Spiritual but not religious thread - Crystals n sheit

[The News Crews]

Do you believe in some form of spirituality, or supernatural elements, but don’t subscribe to any organized religion? Then this thread is for you. Share your views on the nature of reality

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Aliens are visiting Earth right now, and our beautiful left-handed gay psionics are training to commune with them.

Read more about it in my blog:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/uap-ufo-military-pentagon-harvard-nasa-academia-event-analysis-ongoing-news.113946/

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I too want the warm fuzzies of believing in a higher power, but without having to actually change my life in any way or meet any difficult moral requirements.

 

[The News Crews]

I too want the warm fuzzies of believing in a higher power, but without having to actually change my life in any way or meet any difficult moral requirements.

But that’s literally what most Christians do

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

But that’s literally what most Christians do

What's your point? SBNR may occasionally be more honest about it, but they're still ten times as annoying.

 

[King Metalia]

I hope out Creator is out there somewhere, but sadly what, where, and who the creator is out of mankind's reach at the moment.

Thank you to OP posting this thread. I feared I was the only one unable to find a faith. When I say that I include atheism, a thing I badly hope is false with ever fiber of my being. Mainly because I think lack of faith doesn't really exist. I believe lack of faith is a faith, isn't it really just faith in nothing when you really think about atheism?

 

[Preacher ✝]

Just try not to be this:

 

[The Blue Morpho]

I was raised religious, became a fedora tipper as a teenager/young adult, then came back around to acknowledging without any reservations the existence of and preeminence of a higher power, God, who not only exists but has a special interest in and connection to humanity. Comprehending this requires no formal religious practice, although I also view certain religions as a net-benefit to human thriving.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Governing a large country
is like frying small fish.
Too much poking spoils the meat.
-Tao Te Ching

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

There is only one true God

 

[Digital Thunder]

One parent's a long-time agnostic, the other's from a lineage of Christian church-runners. Got baptized, but was allowed very early-on to choose whether I wanted to participate in religion any further and said no. Was a fedora-tipper as a teenager but softened out of that because it's stupid. I think I'd call myself a deist at most with my (vague) interest in specific religions gravitating more towards the mythological.

I'm in King Metalia's boat insofar that I believe a true lack of faith isn't possible. We find our ways to it—or at least something directly equivalent to it—naturally and regardless of whether we want to or not, and preexisting specific religions are helpful ways to contextualize that faith.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I think god could have a lot of interpretations. The biblical god is supposed to be in all things, so the universe around you is god, and having faith is acknowledging your limited control and accepting your part in something greater than yourself.

There's supposed to be a heaven but I think if someone were to die they'd probably lose their sense of ego and personhood anyways. What would heaven even mean considering how much of our behavior is based upon the limitations of our physical body? Like you basically wouldn't be you if you lost that, you'd wind up becoming more just an indistinct part of the gestalt whole. And if you won't be you anymore, what's the difference between that and regular death? You'll lose your personhood and go back to the whole in an atheistic sense too.

Basically comfort seems to exist in the acceptance of things. Idk about God, but I do prefer to believe in "god".

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I used to be cynical/dismissive of the spiritual-but-not-religious crowd but now I understand it.
For one, many - my gut feeling is MOST - religious people aren't spiritual in the first place.
I don't know how to explain it, but spirituality, as I understand it, is a way of thinking and relating to the world that involves a conviction about purpose (to the world, behind events, to individual lives), a sense of being part of something larger than the self (both go hand in hand with awe) and a strong internal stirring/conscience. It's a feeling of awe. There are plenty of people who experience that regularly that don't subscribe to a religion and there are plenty of people that unthinkingly go to church every Sunday, believe every word of it, and it has no actual impact on their internal emotional state because they just take it as an intellectual truth. I knew a guy who was a super hardcore Young Earth Creationist that was like that, he didn't have a spiritual bone in his body. He acted and thought like somebody who 100% believed in a six thousand year old Earth and a triune God like it was as much a fact of life as the Sun rising in the morning, and his whole way of thinking was equally bland and pragmatic.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Spiritual is just the new agnostic.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

Im not religious, but yeah i believe in spirits.
80 proof spirits to be precise.

 

[The News Crews]

 

[Cnidarian]

Just try not to be this:

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Yeah, that summarizes it. They're not using spirituality, they're consuming spirituality. Which means that they have made a religion out of a practice that is anathema to spirituality. The stereotype is exactly the opposite of what they say they are.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

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