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Spirit is wind... Im serious guys

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
I can say that you will rarely, if ever, hear me use the term "spirit", save in cases like "team spirit". I don't recognize the concept of spirit or spirits in popular mythology.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
Hmm. How would you define spirit or what other word would you use?
I don't define it and believe it is a concept without realistic foundations. I flatly reject that the wind is a spirit though I suppose one could say that many wind storms are quite spirited.

If spirit is wind, do we "break spirit"?
If anything it is the releasing of said brake and letting the wind, um, err.. rip, although if taken literally, that could prove quite painful!
 
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Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
Its not from my point of view. If you believe that wind is spirit however You define spirit, what is spirit to you and why not say wind if you believe spirit (your def.) is wind?
Actually you said "spirit is wind", so that is YOUR point of view that I am asking about. I am simply asking what YOUR definition of the word spirit is as YOU used it in the original post. I was just wanting you to justify your statement. Personally, I never use the word spirit in any supernatural way, but that is irrelevant.
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
Personally, I never use the word spirit in any supernatural way, but that is irrelevant.

Thats what I wanted to know, how You see it not me.

I believe wind is spirit, yes. But i dont express it that way because wind is wind. Sun is sun. Water is water etc.

I said "some of you believe spirit is wind/wind is spirit", why do You say spirit when wind is wind and sun is sun etc. Why do some of you say spirit of the wind? Isnt that redundent or in your definition of the word, does spirit mean something distinct than that of wind though combined.

Since you dont see the supernatural that way, this question would apply to you unless pretend?
 
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psychoslice

Veteran Member
So, what IS spirit in the context of what the OP means? And why is wind a metaphor of that? Using wind as a metaphor, I could make up plenty of my own definitions....but what is the intended definition?
John 3:8

Like the wind, spirit is invisible. A person cannot see it move or work. However, one can see the effect of what the Spirit does. One can see how it acts on things—just as the wind going through a tree full of leaves. One cannot see the wind, but everyone has seen how it makes the tree's leaves and the branches sway. Some have perhaps witnessed a strong wind knock a nest out of a tree or rip leaves or branches off a tree, but not the wind itself. It is the same with the Spirit. The Spirit moves, and we then can see people react. The people do things. A work gets done. What we see is not the Spirit itself, but the Spirit's fruit
 
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