Your spirituality?

I am, and amn't.

Music is my spitiruality. I do not believe in a higher power, perse, but I can reach a level of enlightenment through music. And Salvia. When I'm down I hop on here. I express myself. I feel complete. I do not feel a void, an emptiness, as I don't feel a purpose. i just try to stay balanced. This makes me happy. This makes me content.

my spiritual life is complicated.

I just dont know where I fit in.

I believe but I dont know exactly what I believe in.

so I tend to believe in everything.

I believe that we are something more than just a body, call it soul or Whatever.But I don`t believe in any religion, and I don´t believe in an interventionist god, Hence i don´t pray either. Have anyone seen What the bleep do we know? That movie really hit the spot

I'm an atheist with a crisis of an lack of faith. More aptly, perhaps, a crisis of faith in the void, the nothingness. Intelligent Design has some persuasive arguments, and naturalism taken to its logical conclusion is unteneble unless you embrace genocide and war as a means of thinning the herd.

I go to church, even, but I can't say I actually believe there's a God in the traditional way people mean it when they capitalize the 'g.'

I figure an electric train set has to be designed, and the designer is vastly more sophisticated than the train. Doesn't mean the train is more than a diversion; doesn't mean the train is going to work right all the time. Certainly doesn't impart immortality or omnipotence on the trainbuilder, though it might seem so from the perspective of the locomotive if it could think...

So maybe God is dead, the victim of entropy. Maybe we just want there to be an afterlife because purposelessness and nothingness are appalling to us. Maybe appalling to God as well, along the lines of the Bladrunner line 'I want more life, fucker.'

me and God. We're like [i]that![/i]

I'm doing okay. There's no god and no afterlife and no life after death or anything like that, but I'm pretty much happy all the time. I don't really worry or feel guilty about anything. I find the whole concept of the supernatural to be wrought with contradictions and totally convoluted and still somehow lacking in creativity.

[QUOTE=Chixulub;990997]Maybe we just want there to be an afterlife because purposelessness and nothingness are appalling to us.[/QUOTE]

I agree with that. I've never been into organized religion. I really hate the idea of being some type of sheep to a "higher power", and having to worship whatever that "power" may be. Maybe it has something to do with my issues with authority and control, but I don't want to rely on something else for my happiness. I have always relied on myself for everything.

That's not to say I'm not spiritual at all, I just have my own ideas about what it is and what it means. I don't like to put myself in a category or slap on a label.

oh hay im a piratez

This thread smacks of AA a little.
"My God is door knob..."

I'm a buddhist. I have a love/hate relationship with the organized aspect of it. There is always a power struggle and need for recognition within any organized group of people, and that part is always annoying. However, I enjoy hearing people talk about how principles of the religion have freed them or helped them through a hard time. It helps me keep my shit together. I can't ignore that my general emotional state of being is better when I chant twice a day than it is when I get lazy and don't do it at all. I don't mean that in a blowing new age sunshine up your ass kind of way, I mean that little things get on my nerves a little less and big things aren't completely overwhelming.

I took a religion test and it said I should be a taoist.

I am Jewish. We're not Orthodox though - we all converted to Reform Judaism (meaning myself, my husband, and my daughter). I don't really feel like it was a conversion though because we didn't change from Christianity to Judaism. I guess before the conversion process we weren't anything.

It's actually quite complicated when I try to chart the path to our conversion. But we are practicing Jews that keep a kosher home and attend Shabbat services or observe it at home.

Atheist. No not a theist. Atheist as in I agree with most of what Spike just said earlier. Except the creativity part...you know the story of Moses? I can honestly say I hate religion with a passion, but love the Prince of Egypt...go figure.

Buddhism, Taoism, etc however are beautiful philosophies and I don't see them as religions. Picky, picky.

[QUOTE=Synnove;991143]I am Jewish. We're not Orthodox though - we all converted to Reform Judaism (meaning myself, my husband, and my daughter). I don't really feel like it was a conversion though because we didn't change from Christianity to Judaism. I guess before the conversion process we weren't anything.

It's actually quite complicated when I try to chart the path to our conversion. But we are practicing Jews that keep a kosher home and attend Shabbat services or observe it at home.[/QUOTE]

The last smokin' hot chick I asked out was a Reform Jew. I didn't know she had a boyfriend, but I was prepared for her to say she didn't date gentiles...

Atheist here.

I grew up Southren Baptist, around 18 I started to question things and found that science and logic made a lot more sense.

As Abe Lincoln once said " When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad and that is my religion."

