You are all Foundationists!

You are all Foundationists…

…unless you specifically opt out. :wink:

Finally opening up my religious resource site to full public view, and creating a new philosophy of belief in the process. :wink:

http://foundationist.org/

Just thought I’d let you know. :slight_smile:

Brian

From your website:

I would just like to say that you were flipping robbed the other day on Ready Steady Cook. Ain’t no way that the green peppers should have won.

BTW, any chance of Ainsley’s autograph?

Well, I opt out. I read partway through your About section and I found a few concepts I do not embrace and cannot reconcile with myself.

For example, I never felt the presence of Something Else. I just didn’t. Saying we all do and going on to say atheists are merely opposed to organized religion is wrong, and I cannot join any group that thinks that.

I’ll have to opt out too. I have no use for any religion, organized or not.

So foundationism=theism? That’s not saying very much at all.

Actually, it’s not Theism. :slight_smile:

Also - forgot to mention, in case of interest to anyone - I’m also hosting what appears to be the largest online collection of New Testament Apocrypha.

Alas, I fear the problem is that I have simply failed to provide a proper frame of reference to the term. I have tried to address the notion of agnosticism itself in this article here, written after more than one agnostic objected -

Foundationism vs Agnosticism

Interesting site, I, Brian. I like the design.

Mind, as a non-Christian, I don’t really feel the need to put any more labels on my “belief” (if that), other than “NC”.

Oh, and BTW: there’s a typo in the last paragraph of your intro page – “material”.

Peace to you. :slight_smile:

Sorry, I already automatically opt out of all opt-out religions by default.

I’d like to hear a little bit more about your dental plan before I make a final decision.

Opting out–happy as a Christian!

So this thread has nothing to do with Asimov?

Nothhing at all?

Then, I’m definitely opting out.

Opting out here. I to never felt that there was ‘something else’.
I am anti-religeon.

I’m with DocCathode. Anyone want to create a religion based on Asimov’s Foundation series, while we’re all here?

Ah, now really, why base a religion on Asimov, when Clarke is much the superior writer? Anyone for Clarkism? :wink:

If we want to base a religion on the work of a science fiction writer, the only choice is Jose Luis Borges.

“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”-- A reference to an imaginary country leads the author deeper into a different linguistic reality.

“The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” – A review of a work of detective fiction concerned with the quest for an unreal person.

“Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” – Borges explains why Menard’s twentieth century (but identical) Quixote is superior to that of Cervantes’.

“The Circular Ruins” – A mystic visionary attempts to dream a human into being.

“The Babylon Lottery” – The history of a society ruled by the random, invisible, and godlike Company.

“An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain” – Reviews of three strange pieces of fiction by a very unusual author.

“The Library of Babel” – The tale of a man, perhaps Borges himself, a caretaker in the Library of infinity.

“The Garden of Forking Paths” – A unique spy story about an impossible book and a mythical labyrinth
Capsule Reviews From Here

I have read the tread, but I opt out.

Even Bush isn’t drafting people–I sure as H-E-Double Toothpicks ain’t gettin’ drafted by you. :stuck_out_tongue:

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subsribe to your newsletter.

But as for Brian… Sorry, I have to opt out. Because, when it comes right down to it, I do have precepts, assumptions, and conditions. Though I greatly admire the effort put into this, I have a profound beliefe in and reverence for a Supreme Being. I also think that Science and God can be reconciled. So, maybe I have “Foundationistic Christian” views… I still call myself Christian.

I’ll be adding your site to “My Favorites,” and will check back often. (I registered.)

You know, I’ve got to say that this is really quite insulting. I’m not sure if it’s more or less insulting that the Mormons baptizing my ancestors in proxy, but it certainly is of the same category of rudeness.

I pretty much agree with you.
Personally, I don’t find it particularly insulting, wrongly presumptuous and slightly arrogant maybe.

Thanks, but no thanks. :wink: