Title: Process Philospher

Gender: Male

Age: 32

Sun Sign: Taurus

Chinese Sign: Fire Snake

Location: Pittsburg, KS

I consider myself a practical person who logically and reasonably searches out the truth of the ultimate nature of existence–wherever that may take me.

Below are some quotes that say things I would like to say but only better.
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“Life is hope or nothing much.  So let us hope and struggle.”

–Charles Hartshorne


Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitutes an interesting subject for study.

Alfred North Whitehead, The Function of Reason

What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality in heaven passes back into the world.  By reason of this reciprocal relation, the love in the world passes into the love in heaven, and floods back again into the world.  In this sense, God is the great companion–the fellow-sufferer who understands.

A.N. Whitehead (PR 351 corrected edition)

“Suddenly I raised it again.  Recovering my faith in my freedom by my freedom itself, without reasoning, without hesitation, without any other gauge of the excellence of my nature than this inner testimony that makes my soul created in the image of God and capable of resisting him, since it should obey him, I said to myself, in the security of a superb solitude: This is not so, I am free.

And the chimera of necessity disappeared, similar to the phantoms formed during the night by a play of shadow and light from the hearth, which immobilize the child with fear under the flamboyant eyes, who is woken with a start, still half lost in a dream.  Accomplice to the magic spell, he ignores the fact that he held it together himself by the fixity of his point of view, but as soon as he doubts it, he dispels it with a glance upon the first movement that he dares to make.”

Jules Lequyer

We are not Gods, and the belief that we know a book that will tell us exactly how God sees our problems is an arrogant claim…for a fair number of theists, fundamentalists and atheists are both 'parts of the problem' more than 'parts of the solution.' And the fundamentalists seem more numerous. Let them consider this: Do they really know beyond reasonable doubt what they affirm? Do they know exactly what in a book, any book, is of human, and what if anything is of wholly divine origin? Many great and learned people have thought this cannot be known by anyone other than God. Are these book worshipers that much more godlike than all those others?…religious belief is a privilege; it should not be used as a weapon to coerce others with.”

Charles Hartshorne (WM 135-136)

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

-Charles Darwin

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