Using the word Spiritual

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I have heard the word spiritual used to describe an emotional high. Sam Harris even wrote a book called Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.

There goes any guilt/remorse I may have had for never reading any of Sam's work.

I'm going to review that book without reading it, based on the title. I don't like it! Bad book. What a load of nonsense.

I'm more familiar with "the moral landscape" through various videos I've seen about it. I wish I had the energy to do a full deconstruction of the book because I think it's nonsense. I wonder if that would be a huge project, or a manageable one. I wonder if it would be worthwhile.

On the whole, I find Sam says a lot of good things. He's certainly brilliant. But he has his pet weird ideas that don't work (in my useless opinion), like most people. One of my own personal quests is to have no pet weird ideas. I certainly experiment with all kinds of ideas, but I try to hold no dogma at all. I'd also like to try and write a book about my own philosophies... but Jesus Christ. It would mostly end up as page after page of, "duh, really?" and "would you get to the point already" and "this is fucking boring as shit". I've bored myself writing this paragraph. I spend a lot of time alone talking to myself.