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A Pandeist responds to Brendan Engen on the Congruence of Altizer’s Death of God Theology and Pandeism (review) by Pandeism Fish
Welcome to a question-answering node of the Pandeism index!!


A few weeks back, psychologist-philosopher Dr. Brendan C. Engen of the The Eupatheia Center found me via Facebook to share his essay, "The God Who Becomes the World: A Dialectical Investigation into the Congruence of Altizer's Death of God Theology and Pandeism," published on Medium March 27, 2025. Notoriously being a Pandeist myself (for the uninitiated, an espouser of the theological proposition that our Creator wholly became our Universe), I was delighted to dive in, especially since Engen indicated that he had drawn some measure of inspiration from my own books on the subject. And what followed was indeed a delightful…
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coreutils (thing) by wertperch
GNU Coreutils is a package of essential utilities used in Unix-like operating systems. It provides a set of basic command-line tools that perform common tasks related to file manipulation, text processing, and system operations. Coreutils is a central part of the GNU operating system, x, and many of its tools are commonly found in Linux shells in line with POSIX standards. Some of the key utilities included in GNU Coreutils are:
basename – Strip directory and suffix from
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tabs vs. spaces (idea) by wertperch

In the coding world, a holy wars battle that is still occasionally fought.


"Use 4 spaces per indentation level."
` —Python PEP coding indentation standard


When writing code, programmers like to format their source code for a variety of reasons. Imagine reading the code listed below (taken from the Linux kernel source code). You will see, among

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