"I'm spiritual, not religious"

Religion, as a communicable modality, occupies a necessary position within any cultural sensorium, sine qua non it serves the major purpose of giving expression to an ineffable sorrow, a lacrimosa out 'de profundis' of the heart. A kind of sorrow, mourning, the comparable to which finds us otherwise only very few times in our lives, and only once if we are lucky; it is of an intolerable sense of loss that I am referring to. Palpable and visceral, ancient and primal, but abstract, and yet abstract notions on the private level are what compose the very apparent actuality of our reality, and appertain to the language we use to comprehend it's particulars great and small. It is my belief that this sense of loss is among the original parts in determining what it means to be a human being and that the many thousands of years old cave paintings we may still see today reveal this to be self evident; that these paintings were religious in nature is basically beyond dispute.

What we do to fill that void in our hearts is our own business and receptivity to it's poignant pangs of alarm is generally reduced as we busy ourselves with trivialities; but melancholy is an intrinsic component to religion and no mystical communion is without ennui as precedent.

 

I often feel religious but in essence I'm merely spiritual.

 

religion is nothing more than a dogma so a group of people can have a like mind and clearly misses the point of originality. I am a spiritual person, not a religious one..

be good to others and they will be good to you.

 

I'm spiritual in the sense that I try to do things that bring peace to my own spirit and also connects me with the "spirit" of the world and universe.

I don't know if I neccessarily believe in a "soul" per se, but I think the energy that flows through all things in existence is a pretty amazing thing and I like to meditate on that. I like to give thanks for my own existence. I like to contemplate the vastness of the universe, and I like to humble myself within the grand scale of everything.

So in that sense I am spiritual, but I wouldn't touch a religious dogma with a 10 foot pole.

 

People are weak creatures and feel like they must believes in something. Be it spirituality or religion, it is still an inherent weakness that the true intellectual must dispose of.

 

By your own argument intellectuals are no better. The intelligence of a person is still only a belief. There is no true evidence that any one person is more intellectual than any other. The very idea of intellect is measured by how much worth each person puts into it.

 

I'm funny












and studious

 

For me:-
Religion = What to Believe and a Man created doctrine
Faith = How to Believe and to self felt desire
Religion is a set of Thou Shalt/Shalt not's
Faith is an allowance of Expressive Freedom
Religion is a Solid Calculation
Faith is Flexible and Spiritual
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Buddha taught that we should trust only what we can verify, not having blind faith in the teachings of other people. That's my approach.

Spiritual means understanding that some things are more than the sum of their parts. A spectacular sunset over a huge mountain is more than light rays and rocks.

 

i find it funny that you get all spiritual in almost all the threads you post in then the one about spirituality you post almost nothing.

 

atheists or "true intellectuals" just find a way to fill the void some other way.

All humans inherently look for meaning in life. Some just do it differently than others.

 

spirituality is different philosophies or worldviews that tend to be based around idealism, and is as vague a term as i just made it sound. Religion tends to be the same but has a more formal and often organized, ritualistic approach.

 

Told you. People find me lots of ways. In this instance, funny in a peculiar sense.







i remain studious