RE: The Spiritual Basis of The Republican Ideology
September 10, 2023 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2023 at 7:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 10, 2023 at 2:59 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote:
GrandNudger: Yes, I can say this is how I see it. But I’ve already agreed before that there is no empirical evidence for any of that.
You don't need any empirical evidence for spiritual things as described, because there wouldn't be any evidence for them - as things we wish to see and hope to make real but do not yet (or on their own) exist. There's no evidence of my new boat, for example - because I don't have it.
.....yet.
I strongly suspect that the use of the term in this way doesn't facilitate good communication. I doubt that anyone you're talking to here, for example, would think "stuff people want" is the set of things that have to be spiritual. More amusingly, it renders "spirituality" to something indistinguishable from materialistic consumerism.
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