Posted: Jun 15, 2010 9:00 pm
Gallstones wrote:Gallstones wrote:falasha wrote:Fallible wrote:falasha wrote:Spirituality is not a physical attribute so it is not quantifiable or testable. Since it does not adhere to scientific investigative techniques, New Athiests have determined it does not exist. I have had experiences that I have labeled "spiritual" for want of a better word. Since I was not raised in religion, I have never attributed it to some god.
OK so you've told us what spirituality is not, but not what it is. Instead you have jumped to 'atheists have determined it does not exist'. How can we determine any such thing, and more importantly how can you claim that women realise we are spiritual, if you won't even describe it?
ETA: By the way, I did go and read that thread you mentioned. Nowhere in it did you define 'spiritual'. You simply said that it is a nebulous term (I agree completely), and then provided an anecdote about an OBE as evidence.
MORE women than men realize we have a spiritual component to our existence. How about this as a definition; Experience that does not adhere to laws of physical dimension.
falasha, no one--male or female--realizes any such thing. They interpret particular experiences as "spiritual" and then ascribe the same characterization to any similar experiences. "Spirituality" is nothing more than proactive confirmation bias.
Can you tell us how you tell the difference between what is spiritual and what is ordinary?
But I absolutely did not have preconceived bias before I had this experience. I was not religious and did not believe in god. It is not ordinary to look down upon one's own body with the feeling that it was not "me".