• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Spiritual by defult

What would you consider yourself as?

  • Religious

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Spitirual

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Both

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Neither

    Votes: 9 47.4%

  • Total voters
    19

Electra

Active Member
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?
 
Last edited:

allfoak

Alchemist
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?
Labels are detrimental to one's growth.
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?

I'm neither. I'm not religious because I'm not good at routine and discipline. I love religious life. Not my match though.

I'm not spiritual. I don't have a knack for religions that are abstract. What is love and hate? If I had no experience with love by physical interaction with the world its just a label for a foreign experience that could be anything. I can't hate. I dislike behavior but I keep myself from news etc because there is no use to experience hate when you can control the trigger.

I'm an artist. I am religious out of freedom of expression and art. I'm spiritual by means these things define my sanity. Its not disciplined and not in itself abstract.

I'm neither.
 
Last edited:

David T

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?
Nice. Sort of discovering it's just who you are rather than trying to be a something.. That's how I am. I play music it's a good place to express for me. To many people writing books and telling everyone how to be like them in Context to the topic "spirituality" That's nonsense really no matter what. To many guru experts with zero talent except marketing. Like horrid music and poetry in one place!!!
 
Last edited:

Phantasman

Well-Known Member
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?

"Everything that came from the perishable will perish, since it came from the perishable. But whatever came from imperishableness does not perish but becomes imperishable. So, many men went astray because they had not known this difference and they died."

Mary said to him: "Lord, then how will we know that?"

The perfect Savior said: "Come (you) from invisible things to the end of those that are visible, and the very emanation of Thought will reveal to you how faith in those things that are not visible was found in those that are visible, those that belong to Unbegotten Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!- Sophia of Jesus Christ

Perish is in the Bible 156 times. Imperish, not once.

Understanding the difference has made my life a blessing beyond what I ever expected.
 

allfoak

Alchemist
Why? Doesn't it make more sense to put the word "might be" or "sometimes" in there?
one can say whatever they please or use any label they want if they understand what they are doing.
Many do not.
I label myself as an alchemist but it is only for this msg board.
While I use many of the alchemist's tools and methods, it is only for the purpose of growth.
I use many other methods and concepts to achieve my goal, which can be confusing to those who do not understand the limits of labels.
 
Last edited:

Srivijaya

Active Member
What do you identify with? how does this help your life?
I chose spiritual but not because I identify with it or label myself that way, it just seems to be a default in my character. Religions are managed by unrealized beings and thus always distort the truth in some way. So I tend to keep them at a distance only taking what I need from the source scriptures, when I need it.

It's not like I'm permanently spiritual either. I can be worldly as well, it's just that I don't seem to 'live it' the way others do. I've never been able to see material things as anything more than temporary and I can't feel driven by the incentive of acquiring them.

This has often lead to accusations of a lack of ambition on my part but without that drive and sense of satisfaction behind materialism, what can I do about it, apart from go through the motions just to get by?

I'm very content with the path I have found and it has helped my life on numerous occasions but in a quiet understated way. It provides a counterweight to the materialism I'm surrounded with and has answered questions I have always found compelled to ask, and it's provided me with much insight.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
Labels are detrimental to one's growth.

Why? Doesn't it make more sense to put the word "might be" or "sometimes" in there?

While those qualifiers can be helpful, in my experience, applying a label to one's beliefs creates a boundary and limits what one can potentially know while operating within of the confines of said label.

But then again, labels are useful in communicating to others what one believes. Labels are fine so long as they are used with the intent of remaining open to new information.
 

Epic Beard Man

Bearded Philosopher
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?


In the title you meant default*

 
Last edited:

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
I have just recently made a very nice switch.

I came across a simple question, as we've stated above ^^.

I was once identified as religious, turning into both, to identifying as spiritual, now as I was looking at the question.

I am neither, as I believe everything is spiritual, so how can I define myself as a 'spiritual person'
that's like saying 'lentil - da'al, t.v - television, hot - boiling water.

It adds nothing new to the object at hand?

I have slowly been embodying this but have only just realised that I have come so far.

What do you identify with? how does this help your life?



Assuming "defult" is a typo meaning "default", I'm dyslexic so it took a few moments to sort that one out.

By default... Is that meaning the start value (birth) or how you consider yourself if you reset now?.

No one is born with belief, it is learned. So i put neither

If you mean now, the answer would still be neither.
 
Top