Buddhist, practcing. Although personally I dont see it as a religeon, more a set of tools for daily life that I find works
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Atheist.
What reason is there to believe in any Gods?
What reason is there to believe in any form of spirituality (in any meaningful sense)?
What reason is there to believe in any Gods?
What reason is there to believe in any form of spirituality (in any meaningful sense)?
- Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live...
oh and, I am http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
I personally don't know what the hell to think about religion/spirituality.
I can easily talk myself into, or out of just about any of the various schools of thought on God/Religion/Spirituality.
I do however find it all interesting & enjoy talking about it.
I can easily talk myself into, or out of just about any of the various schools of thought on God/Religion/Spirituality.
I do however find it all interesting & enjoy talking about it.
Understood.
My issue with 'spirituality' is that there are 2 sides to it.
Person A: Believes in supernatural stuff. Duality. A life force that runs through everything. All that kind of stuff.
This would be spirituality in a 'meaningful sense'.
There's no evidence to support these claims.
Person B: Believes spirituality to mean being in touch with oneself. Meditating and all that stuff to have a 'spiritual' experience. Experiences which can be achieved using acid, DMT, 2Cx, MDMA, being alone in a cave up a mountain on your own for 6 months, having a beautiful experience with nature, etc...
This is just science. Chemical reactions in your brain. The word spirituality here has no real 'meaning'. All it does is mislead people about what you believe because the word has supernatural connotations.
If you're talking as Person B, the word spirituality has no place in a discussion about religion, because it doesn't deal with supernatural claims, beliefs or gods. It should be left out of the conversation, like science, because they don't deal with belief, but what we know to be true.
Like pantheists, of which I know many, that claim mother nature or life or energy is God. This clouds the debate, because essentially all you're doing is replacing a word used to describe something we know to be true with a word that is more commonly used to describe something supernatural.
A question for the people who claim to be Buddhist:
Which of the three 'sects' of Buddhism do you fall into?
1.) Buddhist who believes in a god (or many gods) and possibly other supernatural stuff.
2.) Atheist Buddhist who also believes in supernatural things - Duality, universal life force, that kind of thing. But no god.
3.) Atheist Buddhist who holds no supernatural beliefs.
Which of the three 'sects' of Buddhism do you fall into?
1.) Buddhist who believes in a god (or many gods) and possibly other supernatural stuff.
2.) Atheist Buddhist who also believes in supernatural things - Duality, universal life force, that kind of thing. But no god.
3.) Atheist Buddhist who holds no supernatural beliefs.
Atheist. I don't "believe" in anything, I accept facts and assume that something might very well be true on the basis of its likeliness. Thus I don't have any reason to follow any religion or spiritual concept.
The less I have of them the more open minded I become.
(How strongly you believe something is equally proportional to how much resistance you offer to other ideas within that context.)
(How strongly you believe something is equally proportional to how much resistance you offer to other ideas within that context.)
Like Jersey Shore and Michael Bay movies are responsible for BILLIONS of lives taken and Quadrillions more in suffering over the last 10,000+ years??
3 for me. Like everyone I've ever met in Thailand, Buddhism is more a toolset than a religion, but they'll gladly call it a religion to take the calendar holidays off for that religion when asked. (Which is of course, another useful tool it offers.)
Used to have a hardcore atheist/science perspective and mocked anything that even closely resembles religion.. Still do for the most part, but I've realized that religion doesn't have to be so constraining.. In fact, it can be used to expand your understanding of yourself and the world around you. There's no one right religion, and even within a specific religion it comes down to personal interpretation more times than not.
Really, my only "belief" is this:
To ignore your spirituality, is to ignore a great source of "energy", or whatever you choose to call it.. Religion can be a great tool to channel, or cultivate that. How someone chooses to pursue this shouldn't matter to anyone but themselves, and it's absurd that people actually fight and die by the millions because of slight variations of the same idea. And that is where the negative side of religions is seen... When people misinterpret it and use them to persuade.
Really, my only "belief" is this:
To ignore your spirituality, is to ignore a great source of "energy", or whatever you choose to call it.. Religion can be a great tool to channel, or cultivate that. How someone chooses to pursue this shouldn't matter to anyone but themselves, and it's absurd that people actually fight and die by the millions because of slight variations of the same idea. And that is where the negative side of religions is seen... When people misinterpret it and use them to persuade.