Can you better explain what you mean? You don't know what introspection is? Ask Red for a link to an online dictionary. When you argue against spirituality, without ever trying to take it seriously, your argument is hollow. Heh, funny joke.
i mean i am self aware already. i dont have to summon my magical soul or conjure up inner peace whatever. spirituality? what spirit? you are using words that have no actual meaning. if we define meditation and introspection as being quiet for a second and thinking about stuff, ok everyone on planet earth does that. but if you are talking about some soul or something, then you are pretty much just as crazy as the catholics or poseidon worshipers or scientologists or whatever. if you are a yoga instructor and are scoring all manner of flexible chicks with this mumbo jumbo, then i salute you, sir. otherwise your meditation nonsense is an embarassment to your species.
You're too cynical. From a lazy atheist this rant means little. We are even further from the subject of this thread.
that isnt an argument. your meditation and soul searching mysticism is jibberish. my acknowledgement of that means i am sane, not cynical. true, we have gotten a bit off topic, but it is worth it so you can be reminded that reality is better than transcendental eastern nonsense. from now on, try to use words that have meanings instead of referencing the "spirit" and "soul".
Faith and superstition are two vastly different things. Faith is a firm confidence in a system of religious beliefs that does not depend on logical proof or material evidence. Superstition, on the other hand, is belief is something that is contradicted by proven evidence or belief grounded in ignorance or magic. It does not take a genius to recognize we are not perfect human beings. That does not mean we walk around with a constant guilt-ridden state. It simply means we are aware of our shortcomings. But having said that, a little guilt is not such a bad thing. It is a sign of a healthy conscience.
you just said the same thing twice. faith is the belief in something without evidence. like the belief that the number 13 is unlucky, or that a rabbit's foot is lucky. there is no evidence for religion or superstition, so you need faith. they are 100% exactly the same. it doesnt matter of you think jesus or the rabbit's foot in your pocket will save you. either way you have faith in something, in spite of the evidence. i hope you can really understand this. it is important.
You need to go back and read it again. Superstition is a belief in something that is contradicted by proven, reliable evidence. This is not the case with faith which is not contradicted by proven evidence; it is something for which there is simply no proof one way or the other. I hope you can understand this.
No Skin off of your back? Ever heard of Babylon? For those of you who say it doesn't affect you one way or another, read the Bible. God destroyed Babylon for their perverse and wicked society. Babylon was a main area of homosexuality back in those times. It was not unusual to be gay in Babylon and there were no laws against it. If we as Americans allow gay marriage, are we any better than Babylon? If God destroyed one society for this already, why should we make the same mistakes as the Babylonians?
god is all loving now. he only destroyed things in the old testament. he went to confession and changed his ways after anger-management.
He went to confession and changed his ways after anger-management? o: My friend, you are completely mocking God by making that kind of statement. That statement is uncalled for and personally, I find it offensive. :angry:
