Who are the A/As on the board?

by starfish422 87 Replies latest jw experiences

  • gumby
    gumby

    Quoting San francisco Jim,

    I have slammed the door on religion, but not spirituality

    That's me also.

    Gumby

  • patio34
    patio34

    sorry, i don't see the difference much between religious, spiritual, and theist. I'm atheist, ethical, and philosophical. maybe it's semantics, but words carry such shades of meaning.

    Pat

  • SanFranciscoJim
    SanFranciscoJim

    To quote a saying I heard a long time ago:

    "Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."

  • Mackin
    Mackin

    Linus Torvalds is God.



  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    Good quote Jim.

    To my mind, religion is the outward (often corporate/communal) expression of spirituality.
    It can be emulated by those with no inherent spirituality, making the distinction hard to discern.

    Spirituality comes from within, usually as a response to the divine, regardless of perception of deity.

  • starfish422
    starfish422

    Well, I also agree wholeheartedly with the distinction between religion and spirituality; IMNSHO, I believe the two have little, if anything, to do with each other.

    Jim, I liked that quote too.

    Here's another one I like: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

  • Abaddon
    Abaddon

    I am not an atheist, it's like calling someone who doesn't beleieve in Santa an asantaist, it implies disbelief in something when of course the point is that there isn't such a thing to believe in.

    Actually, to be accurate I am an areligonist. I conclude that whilst there may be something that would fit the term 'god' in the Universe, there is no indication that it has left a instruction book for us, just lots of people who have claimed that god left the instructions with them.

  • acsot
    acsot

    According to a quiz on beliefnet someone posted, I am mostly Neo-pagan, Mahayana Buddhist, New Age, with Unitarian Universalist and Theravada Buddhism thrown in, none of which proscribe belief in a single all-powerful deity.

    I believe in some sort of cosmic energy/universal connection between all beings, but not in the gods of the Bible or Koran.

    I call myself agnostic, but am not sure if that is an accurate word. Maybe dazed and confused are more precise descriptions .

  • integ
    integ

    I believe in Ted Jaracz.

  • Blueblades
    Blueblades

    An Atheist rejects all religious belief and denies the existence of God;that's not me.

    An Agnostic questions the existence of God,heaven,etc.in the absence of material proof and in unwillingness to accept supernatural revelation;that's not me.

    So, where does that leave me?

    I'm a Deist.Using my reasoning and rational thinking I believe in God as a creative moving force,and reject formal religion and its doctrines of revelation,etc.

    Blueblades

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