(July 4, 2021 at 2:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(July 4, 2021 at 11:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a broad sense ‘higher power’ simply means a power greater than yourself. It could be virtually anything - God, community, science, existentialism, and so on. There’s really nothing woo about it, since the only people who don’t believe in a power greater than and (usually) external to themselves are narcissistic sociopaths.
Boru
"higher power" generally refers to some nefarious, undefined bit of fluff. It's woo.
Believing in community or science isn't believing in a "higher power".
Higher powers are almost never thought of as nefarious. Did you mean ‘nebulous’?
Boru