(May 21, 2025 at 8:56 pm)Rift Zone Wrote: I used to think it was little more than a novel trait of humanity that demonstrated some of the richness and depth of our species...now I'm not so sure.
I'm hoping you could help me express it better So, what is spirituality? just a religious thing? ^some novel trait of humanity that has us "connect with something greater than ourselves"? Something more? Who does it apply to? I mean, what's going on there?
Back to the original question, I think people's answers will depend to a fair extent on how old they are.
I will be 70 years old this year, and if anything I look back on my life and think I approached far too much of it with the wrong assumptions. I took it too seriously for one thing. I didn't see life as gratuitous, like a roller coaster ride.
I am pleased that my life had meaning to a few people, who in turn were meaningful to me. But overall I shouldn't have tried so hard to find "meaning and purpose." Those are the kinds of words wealthy and powerful people use to enlist others in their own self-important efforts.
I wasn't important.
