I don't require the belief that humans are anything special to be happy with myself.
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I don't require the belief that humans are anything special to be happy with myself.
That's a pretty wild generalization. I have no need for religion.
Which is why I included spirituality in there, which is a term that doesn't necessarily mean religion. It can mean self actualization, mastery, the need to love others, commune with nature, whatever makes you feel complete.
Animals don't do this.
I didn't see "the need to love others" as "spirituality" but ok.
You're even slower than my edits.
Well yeah it does sound oxymoronic, typical new-agey kind of thing.
Yeah, if you expand the definition that far, the word itself almost becomes meaningless.
Well to me spiritual refers to the supernatural, as in Spirits, and does not apply to secularism or atheism. So yeah, stretch that word to all random nice things, and it doesn't mean anything.
You mean I'm faster? Since I obviously quoted you before you edited.
I disagree. If you read the section in question, you will see that the definition certainly does not fit all random nice things. It doesn't necessarily even include nice things, or the stipulation that you are nice to others. Just an overall desire to feel a connection with something greater than yourself, be it society, nature, the universe, ect.
Unless you're Dr. Doolittle I don't see how you can state this with any certainty. Outside of our ability to cause vast changes to the global environment there's not a helluva lot different between us and other animals: tool use, language, emotions, engineering feats, etc. I don't see why it isn't possible that some animals have a sense of spirituality or an "interior life."
If you make spirituality to basically mean being fascinated by anything, the word is meaningless. It's like saying a hobby is something you do, like driving your car or going to work.
I get a huge spiritual boner pwning n00bs in Counter-Strike.
People still play Counterstrike?
I'll pretend I didn't read that.
It's what separates us from the gorilla.
Hey, I didn't mean offense, I'm just surprised. I used to like CS, but it seems like so long ago and there have been so many new games released since. I didn't think the game would be attractive to new players anymore.
