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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Re^2: Atheism and Intelligence
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:11:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.001122.24808@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <o7H2VB2w165w@iowegia.uucp> <1992Dec26.092545.16601@eng.umd.edu> <4339@novavax.UUCP>
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- In article <4339@novavax.UUCP> mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman) writes:
- >tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:
- >
- >>I'd like to add that there is nothing wrong with developing
- >>a sense of spirituality while remaining an atheist. I enjoy
- >>Wiccan circles, catholic masses, technopagan rituals, etc.
- >>I know the spirituality I experience is metaphorical and
- >>not part of the reality which science reveals.
- [...]
- >So anyway, answer me this: does human spirituality, in any of its
- >forms, necessarily require a belief in [a] god[ess, s, esses]? Or
- >may one be 'spiritual' without any more than a recognition that
- >one is human, and thus [perhaps] one enjoys certain rituals for
- >themselves, and for the human contact they involve?
-
- Not to be a party-pooper, but again, this is obviously an issue of
- the definition of "spiritual". If I were to define it as a "lofty"
- feeling, or some kind of altered state, possibly pleasant/blissful,
- I would say that meditation is a form of spirituality that does
- not require any kind of "spirits" or deities. I would say that
- "spirituality" is another of those words that is tossed around
- quite a bit without an agreed-upon, specific definition.
-
- GMS
-