re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Personal and subjective. You do occasionally ponder the where and why of our existence, don’t you? And whatever conclusions you draw are your own, subjective and personal.

Please do not conflate spirituality or religious sense with any organized religion. There is overlap but they are far far from identical.

“Religious sense” is personal and subjective.

I might ponder the “where” or the “how” of our existence, but am not ashamed to say “I don’t know” if I don’t have an answer to a question. I don’t have to posit something that would violate every law of physics and chemistry discovered to posit a “how.”

I’m not conflating “spirituality” with “religion” as I don’t know what “spirituality” means. Organised religions frequently invoke the term though to define how they feel. I can’t say if they overlap or not because I do not know what “spiritual” is, and no two people can give a concrete definition for it.

As best as I can tell from the outside looking in, in the Middle Ages the term meant orienting toward the image of God (which I also don’t understand), but has expanded in modern times to be entirely a subjective experience.