http://spiritualyouth.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/down-to-earth/ Youth experiences of religion and spirituality Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:37:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://spiritualyouth.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/down-to-earth/#comment-14 gumby Sun, 21 May 2006 06:09:19 +0000 https://spiritualyouth.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/down-to-earth/#comment-14 I think that to be spiritual you just have to believe in something greater than yourself. I personally believe in fate. Very much so. And that all the littel things we do are pretty much irrelevant. So if I happen to walk down this road, I will meet this person, but if I choose this road, I'll meet this person. Either way, I will make a new friend, or either way it won't make a difference. There have been a great number of times for me where I've remembered something last minute that I need so I spend an extra minute getting it. And because of that minute, I miss seeing someone I know. In that case, I think that even If I hadn't gone back for it, something else would have happened to stop me seeing said person. I dunno, maybe I'm just off my rocker. I think that to be spiritual you just have to believe in something greater than yourself. I personally believe in fate. Very much so. And that all the littel things we do are pretty much irrelevant. So if I happen to walk down this road, I will meet this person, but if I choose this road, I’ll meet this person. Either way, I will make a new friend, or either way it won’t make a difference. There have been a great number of times for me where I’ve remembered something last minute that I need so I spend an extra minute getting it. And because of that minute, I miss seeing someone I know. In that case, I think that even If I hadn’t gone back for it, something else would have happened to stop me seeing said person. I dunno, maybe I’m just off my rocker.

]]> http://spiritualyouth.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/down-to-earth/#comment-6 Anonymous Wed, 03 May 2006 06:26:32 +0000 https://spiritualyouth.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/down-to-earth/#comment-6 On meaning of spiritual: being spiritual depends on beliefs since it is upon those assumptions that one predicates acts of faith. Skeptism, for instance, is spiritual for atheism, is its “high” (whether material or immaterial) being built upon belief/assumption that God is an idea that can be questioned and examined, which would be its (cerebral) act of faith. But what if God is not an idea? The need to transcend, regardless, remains transcultural and particular to no historical period. What does it mean to be spiritual then? Perhaps we should unask that question and ask instead: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO NOT BE SPIRITUAL? On meaning of spiritual: being spiritual depends on beliefs since it is upon those assumptions that one predicates acts of faith. Skeptism, for instance, is spiritual for atheism, is its “high” (whether material or immaterial) being built upon belief/assumption that God is an idea that can be questioned and examined, which would be its (cerebral) act of faith. But what if God is not an idea?
The need to transcend, regardless, remains transcultural and particular to no historical period. What does it mean to be spiritual then? Perhaps we should unask that question and ask instead:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO NOT BE SPIRITUAL?

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