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Author: tata Date: Jul 9, 2008 09:06
-- Telling everyone how "spiritual" you are
-- Reading "spiritual" books
-- Believing things that other "spiritual" people believe
-- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
-- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
-- Wearing "spiritual" clothes
-- Buying crystals
-- Saying "Namaste"
-- Cutting and pasting "spiritual" quotes from "spiritual" people
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Author: PubliusPublius Date: Jul 9, 2008 10:33
> -- Telling everyone how "spiritual" you are
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> -- Reading "spiritual" books
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> -- Believing things that other "spiritual" people believe
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> -- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
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> -- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
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> -- Wearing "spiritual" clothes
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> -- Buying crystals
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> -- Saying "Namaste"
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> -- Cutting and pasting "spiritual" quotes from "spiritual" people
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Author: tata Date: Jul 9, 2008 10:58
On Jul 9, 1:33 pm, Publius nospam.comcast.net> wrote:>> -- Telling everyone how "spiritual" you are
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>> -- Reading "spiritual" books
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>> -- Believing things that other "spiritual" people believe
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>> -- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
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>> -- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
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>> -- Wearing "spiritual" clothes
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>> -- Buying crystals
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Author: PubliusPublius Date: Jul 9, 2008 11:07
> Sometimes the only way to really understand what something *is* is to
> discover, through experience, what it *is not*. By denying the
> negative, the positive is left standing there to "see" as plain as
> day.
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> Otherwise we are always trapped in language, which can never
> adequately describe "what is".
Not knowing what "spirtual" means, I have a hard time deciding whether any
of the behaviors you list are "spiritual" or not.
I suppose I could identify a "spiritual" book if the jacket blurb declared
that it was one.
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Author: tata Date: Jul 9, 2008 11:59
On Jul 9, 2:07 pm, Publius nospam.comcast.net> wrote:>> Sometimes the only way to really understand what something *is* is to
>> discover, through experience, what it *is not*. By denying the
>> negative, the positive is left standing there to "see" as plain as
>> day.
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>> Otherwise we are always trapped in language, which can never
>> adequately describe "what is".
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> Not knowing what "spirtual" means, I have a hard time deciding whether any
> of the behaviors you list are "spiritual" or not.
Words always fail, but to me it can be understood by contrasting with
religion. A "religious" person says this book is the law, here is the
process I must follow to be a "good" person, and if I don't do these
things, then bad things will happen.
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Author: toolytooly Date: Jul 9, 2008 15:34
"Publius" nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> -- Reading "spiritual" books
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>> -- Believing things that other "spiritual" people believe
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>> -- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
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>> -- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
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>> -- Wearing "spiritual" clothes
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>> -- Buying crystals
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Author: WordsmithWordsmith Date: Jul 9, 2008 15:50
On Jul 9, 11:58Â am, ta nc.rr.com> wrote:> On Jul 9, 1:33 pm, Publius nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
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Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Jul 9, 2008 16:56
On Jul 10, 8:50Â am, Wordsmith rocketmail.com> wrote:> On Jul 9, 11:58Â am, ta nc.rr.com> wrote:
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Author: tata Date: Jul 10, 2008 08:07
On Jul 9, 6:50 pm, Wordsmith rocketmail.com> wrote:> On Jul 9, 11:58 am, ta nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>> -- Telling everyone how "spiritual" you are
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>>>> -- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
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>>>> -- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
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Author: PubliusPublius Date: Jul 10, 2008 10:25
> A "spiritual" person, on the other hand, does not follow some
> authority or subscribe to a belief system. Rather, their actions
> spring naturally from a state of understanding, wisdom, and non-ego.
I'm not sure what the "non-ego" implies. Aren't all behaviors aimed at
attaining some end important to the acting agent?
Would a "spiritual" person, then, be any nonreligious, wise person?
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