(December 16, 2016 at 4:12 am)robvalue Wrote:(December 15, 2016 at 4:55 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think both those activities COULD be spiritual ones, but I also think I have to give a caveat to my former definition. I'd say there has to be either a feeling of elevation beyond one's normal range or capacity, or at least an attempt to elevate oneself.
So for a game or movie to be a spiritual experience, I'd say (and this is just me moving goalposts slightly) that you'd have to feel those things connected you with a part of yourself you couldn't otherwise connect with, and that you felt dramatically elevated because of that.
But to be fair, I've been in "the zone" in sports a couple times and in music several times, and in the case of music I'd definitely say that was a spiritual experience to me. So was my viewing of certain movies.
Sure, well when I'm a ninja or a maniac running around killing people, I get the primal rush of violence, control and fear (if the bad guys are hard) that I never get in normal life since I'm really just a pussy.
I NEVER get that feeling... because I always get pummeled by the "I can win" bots.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
