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…..and if we’re fixated on the idea of defining “spiritual” – good luck. There’s over 27 definitions (or more) because again – it REALLY depends on the lens by which you see the world. We go into this with a confirmation bias (@Davis whether you accept that or not it is the truth).

I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I think we DO connect wit…[Read more]

@davis – we can give you definitions til we’re blue in the face, but you will probably continue to ignore them.

That’s because you rarely give a definition that actually describes things in meaningful ways. They are full of weasel words, vagueries, subject avoiding, non-committal references and basically ever device imaginable to avoid making any…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@davis – we can give you definitions til we’re blue in the face, but you will probably continue to ignore them.  For example: The Spiritual Soldier

From that article: “I relaxed my opposition to spirituality after reading George Vallaint’s (2008) “Spiritual evolution.” I summarized his position as that it is the exper…[Read more]

@davis – we can give you definitions til we’re blue in the face, but you will probably continue to ignore them.  For example: The Spiritual Soldier

@Davis

If anything, humanists usually have more experience (via critical thinking and exposing themselves to knowledge about other cultures and philosophical ideas through the ages and around the world) with trying to see the world through the eyes of those with different world views.

That’s what you tell yourself. You can go ahead and believe t…[Read more]

@Davis

Yeah well what does spiritual mean? What do you mean by this statement? I cannot understand it. Please elaborate

I already gave one example when I was talking to Reg about the recommendation I received from a medical doctor (a physiatrist to be exact).

@Davis

Lo dijo Blas.

Did you actually read what I wrote?

@Davis

Cada uno habla de la feria segun le va en ella.

@Davis

It is enormously high and the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it.

Drug cartels are all over the world. So I don’t know if I would really say the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it. The thing about the United States and the high levels of incarceration has a lot to do with the fact that prison in and of itself h…[Read more]

@Davis

I believe there are a few users here on atheist zone who claim they live in southern rural areas with high levels of crime and that their houses get broken into by meth-heads and they honestly believe their only hope in these situations is having a gun.

Davis the way that you talk, I don’t think you’ve ever lived in a place like that. Let…[Read more]

@Davis

In my masters degree I studied American human rights and the justice system writing my masters thesis on the American prison system, the relationship between poverty in the US and levels of crime, (especially compared with other countries) and the death penalty.

Yeah? Well I obtain my masters in forensic psychology, and when I find wrong…[Read more]

@Davis

I admire your intellect. But the way that you strung all of those ideas together trying to connect them… was utterly false. I’m not sure even where to begin to unravel that mess.