I like a gin and tonic, and gin is a spirit, so after 5 of them I am definitely spirit-ful.
1 month ago | 78
We have to first agree on a definition of the word “spiritual”.
1 month ago | 29
Spirituality is so ill defined that the question is mute. It's been said that the soul is the single most dead concept in all of theology. Absolutely everything we know about the self and what makes 'you' you all stems from the brain. You mess with the brain, you mess with self. You change or damage your brain, it directly effect your personality. No soul or ill defined concept needed
1 month ago | 47
Have never ever ever managed to find a definition of "spiritual" that makes sense.
1 month ago | 2
Spiritual people when people tell them their emotions are just chemicals
1 month ago | 2
I was Spiritual for a time, as I deconstructed. I get the impression this is often the journey of people who start with a framework of the idea of souls.
1 month ago | 7
As a poll question, this is impossible to answer as everyone’s own context will make it impossible to have a clear and defined answer. I do, but I do not believe in any deity or afterlife. I have a “spiritual” experience when I am amongst the trees, feeing my small place in the world amongst things which are bigger and older than me. I consider this to be a spiritual experience, but I understand for others this doesn’t qualify.
1 month ago | 5
Appreciating art that portrays more than beauty is what I consider spiritual. So yes, I'm spiritual.
1 month ago | 1
I don't even know what spiritual is supposed to mean, so I can't consider myself to be that
1 month ago | 2
People say they are spiritual because they don't want to say they are atheists!
1 month ago | 1
i'd like to believe in spirituality (shifting, karma, maybe even fate) but i just can't.
1 month ago | 4
I am a die hard athiest but I am part of the 6% that said yes. I don't consider my spirituality to be akin to religious spirituality, but rather I almost see the entire universe as a tremendously huge organism that I am a part of, so is the rest of life on this planet, and I feel connected to it. I don't really know how to describe it without sounding hypocritical but its a profound sensation that I want to do reading on but I have no idea where to begin. Our shared humanity could be another way to put it maybe. Idk still working it out.
1 month ago (edited) | 1
Its a word some atheists use to signal being non-threatening to theists, something like, "I don't exactly believe in your god by name, but I'm not calling you delusional either" or "I'm just like you only I use different words." or "I distrust religious institutions, but I respect religion itself." etc.
1 month ago | 6
I used to, because as a child I learned about spiritual and esoteric beliefs from my mother. I see some cherry-picks of beliefs from religions but never been part of those. It's also mostly since covid that I now consider myself an atheist & stopped being a conspiracy theorist. Before I was calling myself agnostic so I could protect those beliefs from being challenged by the same standards that I always judged religious beliefs. Probably because I love my mother and I was feeling that it would be against her to stop believing like she does.
1 month ago (edited) | 1
The Atheist Experience
Do you consider yourself to be "spiritual"?
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