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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 5:40 am
I already have what would be termed a spiritual side to my nature. I can be in awe at the beauty of a sunset, a galaxy, a smile on an infant's face. I can be moved to tears by a certain musical phrase, a painting, a piece of poetry. I just don't feel the need to dress it up in dogma and ritual, nor attach greater importance to it than any other part of my nature. It can colour the way I see things, certainly, but it's on a tight rein and it knows that.
However, if I had to pick some dogmatic outlet to represent my spirituality - I don't know; I've always had a connection with Bacchus, god of wine, I suppose (and his cousin Bilious, the Oh God of hangovers). So maybe colour me a Bacchanalian.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 5:50 am
Oh shit I completely forgot Seth, the evil Egyptian god. If he could grant me powers, I would worship him for eternity as The One True Lord.
I think Sarris argued the possibility of being spiritual while atheist and you don't necessarily need to believe in anything supernatural
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 7:00 am
(April 22, 2015 at 8:46 pm)Polaris Wrote: For the atheists, if you could choose a spiritual way of life (you can still be atheist depending on your answer), what would it be?
I am spiritual already, I simply don't have any supernatural components to my spirituality. As a humanist, I believe in the 'human spirit', that allegory for the potential of mass human effort to better ourselves and our environment, to withstand & overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles/challenges. I also believe in individual manifestations of the human spirit, the capability that each of us (all/most of us?) has to do the same. I understand that this 'human spirit' has developed, evolutionarily, as a result of people making use of collaborative techniques, that is to say that groups who collaborated best, reproduced most successfully.
Sum ergo sum
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 9:03 am
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 9:05 am
(April 22, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (April 22, 2015 at 11:38 pm)Passive Atheist Wrote: My own feeling is for polytheism, the sort the Greeks had. It'd be a lot more fun with all those Gods who come down to earth and assume human form. I also feel deeply that all those lesser gods and quasi-gods are more fun than the Christian/Judaic/Islamic gods.
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Worshipping Dionysus could be a lot of fun.
My personal favorite greek god.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 10:05 am
(April 22, 2015 at 8:46 pm)Polaris Wrote: For the atheists, if you could choose a spiritual way of life (you can still be atheist depending on your answer), what would it be?
For the theists, if you no longer believed or never did believe in your faith, what spiritual path would you follow or would you instead being non-religious?
For myself, I would follow the old Celtic faith. Not sure I would actually believe it, but I would probably follow it to be closer with my natural surroundings and perhaps encounter nature of a mystical level. Not a big fan of how New Age has bastardized the old ways to fit into a commercialized way of life. In a way, I kind of do some of that already as I have Native American religious icons in my room.
you used the word bastardized.. pretty sure that's un-Christian.
I'd be a deist or pantheist... I'd be super cool. I'd be a pussy.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 10:34 am
The "God of the Philosophers" is, to my mind, firmly grounded in reason. Absent the advent of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and subsequent revelations, I would hold to 'the One' or 'the Good' of Plotinus.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 10:36 am
Probably a Baha'i. There "World Unity" and ending a lot of ill's in the world is attractive.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 11:06 am
Maybe I'd be Orthodox Ultra Spiritual, just to annoy people.
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RE: If you weren't an Atheist/Theist
April 23, 2015 at 11:09 am
Humanist. 
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