I personally haven't but others have and I'll let them explain themselves...I already explained my version of spiritually has nothing to do with a higher power.
"I'm spiritual but not religious." Help me out y'all. What does this mean?
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I personally haven't but others have and I'll let them explain themselves...I already explained my version of spiritually has nothing to do with a higher power.
I knew when I read the title how this thread was going to go, and who would dominate the discussion. 
As for the actual question, I say that, or a variation of it. I'd rather say that I think religion as it is most definitely isn't for me ... but because of my background I do feel as if there is a higher power. Pushing me to be more specific than that could turn into a long conversation because by me saying higher power it basically implies that I believe in a God, or many gods ... and that's where it gets tricky.
As for the actual question, I say that, or a variation of it. I'd rather say that I think religion as it is most definitely isn't for me ... but because of my background I do feel as if there is a higher power. Pushing me to be more specific than that could turn into a long conversation because by me saying higher power it basically implies that I believe in a God, or many gods ... and that's where it gets tricky.
Where do I start? For 1 I'm too much of an independent thinker to believe the whole "God works in mysterious ways" cop out that religious people always resort to. People have been trying to feed me the bible my whole life, my granddad was a deacon, my mother is a minister and I went to catholic school my first 7 years of school, many people have tried many angles to force feed me the bible, none of them made sense. As I got older I began to read into other religions, even studied Islam for a while, they all had 2 things in common, they all used "faith" as a cop out for questions they can't answer, and they all were used as a tool for enslavement and justification of enslavement of people which the religion was forced upon. That's an old African proverb that pretty much sums it all up, it goes "first we had thr land and the bible, now we have the Bible and they have the land"
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Uncle Kingpin
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Oh i get it you one of those smart dumb nikkas. Religious Organization isnt redundant, just like Criminal Organization, Feminist Organization, etc. If you dont believe in God, it doesnt make you any smarter than a believer. It's a greater act of faith to believe there is no God, than it is to have faith that there is.
Aren't you the one who just said religion is an organization?
Uncle Kingpin
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So you've never heard the term "Organized Religion"?No. Dummy.
Gravity is the phenomenon of massive attacting things to themselves.
We just try to describe it to the best of our ability.
And you can't prove unicorns don't exist.
thats not how this works.
The burden of proof is on the person asserting the claim.
I can't prove a negative.
Neither can you.
The point is not that I can't "disprove" god, its that you can't prove your god. Its YOUR job to support your claim.
I'm not saying you're even wrong. I'm saying that you're not supporting your argument.
Huh?
I don't "believe" things. I go where evidence supports. To "believe" things means you're accepting them without evidence or proof.
Replace "god" with "Zeus" and try that again.
Bingo.
They want the benefits of the belief without the criticism of the association.
I have.
Now wouldn't that imply that there are other types of religions out there?
I knew when I read the title how this thread was going to go, and who would dominate the discussion.
As for the actual question, I say that, or a variation of it. I'd rather say that I think religion as it is most definitely isn't for me ... but because of my background I do feel as if there is a higher power. Pushing me to be more specific than that could turn into a long conversation because by me saying higher power it basically implies that I believe in a God, or many gods ... and that's where it gets tricky.
sounds like you can't come to terms with the fact you're responsible for your own life.
Flay Mayweather
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Nah not all at. I was saying that he can't prove it exists and he believes in it. He said I can't prove to him that Gods exist as if he can prove to me the things he believe in.
People who never seen their real parents still believe they have parents, if they didn't have parents how would they be alive without someone giving birth To them or creating them. The same thing goes with God , you're here and that should be the only proof you need that there's a God.
Uncle Kingpin
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The opposite of organized would be disorganized, or unorganized. Can you think of a term people misuse in place of "Unorganized Religion???*Hint - The answer is "spiritual"
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Mindfield333
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thats true. but most things regarding spirituality are unsubstantiated to a degree
Mindfield333
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nah."I don't go to church but don't want to go as far as calling myself atheist/agnostic"