(December 22, 2015 at 8:11 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(December 22, 2015 at 6:37 am)Little Rik Wrote: Well, well, i didn't know that you are an expert in religions.
Can you please help Little Rik to understand what a religions is
and if your brain allow what is spirituality.
Have a lovely day beanie.
It's really pretty straight-forward, Rik. If you think there's a God and you do pretty much anything to try connect with it, make friends with it, appease it, or be "more like" it, then you follow a religion. If you think magic exists and you try to learn about and use it, then you follow a religion. If you sincerely try to talk to ghosts, especially using spells or rituals, then you follow a religion.
I guess if you want to get technical, religion is the use of symbols, rituals, prayers, or any combination of those things to worship, pay homage to, and/or gain the favor of one or more gods, spirits, and/or magical forces.
You, for instance, believe that doing yoga regularly will help connect your mind to an ultimate, Universe-permeating consciousness, do you not? That's religion.
I know you think it's just "pure spirituality" and not religion, but it is a consistent fact that people who have religion recognize other people's faiths as religions while steadfastly referring to their own religions as something else. Examples:
Christians are commonly heard to say that "Christianity isn't a religion, it's a lifestyle."
Bill O'Reilly insisted on national television that Christianity is a philosophy, not a religion.
Buddhism is commonly referred to as a philosophy and not a religion (while this may be true for some very isolated branches, many forms of Buddhism recognize gods, spirits, and supernatural realms).
Some people think Taoism is a philosophy and not a religion even though it involves contacting ancestor ghosts with magic spells.
Doing yoga for exercise and flexibility is not religion. Doing yoga in attempts to connect with invisible universe-brains is religion.
Stop acting like your religion isn't a religion.
First of all thanks for taking some time to answer my question.
Unfortunately you fail.
Spirituality is all about to clean your consciousness so you can get at the source of everything (God).
This approach is purely internal and involve a lot of hard work both physical-mental.
There is no prayers, no eulogy of any kind.
Religions come later.
Always after spirituality when the system become corrupted.
From internal become external so prayers and eulogies are the norm.
Suppose your son come to you and say.........oh, father please give me the daily bread.
What would you think?
Wouldn't you think your son is gone mad?
That what religions are all about.
They gone mad.
They corrupted the proper system to get to God.
But there is a lot more beanie.
