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What's your opinion on both spirituality and religion?

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Darik Majoren answered

I think we have moved passed what Spirituality USED to mean.

I think NOW, it has more to do with finding one's center and understanding one's self. Learning not only to be okay with yourself but embracing that which is you. In doing this we can better understand others, and how we can relate to one another.

Religion has outlived it's usefulness. I believe it stymies forward movement for the human race. When man needed fillers to satisfy the "Why" it played it's part, but we have the means and understanding to be good with "We don't know." as a viable answer. It keeps us moving forward to try and answer this not just as a particular sect or religious belief system, but as a species working together.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dear DarkM,
Just for fun I checked the Internet for Sam Harris' book...the split brain stuff that does interest me...and it has indeed been reviewed (favorably) by such groups as The Secular Buddhist Association and The Spiritualist Naturalist Society!
I smiled softly coming upon quotes from the book such as this:
"(Harris') description of a peace that came over him upon his visit to the location of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount near the Sea of Galilee."
From whatever source you want to call it, Sam Harris is receiving affirmation of his good work, his human journey...in my interpretation, my way of seeing, at any rate.

I appreciate knowing about the book, ty..
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
I would have to review the book again, but I thought it was in chapter 6. I actually have it on my phone so I might give it another listen while at work today.
The split brain is patients having the corpus callosum severed or absent, so as to eliminate the main connection between the two hemispheres of the brain. Usually this is done to alleviate the Neural "Storms" associated with severe epileptic seizers.
You can read the more in depth story in his book but the synopsis is that each side of the brain developed its own individual personality regarding wants desires . . . etc.
The idea being that working independently the sides were a complete person . . . in this consciousness was split. The question posed, if there was a soul this person would now have two by definition.
I found it enlightening to say the least.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
DarkM, yes that is what I found on the Internet...and if you do reread, your further observations are of interest and requested!
Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

They are not the same thing; I have respect for the former, though not the latter; and one's observance of either type (or not) is a fundamental right of humanity.

Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

Choose one or choose both.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Spirituality is the search for meaning, possibly in places where there is no meaning. Religion is the bureaucracy of the soul.

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Tom Jackson answered

Spirituality is the sense that there is something "afoot" in the universe and the attempt to find out what that is.

Religion is a particular set of shared beliefs and agreed upon ceremonies and rules by which we acknowledge the existence of and interact with as a group with what we find is "afoot."

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Cookie Hill answered

A spiritual person wants to know the answers to questions as these, Why am I here?  Why is there so much suffering on this earth? Does God care about us? Is there life after death? We need to know the answers to such questions in order to have a meaningful life

Religion can be whatever you devote your time and energy too. It could have nothing to do with what the true God, but a lot to do with the traditions of men. Matthew 15:9

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