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Spirituality as an atheist?
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 
Spirituality is religion having an out of body experience.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.  (December 15, 2015 at 5:30 pm)Reflex Wrote: I accept the notion that there are gradations of 'spirituality,' but the mere feeling that Tyson speaks of is spirituality at its most basic (and vacuous) level. The Authority on Spirituality has spoken, folks. Move along, nothing to see here. (December 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: How can one be spiritual as an atheist? Yeah, well, you're a Poe anyway, so nobody gives a green shit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(December 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Spirituality is religion having an out of body experience. So non-existent, then? 
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
December 15, 2015 at 6:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Reflex.)
(December 15, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 5:30 pm)Reflex Wrote: I accept the notion that there are gradations of 'spirituality,' but the mere feeling that Tyson speaks of is spirituality at its most basic (and vacuous) level. That does pretty much sum it up. Tyson's 'spirituality' is all "goo" and no "prickles," it has no content. It's the very definition of vacuous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g-H6PA-E...detailpage Human beings entertain concepts because that's what they do: they conceive. Feeling without content is like enjoying the end of a musical composition as if that were the point of the composition. (December 15, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Stimbo Wrote:Well, if we apply a spiritual definition of "existent," then there's no such thing as non-existent.(December 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Spirituality is religion having an out of body experience. Even after I die, as long as somebody on Earth remembers my name, I will exist. And there will always be somebody singing, Help me, Rhonda. so I've got it made in the shade. (Forgive me. I didn't realize that was going to end in a pun.)
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind. (December 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: How can one be spiritual as an atheist? By being vacuous. That is, by being touchy-feely without caring to make any sense of it. Full Definition of VACUOUS 1: emptied of or lacking content 2: marked by lack of ideas or intelligence : stupid, <a vacuous mind> <a vacuous movie> 3: devoid of serious occupation : — vac·u·ous·ly adverb RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
December 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 15, 2015 at 6:56 pm)Reflex Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The Authority on Spirituality has spoken, folks. Move along, nothing to see here. I suppose you've not discovered the concept of the ineffable ... which rather calls into question the substance of your judgement, if true. And if you indeed have come to understand the con el of the ineffable, your seeming inability to integrate it with your concept of spirituality makes me wonder how substantive your thinking is. I'm on my phone and can't watch your video, but I should think that someone making such authoritative pronouncements on the spirituality of others ought to be capable of making his point in his own words. In any event, I disagree with your conception of the subject, and find word salad unconvincing. |
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