Silver Birch: a nontheistic, friendly naturalist, curious about serendipity & synchronicity, & appreciative of Quakers, Rorty, Ecstasy & Loving Bliss

Thanks, nontheist Friends,


Yes, here now ... I'm a nontheistic, friendly naturalist, curious about serendipity and synchronicity, and appreciative of Quaker community, and Friendly pragmatic caring, for example, AFSC and FCNL ...



To complement your characterization of 'naturalism,' O, here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on 'Naturalism' - plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism.

In a related vein, I'm also sympathetic in a nontheistic Friendly way with Richard Rorty's thinking about Pragmatism. Here's a 46 second clip of him - youtube.com/watch?v=kBcOGa671QA - in an interview in Holland in 2000. This clip is excerpted from a fascinating hour long interview (section 23), which I've posted to World University & School's 'Pragmatism' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pragmatism, along with the 46 second clip. In the interview, this Stanford Professor of Comparative Literature and far-reaching philosopher talks about ecstasy at around the 28 minute mark (so I've also added this interview to WUaS's entry on Loving Bliss elicitation - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29:), in the context of naturalism; as a naturalist himself, Rorty was also a bird and orchid expert and he found ecstasy, personally, in nature. And here's World University & School's beginning 'Naturalism' page - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Naturalism - to which nontheist Friends might add articles. I've added Os' Friends' Journal article on Naturalism here. And as an open wiki, we can all teach and add to World University and School.

With friendly greetings,
Scott


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(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/silver-birch-nontheistic-friendly.html May 11, 2010)