(November 30, 2009 at 5:34 pm)theVOID Wrote: What the fuck is supposed to be spiritual about verified truth?Is somebody fucked? Where? Voluntarily?
My suggestion about verification/falsification was meant as a method to deal with the claim of enlightenment in a rational way. Do you think this is fair or is it possible that enlightenment may exists and still be unverifiable/unfalsifiable?
(November 30, 2009 at 5:34 pm)theVOID Wrote: Spiritual implies the spirit or soul, a completely unfounded concept.IMO, the word 'spiritual' is hijacked by religion and scrambled into a meaning with supernatural context. We, as proud atheists, should not allow this. ATHEISTS OF ALL NATIONS UNITE! Just joking there. The spiritual for me refers to cohesiveness and reverence for the natural world, but these words are not accurate enough to me. There is a french writer who has some interesting points on this (André Comte-Sponville).
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
