I go through this cycle. Suddenly I feel strong spiritual inclination, I try to find a religion or spirituality that will satisfy said inclination, I find no evidence then finally I give up and eventually it will start all over again. When I've tried to find correlation with any particular...
But that is the thing, can't you explain away like 90% of religious experience if not 100 through material means? I don't think you have to turn to the spiritual to explain the spiritual. Which makes me wonder, you've said you don't think the Hellenistic gods are real in the sense that their...
A friend of mine (who should be joining the site soon.) Told me I was looking at all of spirituality from a far too narrow perspective and that if I kept it up I would never go anywhere but atheism.
Essentially what he said was that there is a sort of universal spiritual element to life and...
Alright lets try to say this in a different way. Why bother with the gods at all when you have comic books ect. Why be a pagan or use the gods specifically when any old story works just as well? You can attach meaning to literally anything and people do but what is the point in attaching meaning...
At one point (depending on where you were) not believing in the gods or speaking against the gods was warrant for capital punishment. I'm pretty sure at least some of these societies took these gods very seriously.
Dawkins is just boring to listen to and politically I can't agree with him on anything. At least I can't agree with him on anything i've heard him say. Harris has promoted certain meditation centers and have general bothered me with his voice. They aren't saying anything new or unique either...
I don't know if I can relate to seeing the beauty in a waterfall or anything like that. I have really weird things that move me and that usually doesn't come into the picture. I don't really care for Sam Harris but that isn't the point. Well don't care for isn't the right way to say it more a...