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Spirituality as an atheist?
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RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
(December 15, 2015 at 3:27 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: The word 'spiritual' is so incoherent, that it defines nothing.

There are as many definitions, as there are people using the word.

When I take my 15" mirror telescope away from the city lights, and view some distant sky object, I get the feelings of awe and wonder. Does that qualify as 'spiritual'?
I believe it does. I have been trying to describe this abstract idea. I believe that feeling significance in life and feeling your own presence is what one might call spiritual. It's annoying that this seems to be something religion call's it's own. People have so called "religious experiences" when they feel a hightened sense of awareness and significance, like when they do drugs. I have never been religious and i don't know how religiosity exists, it seems like someone would have to lack a lot of intelligence to believe in religious concepts. Why couldn't their be a non supernatural version of this? It sounds like spirituality has everything to do with consciousness, but was taken over by idiots to mean something else.
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Spirituality as an atheist? - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 14, 2015 at 11:27 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 12:40 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 1:24 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 15, 2015 at 3:35 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Joods - December 15, 2015 at 1:29 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 1:47 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by CapnAwesome - December 15, 2015 at 3:29 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Amine - December 15, 2015 at 3:42 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 4:01 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by SofaKingHigh - December 15, 2015 at 6:18 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Little Rik - December 15, 2015 at 7:13 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Little Rik - December 16, 2015 at 5:35 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 3:08 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 5:02 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Rhondazvous - December 15, 2015 at 5:40 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by loganonekenobi - December 15, 2015 at 2:19 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Simon Moon - December 15, 2015 at 3:27 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 3:32 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 3:40 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by TheRealJoeFish - December 15, 2015 at 3:44 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 15, 2015 at 3:47 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 4:15 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 5:30 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 15, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 6:56 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 10:18 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 15, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 12:55 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 16, 2015 at 3:29 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 1:57 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 16, 2015 at 2:32 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 3:18 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 18, 2015 at 4:22 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by God of Mr. Hanky - December 16, 2015 at 2:36 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Whateverist - December 15, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 5:35 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by TrueChristian - December 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 6:08 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 15, 2015 at 7:14 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 5:54 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Rhondazvous - December 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 6:09 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Rhondazvous - December 15, 2015 at 7:04 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 15, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Whateverist - December 15, 2015 at 10:24 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by drfuzzy - December 16, 2015 at 2:59 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Iroscato - December 16, 2015 at 8:15 am
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 4:06 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 4:10 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 4:45 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 5:02 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 5:19 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 5:23 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 5:36 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 5:43 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Reflex - December 16, 2015 at 7:18 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by God of Mr. Hanky - December 16, 2015 at 8:33 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Cyberman - December 16, 2015 at 7:21 pm
RE: Spirituality as an atheist? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 18, 2015 at 4:32 am

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