I'm very grateful that I wasn't brought up to be Christian. I've never had any religion forced down my throat like so many other people have. I can't stand it when someone tells me that Jesus loves me, or that I should go to church or blah blah blah. Its none of their business. I definitely don't believe in 'God', and there are alot of things in Christianity especially that I really disagree with.

I know what I believe in, and I believe in those things just because it is what makes sense to me through my experiences in life.

I'm an alcoholic.

Morey, I am so glad to see you here.

I've missed you terribly.

I believe in you, baby.

I don't believe in anything totally, but then I kind of believe in everything a little bit, just because nothing makes sense. As a writer, I don't feel it's necessary for me to believe in anything, anyway.

The only problem is that there have been some unbelievable happenings involving my family and great danger. Last year some time my brother was standing in front of his car with the hood popped, checking his oil or changing a fan belt or something, and this dumbass we know that often comes around to talk or borrow money (this guy is genuinely the dumbest person I have ever met. He is THE dumbest person that I have met) was parked right in front of him. He tried to pull out of the driveway and accidentally went forward and crushed my brother's legs between the two bumpers. There were paint chips missing from my brother's bumper from where his legs were pressed against it, but he was fine. He had some minor pain so he went to the doctor, but everything turned out good.

And my cousin almost got hit by a car once in a strange situation in which his only other option was to jump off of the bridge he was walking on. He took a 40-50 foot drop and landed on a rock, then rolled into a stream. His wife saw it all happen, they were broken down on the side of the road. After the paramedics got down there and pulled him up, after he went to the hospital and had his frozen clothes cut off of him, after he was declared injury free other than a broken arm, we drove down to the bridge to take a look, and I'm telling you, this fall was very hard to survive. There were jagged rocks everywhere, and these big pipes coming out of the earth. You could tell where he landed just from looking down there. It was the only place he could land and survive, and it isn't like he looked down there and decided to jump in that spot. He thought it was just a snow bank he was jumping over, he didn't have time to think about it when that car came speeding toward him.

Coincidences look a bit too much like miracles some times, and that can fuck with a nigga's head.

Miracles don't happen to people in St. Thomas, it's a Godless place.

[SIZE=1]please tell me i can say that without him killing me with a crowbar pleeeeeeease[/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Adelheid;991366][SIZE=1]please tell me i can say that without him killing me with a crowbar pleeeeeeease[/SIZE][/QUOTE]

It's pretty much a roll of the dice.

I never really feel the need to explain my spiritual life. It's not just because it ain't no one's bizniz; it's also incredibly boring to explain, and half the people I do explain it to automatically try to pin me down as an atheist/pantheist/Christian/whatever tickles their fancy, when they'd be better off just nodding and not trying to butt in.

I haven't seen anything in religion that i like. In fact, i hate most of it. It's alot of arbitrary morals held together by insecurity and superstition. But that's just my opinion, so don't get pissed off at me, please. I think that we can't really know anything, and that we should just have un until we die. Do what feels good. And if you need structure and a moral code to feel good, that's great. it's just not for me.
On a side note, if i were to identify myself with a religion, it would be buddhism, and i consider it to be more of a philosophy then a religion.

I disapprove of Buddhism in and on principle, but I did once have a crush on a Buddhist chick who played the guitar and ate mustard sandwiches with me.
She was gay.

[QUOTE=Miss Amazing;990934]I consider myself a spirtual person. [/QUOTE]
That's funny, because I consider you a cunt.

[QUOTE=corellion;991464]That's funny, because I consider you a cunt.[/QUOTE]
WoW!

i've been an athiest since i can remember, trying to be buddhist, but i have no compassion.

i hate dishonesty, hipocracy, people who don't help themselves, people who believe their god will destroy anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

though charles manson is a hero of mine.

[QUOTE=the2crowrox;991406]I haven't seen anything in religion that i like. In fact, i hate most of it. It's alot of arbitrary morals held together by insecurity and superstition. But that's just my opinion, so don't get pissed off at me, please. I think that we can't really know anything, and that we should just have un until we die. Do what feels good. And if you need structure and a moral code to feel good, that's great. it's just not for me.
On a side note, if i were to identify myself with a religion, it would be buddhism, and i consider it to be more of a philosophy then a religion.[/QUOTE]

i feel much the same way

[QUOTE=corellion;991464]That's funny, because I consider you a cunt.[/QUOTE]

Corellion strikes again. You can't help but laugh!!!!!

