How Spiritual are you?

[Hygro]

Enough about how religious! I keep seeing the different polls, and none of them apply. Religion is an order, a method of instilling either spiritual beliefs, societal values, and/or (ornd!) community feelings. One could be entirely religious and not spiritual, totally spiritual and not religious, or totally or neither of both.

The two just aren't mutually inclusive.

So where do you stand on spirituality?

 

[WillJ]

Not at all spiritual, unless by "spiritual" you mean enjoying alcoholic solutions.

 

[Hygro]

No that doesnt count

 

[Mescalhead]

I am very spiritual, meaning that I believe to live in the subconcious as much as possible is desirable. Other than that, life seems to be best taken as a cosmic farce. But I remain hopeful in the knowledge that however long we ruminate on the nature of the universe, our minds simply aren't equipped to grasp absolutes. And scientific "knowledge" is never final and will always be augmented to to include newly acquired observations. This tells me that for all we know, there are infinite possibilities.

 

[stratego]

Does schizophrenia count towards my spirituality points?

 

[cgannon64]

If spirituality is what I think it is - beleiving there is more to the world than meets the eye and can be explained by science - then I am completely spiritual.

 

[addiv]

How exactly do we define spiritual? I don't believe in any supernatural stuff, but I do think the subconscious plays a big role, but I don't know if that qualifies as spiritual.

 

[stormbind]

I guess I'm part spiritual and part physical

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

To answer the question, "not at all"

 

[CivCube]

Spirituality can be best defined as a quest for inner truth and the development of one's consciousness. It does not require a belief in God.

 

[Silverflame]

Mostly not, but I am a little. Mostly so I have someone to blame when something awful happens, and someone to thank when good luck comes around (rare, but still happens).

 

[Loaf Warden]

This is a harder question. The world 'religious' lends itself to a quick and easy working definition (for example, 'believing in or adhering to the tenets of a religion'), but 'spiritual' does not. How are we defining spirituality? I don't know that there are any definitions that fit me, but I can't say categorically "I am completely non-spiritual" until we define our terms.

 

[CivCube]

I think if you're spiritual, you're actively trying to get a cohesive connection with the universe as a whole--a higher awareness of everything.

 

[Moss]

Well if trying to find a higer awareness of everything is the definition we're using, then, yes, I am quite spiritual.

 

[Tomoyo]

I a very spiritual. I constanty give myself headaches by thinking about it. Then I walk into a post and really get a headache.

 

[KaNick]

Not at all. I meditate, but not in a spiritual way.

 

[Hygro]

KaNick, that's quite surprising to me! I figured you were quite spiritual, especially with a sig like that.

 

[KaNick]

Well... I don't really know what you mean by spiritual. I guess you could call me that I just don't consider myself to be so.

 

[polymath]

At sites of antiquity and astronomical interest, I often feel a deep kinship with my fellow man, struggling thousands of years ago to make sense of our place in the cosmos, and whose efforts make me come to the same place of their labours to contemplate the same mysteries.

I suppose that is spiritual. But do I think we have soul? Definitely not. So it depends how you define spiritual.

 

[Hygro]

Definitely not? How can you have so much faith that we don't?