-numbered) first group is…[Read more]
Peter Moriarty of The Universe created the international Schools of Pantheism group Biotheism December 23, 2016 @ 8:26 am
Charles Beebe of Los Angeles posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 22, 2016 @ 1:47 pm

“1” versus ” 1″ versus ” 1 “
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:52 pm
  
  Well, at least I can replicate one weird behavior: if you place a space before your word, but not after and enclose it in quotes, it treats it as a ditto mark.
  Perry Rod replied
  
  Perry Rod replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:56 pm
  
  Another reply issue… the first word appears to have an added space at the beginning of the sentence; also, the time is off
Guyus Seralius of The Universe posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – TEXT CHANGES December 22, 2016 @ 1:15 pm

The only possible suggestions I would give at the moment is changing some of the main menu labels and/or their order, such as changing ‘INFO’ to something warmer and inviting like ‘HOME’ or “WELCOME’ or ‘About Us,’ placing ‘NEWS’ to the far right at the end or second to last, changing ‘VIEWS’ to ‘POSTS’ or ‘FEED’ or ‘TIMELINE’ (‘VIEWS’ confused me…[Read more]
- Perry Rod replied
  Perry Rod replied December 22, 2016 @ 6:45 pm
  
  We started out calling the tabs:
  
  What’s Pantheism | News | Perspectives | Community
  
  Then, we tried to simplify and make them shorter words. But you make great points, maybe we’ll do a poll of a few of us and try to get it better
  Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied December 22, 2016 @ 6:55 pm
  
  Oh, I definitely like “What’s Pantheism” and “Community” as main menu label possibilities. “Perspectives” is the only one that would worry me as far as most people understanding what that label is for. I’m sure you and Charles are constantly working on this site to build it up and get it going. The other thing I’m excited to see are the member’s…[Read more]
Jon Hoskins of Ocean Shores, Washington posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 22, 2016 @ 12:11 pm

Windows 10 Pro, Chrome browser. I’ve noted that formatting, at least in publishing “Articles”, is not wholly preserved between viewing the article from a direct link to it and viewing it in the editor or on my personal time line. The latter is correct. When I click the link in my timeline, some of the formatting is lost.

The attached photo…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 12:53 pm
  
  Thanks for the report, @jon_hoskins. This was a styling (CSS) issue…I call for the first (Featured) image to float left…but my code was actually catching and overriding all the image alignments thereafter. This is now fixed. The only thing I couldn’t fix was the layout you were going for by adding in an extra div before the last paragraph. I…[Read more]
  Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:31 pm
  
  Just trying to do what I can to test the site and report problems I might find. Getting my articles to format properly is of secondary concern. 😉
  
  Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:32 pm
  
  What about formatting it similar to FB “Notes” (which I have grown fond of) in that any “featured” image acts as a header, centered across the top, with text and any additional content following below?
Jon Hoskins of Ocean Shores, Washington posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 22, 2016 @ 10:15 am

Created the sub group \”Audiophile\” under \”Arts & Music\”. The platform insists on appending \” 1\” to the name of the subgroup. Is this intended, with purpose, or a bug? Is there a way to remove the addition?
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 11:24 am
  
  Hi John, that was actually on purpose. Based on the Activity record (the ‘Feed’ on the first Social/Groups page), I see you first created the group ‘Audiophile’ (i.e., you successfully created the group without a “1” appended). Then you created it again, and the system automatically appended ‘-1’. I don’t anticipate this happening often, but IF…[Read more]
  Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 11:27 am
  
  Thanks Charles! I actually experienced this with my FIRST attempt at making the group as well. I wondered if I had accidentally missed the opportunity to correct it so I deleted the group and gave it another go. To be clear, both attempts ended with the ” 1″ appendage.
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:26 pm
  
  Hi @jon_hoskins, can you please tell me what platform you were using to create the original post, above (beginning with “Created the sub group”)? Were you on a mobile device? I’m trying to pinpoint when the quote marks are posting with an “escape” (a \ slash) in front of it. It didn’t happen in your later post, and it’s not all Windows OSes.
  Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 23, 2016 @ 7:53 am
  
  Hi @charles_beebe, I have only interfaced with this platform using my desktop PC. Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, latest Chrome.
Jon Hoskins of The Universe created the international Arts & Music group Audiophile December 22, 2016 @ 10:06 am
Charles Beebe of Los Angeles posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 21, 2016 @ 3:59 pm

Attempting to replicate user location bug
Charles Beebe of Los Angeles posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – TEXT CHANGES December 21, 2016 @ 3:37 pm

Google News

https://news.google.com/#0

Comprehensive, up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied December 21, 2016 @ 3:39 pm
  
  This worked from an iPhone, although it had a delay in displaying the link…I added it without the preview showing up. It displayed properly after posting.
Charles Beebe of Los Angeles posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – TEXT CHANGES December 21, 2016 @ 3:33 pm

