jody

@Jody – I agree. I am going to build a new clothes line in the back garden after watching that. 🙂

Jody is the only one who honestly answered my question.

@Jody

How do you measure being a “good person?” Is it merely the act of not lying and following the laws?

@Jody Lee

I would rather risk an unjust God than abandon my intellectual intelligence.

How precisely do you decide what is “just” or “unjust?”

@Jody.

Firstly our conversations do tend to digress but usually we get back on track again. It is all down to the meaning of words. Any philosophical conversation that does not have precise meanings attached to the main words used tends to wander.

Can you give an example of the descriptive value of “spiritual” in a sentence that some other wor…[Read more]

lol, at least we can say we know what we’re talking about now.  I think it’s important, that if we use a word, we know what it means.

I think that spirituality is equally accessible to religious (God-believing) and non-religious people, depending on the frame of reference.  It’s easier for religious people because it’s their meat and drink.  Wo…[Read more]

@Jody Lee

Maybe I haven’t explained myself well…….The stars died so you could be here today.

I think you have just about answered your own question. But once again we are down to the meaning of words. Let me offer something as a starting point to reach for a workable definition.

Spiritual is a general term people use to express their react…[Read more]

@Jody

I need a crutch

It’s not a crutch. And the people who might say it is a crutch are stupid and don’t what they are talking about.

@Jody

THANK YOU

Sorry to say but it is a boo’d topic among atheists. People will tell you things like, “where is your “evidence?”….I’ve decided after mulling it over that NO ONE has evidence for everything. And people believe things all the time without fully understanding them. That’s one reason I don’t really consider myself an “atheist.” I…[Read more]

@Jody Lee

Welcome!

We differ in opinions on this forum….me personally? I see there is a LOT of scientific evidence to support the idea that we ARE wired this way. It IS innate….si me personally? I no longer fight it and just embrace it. We are the way we are for a reason. Trying to be something or someone you’re not is like trying to fit a s…[Read more]