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Are you open to religious experiences?
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RE: Are you open to religious experiences?
(December 17, 2014 at 11:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: In my opinion, you are confusing religious institution with religious experience. Many people have had what they consider transcendent experiences when listening to more modern music-- Wagner, for example. It's semantics whether you'd call this "religious" if it's not explicitly Christian-themed-- but it produces similar changes to brain chemistry and causes similar experience.

Ah, that's what I'd can a transcendental experience. I can get it listening to Christian music. But the feeling is not religious. If you use spiritual very broadly, that would cover it, like looking at the stars or listening to rain on a tent.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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Are you open to religious experiences? - by Strider - December 17, 2014 at 6:22 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Alex K - December 17, 2014 at 6:27 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by abaris - December 17, 2014 at 6:27 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Spooky - December 17, 2014 at 7:38 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by The Valkyrie - December 17, 2014 at 6:28 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Strider - December 17, 2014 at 6:33 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by dyresand - December 17, 2014 at 6:44 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by abaris - December 17, 2014 at 6:49 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by dyresand - December 17, 2014 at 8:36 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Lucanus - December 17, 2014 at 6:50 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by abaris - December 17, 2014 at 7:01 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Alex K - December 17, 2014 at 7:10 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by ManMachine - December 17, 2014 at 6:53 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by KevinM1 - December 17, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Jenny A - December 17, 2014 at 10:13 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by bennyboy - December 17, 2014 at 11:28 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Jenny A - December 17, 2014 at 11:43 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Alex K - December 17, 2014 at 7:37 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Silver - December 17, 2014 at 7:55 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Minimalist - December 17, 2014 at 8:41 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by bennyboy - December 17, 2014 at 8:43 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by vorlon13 - December 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by bennyboy - December 17, 2014 at 11:52 pm
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Jenny A - December 18, 2014 at 12:26 am
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by bennyboy - December 18, 2014 at 12:32 am
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Elskidor - December 18, 2014 at 12:09 am
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Alex K - December 18, 2014 at 2:10 am
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by robvalue - December 18, 2014 at 4:11 am
RE: Are you open to religious experiences? - by Alex K - December 18, 2014 at 5:19 am

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