"Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality;[1] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.”[2] Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.[3] Spirituality is often experienced as a source of inspiration or orientation in life.[4] It can encompass belief in immaterial realities or experiences of the immanent or transcendent nature of the world."
I mean read that. It is nonsense. It is meaningless. Unmeasurable. It is ill defined and apparantly means several different things. It is touchy feely, fuzzy, feel good new age bollocks. That is what it is.
Connectedness with a larger reality? You what? Might as well believe in the sky daddy. Meditation? Prayer? To whom??? The nothingness of nothing? What would you think about when meditating? There must be some sense of belief of a purpose or plan or deity? Discover the essence of ones being? What?
If we are just talking about how we interact/empathise with one another and possibly have a bigger purpose as a species, that is not "spirituality", that is just "what it is" . Spirituality is an unmeasurable, unprovable concept. As being an atheist means I require evidence, then I cannot be spiritual because it is only a fuzzy, ill defined concept to me, with certainly no evidence to support its reality.
There is just no way I could say "Well yeah I'm an atheist, but I'm also spiritual". It would be preposterous. Atheism and spirituality contradict because one is a non belief based on lack of evidence, the other is a belief in something with no evidence.
Spirituality = file under deism.
I mean read that. It is nonsense. It is meaningless. Unmeasurable. It is ill defined and apparantly means several different things. It is touchy feely, fuzzy, feel good new age bollocks. That is what it is.
Connectedness with a larger reality? You what? Might as well believe in the sky daddy. Meditation? Prayer? To whom??? The nothingness of nothing? What would you think about when meditating? There must be some sense of belief of a purpose or plan or deity? Discover the essence of ones being? What?
If we are just talking about how we interact/empathise with one another and possibly have a bigger purpose as a species, that is not "spirituality", that is just "what it is" . Spirituality is an unmeasurable, unprovable concept. As being an atheist means I require evidence, then I cannot be spiritual because it is only a fuzzy, ill defined concept to me, with certainly no evidence to support its reality.
There is just no way I could say "Well yeah I'm an atheist, but I'm also spiritual". It would be preposterous. Atheism and spirituality contradict because one is a non belief based on lack of evidence, the other is a belief in something with no evidence.
Spirituality = file under deism.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
