REPTILIAN RULERS EXPOSED

[Edwardo Piet]

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I have yet to see anyone describe any practical or observable aspect of "spiritual health" that doesn't entirely steal from the definitions of mental and emotional well-being - In fact i would go as far as to say that the word "Spirituality" is an entirely unnecessary re-branding of already existing concepts and serves no purpose other than to muddle up the understanding of what it means to be 'at peace'.

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Ramen to that!!!

EvF

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@ Prabbit (quote in hide tags)

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Well, I really was responding to your phrasing in the form (A) "I believe I have no evidence for p" instead of (B) "I have no evidence for p". The accompaning emoticon means I was teasing you a little with a reference to our earlier discussion.

If you are trying to emphasize your human infallibilty with A, it does not stop there.
For if you do not know anything absolute, than you don't even know absolutely if you are believing you have no evidence. A becomes "I believe that I believe I have no evidence for p" and everybody can see there's infinite regress from there on.

So I think we're in agremeant on the appeal to ignorance, though my preferred phrasing of it reads as follows:

An appeal to ignorance is made when is said (1A) "There is no evidence for p, therefore, not-p" or (2A) "There is no evidence against p, therefore, p".

I think the word "only" in your version has some possible ambiguity to it.[/quote[

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I agree with how you are defining appeal to ignorance. And by your own definition I did not fall into it Do you agree?

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[quote=Prabbit]
I'm interested in spiritual enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon that, like religion, claims absolute truth. However I I'm not a seeker of spiritual enlightenment myself, except when you use it to mean something as broad like 'understanding of the world'. Also I have argued that the word 'spiritual' (not ''spiritual enlightenment') has been since long hi-jacked by religion and mystycism and that it should be reclaimed by reason. Spiritual to me is about contemplative emotion and awareness levels arising in the brain through natural causes. And we should reclaim the term just because it's been abused by religion and mystycism as an argument for the supernatural, as an argument that naturalism does not address certain aspects of existence.

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I basically just agree with you here.


And Prabbit, as for your point on the matter of 'Spiritual Enlightenment', I personally consider it to mean exactly the same thing as 'Enlightenment' since spiritual is so fucking vague it means absolutely fuck-all to me really, (as I said, that's whyI can't stand that word) - so it basically just means 'Enlightenment'!! Hehe.

EvF