Frank Goad
Well-Known Member
All the people on here who are spiritual but not religious.What has helped you on your path?
As for me I am methodist.
As for me I am methodist.
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All the people on here who are spiritual but not religious.What has helped you on your path?
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Question: if one never attends a Methodist service, then how can they be a Methodist?All the people on here who are spiritual but not religious.What has helped you on your path?
Frank Goad
Well-Known Member
Orbit
I'm a planet
Because for some, it's an identity, not an action. Make of that what you will.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
That's fine & dandy with me as I only wondered how you looked at it.I was baptized methodist.And can talk to other methodists on here.So that works for me.
With my wife & I, it's important to meet in "community" because of all the work the church needs to do and does, especially with working with the poor and disenfranchised as Jesus taught us.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
As the saying goes, "To each their own".
All the people on here who are spiritual but not religious.What has helped you on your path?
I no longer see myself as spiritual so take what I say with a grain of salt.
What helped me was conversations with the Logos/Holy Spirit/God in guise.
Second, I would feel inspired to go somewhere and talk to someone or I'd go directly to a bookstore and grab a specific book. Both, either the person or the book would teach me something specific about spirituality. I'd assume that since this came via inspiration, what I read/was taught could be relied on.
PureX
Veteran Member
The biggest thing, for me, was the experience of being 'broken'. Of having my concept of life, of reality, of myself, of other people, of fate, and of pretty much everything else ... completely destroyed. Exposed, in my own eyes, as a great big pile of idiotic nonsense that I had made up, believed, and then used to nearly destroy myself. It's really a shock to be stripped 'down to gears and the wires' that thoroughly. And to have no idea what to do next.All the people on here who are spiritual but not religious.What has helped you on your path?
Fortunately, there are people in this world who are willing to help other people when that happens to them, and I found some of those people. And slowly, and patiently, they helped me rebuild myself and my grasp of reality, and a sense of value and meaning in it all that I had never had before. This time based on honesty, and humility, and the 'wisdom of not knowing'.
-A very good and necessary psychologist.
-Eight years as an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
-Several years participating in a very good Bible debate/discussion group (at a Lutheran church).
-Several sober friends that have remained friends for 30 years.
-Several 'normal' friends that have been my friends for even longer.
The real answer to your question is this: I found "God" in the people around me, not in any church or any religion. And I was healed and saved from myself, in the most profound way, as a result.
Same for me, minus "good speakers". I prefer books.
Same here
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Lots of time in nature and my nose in books.
RF as well, being a diverse community willing to discuss and debate. I've learned much and evolved during my time here.
RF as well, being a diverse community willing to discuss and debate. I've learned much and evolved during my time here.