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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2016 at 9:08 am by Homeless Nutter.)
What do I see in spirituality? Platitudes and magical thinking. It's a way for people to indulge in fantastic, emotionally-pleasing, but intellectually vacuous misinterpretations of reality, without the social constraints of a traditional religion. It's a way to appear "deep" and thoughtful in conversation, without having to actually know anything.
Basically - it's a way to get into the knickers of dumb hippie chicks...
Sorry, but you asked.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:08 am
(December 12, 2016 at 8:39 am)tigerlove Wrote: I am a believer in spirituality..it brings us closer to who we are...and wanna be... 
the mind...is often more important then the body...everything starts from between our 2 ears==the brain...
any comments,please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoL2WMtMb_0
In case you have not heard .... The mind (brain) is a part of the body. They are inseparable.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:10 am
"Spiritualism" originated in a con game back in the 1800s, IIRC. Not as entertaining as a tourist voodoo ceremony.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:12 am
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It's arbitrarily assigning extra meaning to emotions and experiences. It's trying to leap-frog science by abandoning any kind of rigor and just making things up. Classic woo.
We can study ourselves perfectly well without having to imbue things with magic. We can have amazing experiences, we can meditate and send our mind to all sorts of weird places. But there's no need to make out that it's more than it is.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:17 am
It goes deeper, you say? Even more made up stuff?
If you can demonstrate spirituality is anything other than metaphors, I'm all ears.
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RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
December 12, 2016 at 9:17 am
I only experienced it while tripping. That's about how meaningful it is to me.
You might want to hook up with Little Rik.
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