Are you spiritual? Are your religious? Do you practice?
I used to be an actual pastor in our local church, like teaching bible and shit when I was 11 - 14 cause my mother was an obsessed npd with christian complex.
I am a complete atheist but I still carry all the virtues/principles with me and they still restrict me till this very day. By choice of course.
I don't believe in spirituality, I know that everything has a logical explanation that can be pin pointed through history/philosophy/science and even better pure experience.
Are you spiritual?
Ish, but from a nonspiritual base.
I'm starting to ascribe more to the word 'intention' than before, and adopting some YOLO principles.
Are your religious?
Nope. At most I try to take some elements in religions to either find the common grounds between them for comparisons, or I try to find mystic claims within them for their room to be demystified for their uses (such as observing the connections between Symbology and Graphic Design).
There definitely is a sense of magic to much of this world, but penning it as religious phenomenon misses the point.
Do you practice?
Unintentionally.
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I used to be an actual pastor in our local church, like teaching bible and shit when I was 11 - 14 cause my mother was an obsessed npd with christian complex.
You were a pastor at age 11?
I am a complete atheist but I still carry all the virtues/principles with me and they still restrict me till this very day. By choice of course.
Ex-Christian Atheists are some of the most screwball people when it comes to trying to understand power dynamics, as well as for escaping black and white thinking about gender.
I don't believe in spirituality, I know that everything has a logical explanation that can be pin pointed through history/philosophy/science and even better pure experience.
While I don't believe in spirits, I think some allowance for spirituality is needed to then denature it towards something less mystical.
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Yawn.
It really makes your claims look fragile when you can't even back them up, just saying.
If you don't mind looking like you have no weight behind your words then by all means, look like a person who makes broad claims and doesn't defend them.
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Turncoat said:Ish, but from a nonspiritual base.
I'm starting to ascribe more to the word 'intention' than before, and adopting some YOLO principles.What do you mean by this?
Which part?
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Spirituality often seems to involve a sort of leap of faith that I can't get on board with. Even with Buddhism that is pretty forgiving in this regard, I can't get behind some of the basic principles about personal conduct.
That being said, I also don't think spirituality is a bad thing for most in that it can enable some part of a person's psyche to feel more in line with something greater. And there is something to be gained from understanding a mechanism so powerful that it changes lives, even makes people willing to die in the pursuit of it. There's a utility that comes from seeing a sort of finality in things, but I haven't personally found an adequate source.