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Spirituality as an atheist?
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RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
(December 15, 2015 at 6:56 pm)Reflex Wrote:
(December 15, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The Authority on Spirituality has spoken, folks. Move along, nothing to see here.

That does pretty much sum it up. Tyson's 'spirituality' is all "goo" and no "prickles," it has no content. It's the very definition of vacuous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g-H6PA-E...detailpage


Human beings entertain concepts because that's what they do: they conceive. Feeling without content is like enjoying the end of a musical composition as if that were the point of the composition.

I suppose you've not discovered the concept of the ineffable ... which rather calls into question the substance of your judgement, if true. And if you indeed have come to understand the con el of the ineffable, your seeming inability to integrate it with your concept of spirituality makes me wonder how substantive your thinking is.

I'm on my phone and can't watch your video, but I should think that someone making such authoritative pronouncements on the spirituality of others ought to be capable of making his point in his own words.

In any event, I disagree with your conception of the subject, and find word salad unconvincing.

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Messages In This Thread
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 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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