[QUOTE=d.palmetto;991479]i've been an athiest since i can remember, trying to be buddhist, but i have no compassion.

i hate dishonesty, hipocracy, people who don't help themselves, people who believe their god will destroy anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

though charles manson is a hero of mine.[/QUOTE]

Spelling and Grammar are dead. Spelling and Grammar remain dead. And we have killed them. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our keyboards: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?

[QUOTE=corellion;991494]Spelling and Grammar are dead. Spelling and Grammar remain dead. And we have killed them. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our keyboards: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?[/QUOTE]
Calm down there, your mustache is too big.

I get spiritual occasionally. Absolut if it's on my own dime.

You worship false gods! I am the true GOD!

[QUOTE=BlackPac-Man;991505]You worship false gods! I am the true GOD![/QUOTE]
Then I guess we're better off not believing.

[QUOTE=corellion;991464]That's funny, because I consider you a cunt.[/QUOTE]

I just keep coming back and laughing at this one.

I just don't give a shit. Does that count for anything? Apathy? Can that be intwined with religion? I don't care about it. If a god exists, that's cool. If not, whatever. It's just not for me, but I'm no athiest. I'm not AGAINST any of it. Hmm...

I live according to the [URL=http://www.msisshinryu.com/articles/tenets/index.shtml]Seven Tenets of Bushido[/URL].

[QUOTE=Miss Amazing;990934]I consider myself a spirtual person. I need the positive guidance
and inner strength that only a higher, superhuman power can provide.

I am wondering what you all do as far as habits, rituals, etc.

I pray a lot. A LOT. I worship, sometimes with others, sometimes alone.
I write my prayers a lot, it helps me see the answers to my prayers a lot more
when I look back on my writing, and even helps me while writing.

For those of you who aren't spiritual,
do you feel something is missing in your life, a void, a purpose, a meaning?

anyway
thanks for reading
and thanks in advance for some input[/QUOTE]

Hello, I'm new to the cult and thought this was a very interesting discussion.

I pray some of the time and often ask questions and I always seem to find the answers in the books I read or movies I watch and, as you mentioned miss amazing, in my own writing when I write in my journal. It happens frequently now that I'm more aware of it, but it always seems to surprise me. It also helps when I'm just lost and in a rut all alone and I want to give up, the perfect message just pops up in front of me.

I was raised catholic, but I'm finding that I have always lived my life in buddhist beliefs. I'm currently learning more about buddhism...

I believe in smokin' hot chicks, Fiberoptic Jesus' avatar (I know, kind of the same thing), and the right of everyone to be a pig sometimes.

And I believe I'll have another drink. See Morey's answer, if you must...

[QUOTE=d.palmetto;991479]
i hate dishonesty, hipocracy, people who don't help themselves, people who believe their god will destroy anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

[/QUOTE]

I completely feel you there.

[QUOTE=Adelheid;991513]I just keep coming back and laughing at this one.[/QUOTE]
I do too!!! No shit.
[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;991515]I just don't give a shit. Does that count for anything? Apathy? Can that be intwined with religion? I don't care about it. If a god exists, that's cool. If not, whatever. It's just not for me, but I'm no athiest. I'm not AGAINST any of it. Hmm...[/QUOTE]That's called nihilism. You've been catergorized, my man.

Oh wells, good thing I don't care. Hah hah... hah.

Apathy = Answer to life.

[QUOTE=Six On The Dot;990974]"When girls come up to me and say "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply "Well I'm not honest, but you're interesting." - Daniel Tosh[/QUOTE]

I like this line. I think I'm going to steal it.

Im completely baffled about my Spirituality. Im supposed to be a Catholic but Im straying towards atheism. I picked up the Bible a few weeks ago and started reading it and Im actually finding it quiet soothing. I havent found the one religion yet that appeals to me but maybe I will in the future.

[QUOTE=Chixulub;991570]I believe in smokin' hot chicks, Fiberoptic Jesus' avatar (I know, kind of the same thing), and the right of everyone to be a pig sometimes.

And I believe I'll have another drink. See Morey's answer, if you must...[/QUOTE]

I bet Kathleen Hanna could have a pretty successful religious cult, actually. If she wanted to.

[QUOTE=Miss Amazing;990934]
For those of you who aren't spiritual,
do you feel something is missing in your life, a void, a purpose, a meaning?
[/QUOTE]

I always thought it was those who [I]are[/I] religious/spiritual that are the ones missing something hence devoting themselves to a religion and filling that void.
So there.

Ok guys I want ye to PIMP My Spirituality.

Ive tried Catholicism, the Celestine Prophecy and a few others. Any ideas on how to get inner peace?