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Originally Posted by InJoy  I think this a very interesting point of view. You mention spirit and spiritual things in your post several times, and then say that you do not believe in God. What is Spirit by your definition? And for that matter, what is God by your definition? |
I have no really solid definitions for them; I just try to use them the way most people do. Whatever else a "God" does, he/she/it is some kind of consciousness that created me. In this sense there are two "God"s: my mother and my father.
I realize there are other concepts or definitions of "God," but in general I have different words to express them.
As for spirit, most people mean a sort of conglomeration of the qualities which make us "human": our creative drive, our deepest emotions, our subconscious drives and intentions. I don't believe in a spirit as something separate from the physical or something which can endure apart from our bodies. But I believe in the spirit in the above sense, and I like to live a "spiritual" life in the sense of something more profound than sex and television. For me, physical/mechanical/"mundane" things can hold deep spiritual value. When I do a Calculus problem I often feel as if I'm worshipping.