Test link from iPad

Imagine One Wisdom Religion | Theosophy Watch

https://theosophywatch.com/2014/07/31/imagine-one-wisdom-religion/

THERE was, during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion. There were no churches, no creeds or sects, but every man was a priest unto himself. No…

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Charles Beebe of The Universe created the international Health & Wellness group Vegan Living December 21, 2016 @ 12:00 pm
Charles Beebe of The Universe created the international Books & Reading group Pantheism Book Club December 21, 2016 @ 11:40 am
- Anna de Omnia replied
  Anna de Omnia replied January 2, 2017 @ 7:13 pm
  
  Im wondering if you get a ‘notification’ of some sort, like facebook, when i comment on your post. Please let me know 🙂
  Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:18 am
  
  Thanks for the question! I did and do, @anna_lowell! 🙂 Also, like Twitter and FB, putting an @ symbol in front of a username (a ‘mention’) is another way to notify another user of a message. That’s useful if you’re starting a new thread, as opposed to responding to a previous comment, like this. In the latter case, you get notified regardless of…[Read more]
Matt Lehmann of Cottleville, Missouri posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 20, 2016 @ 9:36 pm

more people from cottleville who really aren’t.
- Perry Rod replied
  
  Perry Rod replied December 21, 2016 @ 12:41 am
  
  interesting… I see this too:
  
  Poffo Ortiz of Las Vegas created the international Schools of Pantheism group Omnideism
  May 11, 2016 @ 12:32 am
  
  It might be how newer code is impacting old posts. Thanks very much for letting us know!
Matt Lehmann of Cottleville, Missouri posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 20, 2016 @ 9:36 pm

also pictures are showing up MUCH smaller than they actually are.
Matt Lehmann of Cottleville, Missouri posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 20, 2016 @ 9:35 pm

just joined and was amazed to find the first three people looked at in groups were from my city…….until I realized they weren’t.

also wanted to add more than one picture to show my bug….but i will add them as individual posts as I cant add more than one photo per post.
Fay Campbell of Anderson posted an update in the Writing & Poetry group United Writers December 12, 2016 @ 2:31 pm

Just celebrated the three year anniversary of publications of Naked Me (which has a section of my love affair with Nature) and Hell Outta Dodge, a fun novel. Both available on Amazon.
Fay Campbell of Anderson posted an update in the Writing & Poetry group United Writers December 12, 2016 @ 2:29 pm

I write a blog that mostly focuses on my journey into some nasty brain diagnoses. And to think, it’s my very favorite organ! Here’s a recent one, but feel free to read all of ’em at fay’soflife.blogspot.blog.
Compelled
I don’t know if this has anything to do with anything, but it is real enough for me

Tonight I felt a strong compulsion…[Read more]
- Connie Cuellar replied
  
  Connie Cuellar replied January 15, 2018 @ 3:46 pm
  
  I hope you have since overcome your diagnosis. I love the line “All that remains, all that matters, is love and knowledge.” I can relate.
Perry Rod of Las Vegas posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 8, 2016 @ 8:25 pm

Slashes appearing in posted text (on mobile)
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied December 8, 2016 @ 11:25 pm
  
  Those are escape marks, which the interpreter should be using internally to distinguish between quote marks in a string and quote marks as part of code–except obviously, it’s not working right. This is definitely a curious bug.
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied December 21, 2016 @ 3:27 pm
  
  I have just tested this on an iPad, iPhone and Desktop. Can’t replicate it yet. It may have been corrected in an update.
Perry Rod of Las Vegas posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – IMPROVEMENTS December 8, 2016 @ 8:21 pm

Very small input box on the phone
Charles Beebe of The Universe created the international Philosophical Discussions group The ’God’ Word October 24, 2016 @ 12:31 pm
- Chad Pauler replied
  Chad Pauler replied January 18, 2017 @ 6:09 pm
  
  Omg i live in midland what a strange coincidence. Thank you charles
  Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 19, 2017 @ 11:28 am
  
  Hmmm…sorry, Chad, that is a bug. I assume you saw “Charles Beebe of Midland, Michigan” when you clicked “See Local” in the Social feed, right? I think some of the older posts on here (when I was building the site) had an error that caused it to repeat whatever city YOU put in, showing it for other people’s locations. So unfortunately, it’s not a…[Read more]
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Peter Moriarty replied December 23, 2016 @ 8:28 am

Looks great!
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied December 26, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
  
  Thanks Peter. Glad to see you created your group! I am going to change your group name to “Biotheism” (dropping the ‘1’), since I know you are the original creator. Did you possibly try to create the group, stop and then try again? A number should be appended only if an identical group name exists, that is, after a (non-numbered) first group is…[Read more]

Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:52 pm

Well, at least I can replicate one weird behavior: if you place a space before your word, but not after and enclose it in quotes, it treats it as a ditto mark.
- Perry Rod replied
  
