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Sprituality

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Faoda
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We've already gone over this with the whole 'religion' thread but I insist that spirituality is not nesissarily the same thing as religion. What does everyone else think?



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May 21 2002 9:47PM
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caleBCaleb
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yeah, you can be spiritual in your own way without religion in my opinion
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May 21 2002 9:50PM
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FreshCoast
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Spirituality can be very different, people can just create thier own beliefs and live by them!
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May 21 2002 9:52PM
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SkunKJiB
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It's all based on morals, you believe what you think is right, and follow those standards. I'm down on religion right now, though. All the war in the world right now.......
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May 21 2002 9:53PM
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1080chick
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i think spirituality is a totally different thing. people that are spiritual don't necessarily have to believe in a god or anything. and i don't think that religion is necessarily spiritual. i mean, im kinda spritual i guess but im not religious at all...i go to church like twice a year--christmas and easter
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May 22 2002 12:02AM
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TAK
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I've always been down on religion (we won't get in to that again) and I assumed that spiritualiy was the same thing. But, recently I've learned about Toaist so I guess I am spiritual, in an atheist sorta way. Eh?
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May 22 2002 3:38PM
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PhattTim
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I agree with 1080chick. I think that depending on the way you see it, Spirituality can be everything or nothing at all to do with religion. For me, skiing is a spiritual thing. Park jibbing isn't but when I'm standing on a ridge with the raging noise of silence in my ears and beautiful expanse before me, that is spiritual, that is me taking a breath, holding it, letting it out and thinking, 'whoa'. It's a state of physical and mental equilibrium with or without God.

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May 22 2002 4:00PM
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Skibum420
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yeah..what phattim said
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May 23 2002 12:11AM
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sirjibsalot
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i think its bullshit...its the same thing as religion...just something to keep your inner peace...or whatever...
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May 23 2002 12:18AM
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witchbaby666
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religon to me is organized spirituality.
and i think that is sick. (the bad sick)



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May 23 2002 12:24AM
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Faoda
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I agree with Tim and 1080chick. I think spirituality is what makes you want to live life and gives you purpose and I don't think a diety is the only way of acheving spirituality. I think it's all about mixing and matching and finding your own happiness.
btw, Tim, I loved what you said about skiing being spiritual. I completely agree. Isn't that why we are all here together at NS?



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May 23 2002 1:34AM
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Ozemale
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i find that when i just sit down and think i... well i dunno what happens but it really gets to me. I saw the Dalai Lama on wednesday and he had some really good things to say on the topic, so many i couldn't possibly put them all down


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May 23 2002 1:43AM
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1080enemy
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religion and spirituality are different. u can have one without the other,or both, or neither. I think spirituality is being at peace with yourself and nature. some religious people I know arn't spiritual at all. they go to church every sunday for an hour or so, and then they are completly un spiritual.
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May 23 2002 1:45AM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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hmm I see a lot of people adding things to the definition of 'religion' religion isn't necesarily going to church. religion is just your type of belief.

I think Spirituality is just recognizing that there is something beyond humans... something greater that connects everything.

If you wanna learn about spirituality in the sense that it is the force that connects all beings just read up on 'Inscape' and 'Instress'. I just did a reasearch essay on a poet that talked about both so I had to do some mega-research.

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May 23 2002 1:46AM
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powder99
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its just another type of religion
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May 23 2002 2:22AM
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SVHucker
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yeah I think you can be spiritual without going to church, but I think church is a good thing. get to be with all kinds of people with similar beliefs and stuff, it's not a bad place to be

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May 23 2002 2:26AM
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Canadian_kicker
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yeah i hear what times saying. getting first tracks.. is cool even in ontario. just being alone. doing something that fills u with joy is very spiritual. like when me and beau are in the middle of a field at dusk just standing there watching everything around us. with no noise or just the birds its a cool feeling
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May 23 2002 1:01PM
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ESB
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Okay, this is more philosophy than spirituality... although the two are really interchangable in any case and especially this one... but take it as you will. Anyone here into Objectivism, Ayn Rand? The essence of a man's spirit is in his creative capacity.
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May 23 2002 5:37PM
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skipimp_
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If you read a lot of books on it and stuff, you will realize if you are a completely spiritual person, you ccan't be religious at all, because religion violates the basic idea of spitirualism. God's are fine to believe in, but studying religion is like moving into a pre-fab home, someone made it up for you, youdidn't build it yourself. Spirituality is all about making your own moral beliefs based on what you believe in. In my religion, I make up the rules, not God, I just have to be sure I don't abuse the power I've given to myself.

Did that make sense?

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May 23 2002 6:26PM
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grehtnorth
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so, where do your morals come from? If religion is like moving into a pre-fab house, with morals and accountability built into the framework, I'm wondering where you get your foundation.
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May 24 2002 12:33AM
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PhattTim
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Kami, you'd get on real damn well with my sister bro, she's like mad thinking along the same lines as you are aye. I see what you're saying dude. werd.

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May 24 2002 5:44AM
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skipimp_
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I get my foundation on personal experience and examining human behaviour....wait not on human behaviour, on the behaviour of all living things, I compare animals to humans constantly 'cause we're not that different...true, I believe that eating red meat is bad for you..but Im a weak soul, I can't resist...So I'm going to hell? No, because I make up the rules...I get bad karma, especially when I ran out on a bill at don cherry's, that wsn't cool. But havoing sex before marrige? thats just some stupid rule society made up mto keep it's females from becoming prostitutes...I'm not going to hell for fucking a chick when we're not married fuck that hippie shit





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May 24 2002 8:13PM
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