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what do you all see in spiritualism?
#81
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
my soul is my soul,mate..I am not an alien..are you?what is your soul?
my soul consists of everything i feel in myself..everybody and everything got a soul..even trees,plants..
are you a criticaster?for your information==I can take some shit... Smile Wink
O.K..got it..you meant what you put in bold..can you answer that for yourself?
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#82
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
That...doesn't make any sense. "Everything I feel in myself" is not a helpful definition.

Are you trying to say that your soul is your consciousness? Because that raises the question about plants having souls. Do rocks have souls?
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#83
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
Wait, everything?  Indigestion?  A kidney stone?
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#84
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
(December 13, 2016 at 11:53 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: That...doesn't make any sense.  "Everything I feel in myself" is not a helpful definition.

Especially if you're in prison and your cellmate just remarked on how pretty your lips are.
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#85
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
nice posting,Rhytm..I love it..it shows where internet can lead to...uhuh
do you think i make a fool of myself here?mea culpa...mea culpa...mea maxima culpa... Smile
probably i used the wrong vocabulary Big Grin
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#86
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
Just..simply, what is a soul?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#87
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
This is a problem we run into with terms like "spirituality." It's a term that is defined ambiguously even in dictionaries. Some definitions link it to religion and religious belief, but there are many people who define it in the complete absence of gods or religions. Words like "soul" are similarly tricky to nail down if you compare the religious use of the term to the colloquial use. We're as likely to use the word to mean "person" as we are to mean "essence" or "ghost" or something along those lines.

For me, spiritualism deals with ghosts and the belief that the human mind uses a physical body as a temporary vessel but is able to survive beyond it. Spirituality is linked to our emotions and our emotional experience of the world. The latter does not require a belief in the supernatural or in other planes of existence.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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#88
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
(December 13, 2016 at 11:33 am)tigerlove Wrote: i see what you mean,Rob...as i told before i am not into yoga,meditation..i got my doubts about karma..
to me..when i die..it's over..whether my soul goes to heaven or anywhere else..I would not have a clue
for me spirituality means discovering human values..like positivity..trying to eliminate negativity in myself,others,the whole world..
I believe conversation,communication is important in life..either on a forum..but even more face to face
spirituality is just such a vast subject that in a lot of your answers..i neither see what you all mean about being spiritual..
i was going to put links..but since i am a newbie it's into the 30/30 rule violation..sorry i did not notice that in one of my postings...

Right, well by the sounds of it I would agree with your goals. I just don't understand why it needs a special name that implies something mystical.
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#89
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
oh Faith..listen to what this Christian believer has to say about a soul?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGlGu54EwUY

our soul is who we are as personality...but when we die the soul turns into a spiritual body..or does it not?

@Tonus.great reply..you hit the nail as it should be said..as a matter of fact...
my headposting is confusing since i meant more spirituality instead of spiritualism..and they are 2 different things...as Tonus clearly explained here..
great thread..not because i started it..but more about the answers i do read and value here..thanks,peeps Wink Smile
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#90
RE: what do you all see in spiritualism?
(December 13, 2016 at 1:13 pm)tigerlove Wrote: oh Faith..listen to what this Christian believer has to say about a soul?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGlGu54EwUY

our soul is who we are as personality...but when we die the soul turns into a spiritual body..or does it not?

@Tonus.great reply..you hit the nail as it should be said..as a matter of fact...
my headposting is confusing since i meant more spirituality instead of spiritualism..and they are 2 different things...as Tonus clearly explained here..
great thread..not because i started it..but more about the answers i do read and value here..thanks,peeps Wink Smile

I don't care what some random Christian (or some random anyone else, for that matter) says about the soul, since you're the one using the term.  I want to know how you define it.

Quote:but when we die the soul turns into a spiritual body..or does it not?

Is that a question?  Don't ask me - again it's you that's using this term in the first place, you should be able to define it if you're going to use it.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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