RE: A Basic Definition of Spirituality (of True Faith)
May 30, 2026 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2026 at 10:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Modern people frequently report the sense of the numinous. You're just flat out wrong about this. I see a number of your political convictions being used to explain why you feel the way you do. The irony here is that you're talking to very receptive audience if the subject matter was a religion of nature - but I've gotta be honest, my eyes roll all the way back into my head whenever it's clear to me that the sort of "connection to nature" a person is talking about is an effect of the need to sell pulp paperbacks. This is a marketing technique. Mythologizing and romanticizing early peoples and in the process erasing their own fully equal modernity...all so you can be convinced that you're sick and sold the cure. There is no cure, there never was. Those early peoples were extraction and exploitation specialists just as we continue to be. Their gods and goddesses and spirits and rituals and superstitions were already a layer of cognitive insulation between themselves and the natural world they lived in and depended on.
What if spirituality supplies no answer to any such questions? What if true faith is nothing more or less than the state in which our convictions are disproportionate to the evidence upon which they're founded?
What if spirituality supplies no answer to any such questions? What if true faith is nothing more or less than the state in which our convictions are disproportionate to the evidence upon which they're founded?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
