Reply To: Spiritual atheist.

[Davis]

Simon Paynton wrote:

I consider myself a spiritual atheist, because I’m spiritual and an atheist. I’m a lot of other things as well.

I think that the word “spiritual” isn’t an exclusively religious word, and even though it happens to have the word “spirit” in it, it’s OK to appropriate it for atheist purposes, if we put the word “atheist” in front of it to show the variety of spirituality we are talking about.

@Winter Lily – if you want to know about Wiccans, people who do spells and rituals to try and change the world, etc, why don’t you investigate it? Try getting into it and see if you achieve any results that are better than chance. Personally I’ve found that behaving bravely and unselfishly is all that’s necessary to change the world, and to bring extra good luck.

@Davis was running an experiment to see what happens if you disrespect Tarot cards. I said it would bring calamitous bad luck, he said he would try it. I don’t know what’s happened about that, he hasn’t been around for a while…

Oh sorry. I still have them with me. I even brought them with me to a wedding in Galicia. I haven’t destroyed them or pissed on them yet…but not to worry…this weekend is as good as any time. I’ll keep you updated.

By the way Simon…could you speculate as to the mechanism behind how the tarrot cards will effect my imminent doom? Is it a sort of radiation that comes from the cards? Do the cards summon some gallactic space wind that then points daggers at me to help direct spirit monkeys to menace me?