Mr. Sausages Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Such ideas are spiritual in origin. Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgarian Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Didn't we do this thread not very long ago with TJ asking the same question again? There's no meaning to life except that which you create for yourself. The only morality in the world is what humans have either evolved or created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smelly Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 The meaning of life is inner peace and a life of self improvement, not at the detriment of others. But if your a person who is soulless then its "MONEY MONEY MONEY" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I think you'll find this is TJ.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Get hold of or buy on line some of the "Silver Birch" series of books. They are a bit scarce being rather off mainstream so you will not see any in libraries or bookshops as such but you can get them from the Spiritualists National Union, Stansted Hall, Essex. That's the big house you can see on the edge of what is it M11 or is it M25 on the far side of Stansted Runway... Why would anyone look to Spiritualism for answers? Spiritualism is a flim flam industry which preys on the vulnerable, much the same as televangelists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 There's no meaning to life except that which you create for yourself. The only morality in the world is what humans have either evolved or created. Okay, that is a valid answer regarding meaning, but "this is what humans evolved or created" is hardly grounds for a system of ethics. Why was slavery wrong? Why is killing wrong? Why is equality good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 afundie-cafeterian-deist-atheist.jpg Sorry, the atheist has devolved back to fundamentalist. I don't think this question can ever be asked too many times. It's a constant question people should ask themselves continually, because as Socrates said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' It is through examination and asking questions that we give life meaning. Theism, atheism and the other isms are beside the point. It is better to have examined the question and become an atheist than to never ask the question and remain a theist, and vice versa. If Descartes was right with his 'I think, therefore I am', what is a person who doesn't think and question??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Such ideas are spiritual in origin. As are jihad, transubstantiation, and original sin. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/ http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100825/full/news.2010.427.html Jihad, transubstantiation and original sin are religious in origin, not spiritual. They are doctrines invented by religious control freaks who want to control other people. Those people and their crackpot ideas are called religion, not spirituality. And Barrie's "Spiritualism" is another religion / cult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2bad Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 That's why I haven't been to Thailand and I doubt I'll ever go. I do feel quite sick at the thought of old men perving over young girls, wrong uns. like this? http://www.manxforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/58807-mocha-girls/?p=984059 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Jeez TJ you write some complete bollocks. There us no meaning of life if all you do is sit by a computer pumping such shit out all day and night. Go out and find the meaning of life. It's in the people you meet and the places you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Jihad, transubstantiation and original sin are religious in origin, not spiritual. They are doctrines invented by religious control freaks who want to control other people. Those people and their crackpot ideas are called religion, not spirituality. And Barrie's "Spiritualism" is another religion / cult. Wikipedia (yes, I know) defines spirituality as "the praxix and process of personal transformation, either in accordance with traditional religious ideals or, increasingly, oriented on subjective experience and psychological growth independently of any specific religious context." You appear to be postulating an interpretation that sounds closer to Rudolf Otto's definition of the "numinous", in which case you might as well just pop some LSD and sing about yellow submarines. Edit: corrected "Rudolph" to "Rudolf" - I must have had Santa Claus in my head, for some reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 LSD is a key, not a door. Drugs can go hand in hand with spiritual experience. There is a lot of evidence that ancient human culture, art, literature, all began with the use of hallucinogens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I forgot to add, I believe the meaning of life is to learn so we can make the world a better place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I forgot to add, I believe the meaning of life is to learn so we can make the world a better place.Tell wasps that. There a lifeform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I forgot to add, I believe the meaning of life is to learn so we can make the world a better place.Tell wasps that. There They're a lifeform. Human beings have a divine soul. Animals do not - they have a spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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