  Perry Rod replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:56 pm
  
  Another reply issue… the first word appears to have an added space at the beginning of the sentence; also, the time is off

Perry Rod replied
Perry Rod replied December 22, 2016 @ 6:45 pm

We started out calling the tabs:

What’s Pantheism | News | Perspectives | Community

Then, we tried to simplify and make them shorter words. But you make great points, maybe we’ll do a poll of a few of us and try to get it better
- Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied December 22, 2016 @ 6:55 pm
  
  Oh, I definitely like “What’s Pantheism” and “Community” as main menu label possibilities. “Perspectives” is the only one that would worry me as far as most people understanding what that label is for. I’m sure you and Charles are constantly working on this site to build it up and get it going. The other thing I’m excited to see are the member’s…[Read more]

Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 12:53 pm

Thanks for the report, @jon_hoskins. This was a styling (CSS) issue…I call for the first (Featured) image to float left…but my code was actually catching and overriding all the image alignments thereafter. This is now fixed. The only thing I couldn’t fix was the layout you were going for by adding in an extra div before the last paragraph. I…[Read more]
- Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:31 pm
  
  Just trying to do what I can to test the site and report problems I might find. Getting my articles to format properly is of secondary concern. 😉
- Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:32 pm
  
  What about formatting it similar to FB “Notes” (which I have grown fond of) in that any “featured” image acts as a header, centered across the top, with text and any additional content following below?

Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 11:24 am

Hi John, that was actually on purpose. Based on the Activity record (the ‘Feed’ on the first Social/Groups page), I see you first created the group ‘Audiophile’ (i.e., you successfully created the group without a “1” appended). Then you created it again, and the system automatically appended ‘-1’. I don’t anticipate this happening often, but IF…[Read more]
- Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 22, 2016 @ 11:27 am
  
  Thanks Charles! I actually experienced this with my FIRST attempt at making the group as well. I wondered if I had accidentally missed the opportunity to correct it so I deleted the group and gave it another go. To be clear, both attempts ended with the ” 1″ appendage.
Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied December 22, 2016 @ 1:26 pm

Hi @jon_hoskins, can you please tell me what platform you were using to create the original post, above (beginning with “Created the sub group”)? Were you on a mobile device? I’m trying to pinpoint when the quote marks are posting with an “escape” (a \ slash) in front of it. It didn’t happen in your later post, and it’s not all Windows OSes.
- Jon Hoskins replied
  
  Jon Hoskins replied December 23, 2016 @ 7:53 am
  
  Hi @charles_beebe, I have only interfaced with this platform using my desktop PC. Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, latest Chrome.

Charles Beebe replied

Charles Beebe replied December 21, 2016 @ 3:39 pm

This worked from an iPhone, although it had a delay in displaying the link…I added it without the preview showing up. It displayed properly after posting.

Anna de Omnia replied
Anna de Omnia replied January 2, 2017 @ 7:13 pm

Im wondering if you get a ‘notification’ of some sort, like facebook, when i comment on your post. Please let me know 🙂
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:18 am
  
  Thanks for the question! I did and do, @anna_lowell! 🙂 Also, like Twitter and FB, putting an @ symbol in front of a username (a ‘mention’) is another way to notify another user of a message. That’s useful if you’re starting a new thread, as opposed to responding to a previous comment, like this. In the latter case, you get notified regardless of…[Read more]

Perry Rod replied

Perry Rod replied December 21, 2016 @ 12:41 am

interesting… I see this too:

Poffo Ortiz of Las Vegas created the international Schools of Pantheism group Omnideism
May 11, 2016 @ 12:32 am

It might be how newer code is impacting old posts. Thanks very much for letting us know!

Connie Cuellar replied

Connie Cuellar replied January 15, 2018 @ 3:46 pm

I hope you have since overcome your diagnosis. I love the line “All that remains, all that matters, is love and knowledge.” I can relate.

Charles Beebe replied

Charles Beebe replied December 8, 2016 @ 11:25 pm

Those are escape marks, which the interpreter should be using internally to distinguish between quote marks in a string and quote marks as part of code–except obviously, it’s not working right. This is definitely a curious bug.
Charles Beebe replied

Charles Beebe replied December 21, 2016 @ 3:27 pm

I have just tested this on an iPad, iPhone and Desktop. Can’t replicate it yet. It may have been corrected in an update.

Chad Pauler replied
Chad Pauler replied January 18, 2017 @ 6:09 pm

Omg i live in midland what a strange coincidence. Thank you charles
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 19, 2017 @ 11:28 am
  
  Hmmm…sorry, Chad, that is a bug. I assume you saw “Charles Beebe of Midland, Michigan” when you clicked “See Local” in the Social feed, right? I think some of the older posts on here (when I was building the site) had an error that caused it to repeat whatever city YOU put in, showing it for other people’s locations. So unfortunately, it’s not a…[Read more]

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