(July 21, 2014 at 3:07 pm)Blackout Wrote:(July 21, 2014 at 3:06 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: My theist girlfriend has tried to tell me that she feels that because I'm a good person that she feels that she likes my spirituality. But I've told her pretty flatly that spirituality either means believing in the "supernatural" (as in, the actual definition of what the words mean) or it is a useless term (as it seems to be since it is vaguely applied in New Age terms to almost everything). I just try to follow the Golden Rule. That's it. No more, unnecessarily complicated, "divinely originated" rules required.
Not useless, spirituality can be used to describe knowing your own self and being at peace, with a metaphorical meaning. just like 'you have no soul' can be used metaphorically and not to claim a soul really exists.
What's your girlfriend's religion?
Baha'i Faith. Ever heard of it?
And I meant useless as an actual descriptor of one's morality- you can definitely use it as a metaphor in the same way "spirit" can be used, but other than that I don't see its effectiveness.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
