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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 6:21 am
I suspect than many have a "religious impulse" (not sure what that even means) but not all
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 6:46 am
My religious impulse is tax exemption.
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:05 am
(September 4, 2023 at 12:28 am)Ahriman Wrote: I think every person has a religious impulse inside of them. For a lot of people, this impulse maifests as one of many known world religions. For others, such as atheists, this impulse manifests in different ways. I don't think this means every person is spiritual. It is possible to be "spiritual and religious" or "religious but not spiritual" but never "spiritual but not religious"
I'm definitely an atheist but sometimes I will say things like, "Oh God, yes! Oh, Jesus, I'm almost there!"
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:40 am
(September 4, 2023 at 8:05 am)LinuxGal Wrote: I'm definitely an atheist but sometimes I will say things like, "Oh God, yes! Oh, Jesus, I'm almost there!"
I spent all my life making woman scream that multiple multiple times.
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:57 am
It doesn't matter if God is real or not. Living as if God is real is the only way.
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:58 am
The only way for what? To show off how fucking gullible you are?
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:58 am
What does it mean to live as if God is real?
And why is it the only way?
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2023 at 9:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 4, 2023 at 6:21 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I suspect than many have a "religious impulse" (not sure what that even means) but not all
At it's skinniest form - the well-observed tendency to organize our groups from paleolithic family units all the way up to modern societies around ideas about what it means to live a good life, what you cannot do and what you cannot fail to do. That we as a species tend to have an idea of the way the world is, and the way it should be. The way we would make it, if we could.
We're fucking fantasists - all of us..and I say this in appreciation not criticism, lol. Nutters mean something else, obviously. Though I do think Ahri's stumbled into a moment of hidden profundity up there.
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 9:02 am
(September 4, 2023 at 12:28 am)Ahriman Wrote: I think every person has a religious impulse inside of them. For a lot of people, this impulse maifests as one of many known world religions. For others, such as atheists, this impulse manifests in different ways. I don't think this means every person is spiritual. It is possible to be "spiritual and religious" or "religious but not spiritual" but never "spiritual but not religious"
Without knowing what you mean by religious and spiritual, it's hard to make heads or tails of this.
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RE: Every person is religious
September 4, 2023 at 9:05 am
It's gibberish. Believing you've trapped a ghost in your meat cage isn't a religious claim, it's a superstitious one.
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