Ja daar heb je gelijk hoor, hoe mensen bij god en religies terecht komen is het moeilijke aan de hele zaak en daar durf ik me niet over uitspreken. Heb het enkel over mensen die reeds gelovig zijn, waarom ze dat zijn is me nog steeds een raadsel
Net als de liefde trouwens
dat ik het ervaar is duidelijk maar waarom? ... beats me :/
Denk dat ik daar een beroep doe op een vorm van het antropische principe. Dat we zonder liefde hier niet zouden zijn omdat niemand het leven dan iets waard zou vinden. Een geëvolueerde instinctieve conditionering die ervoor zorgt dat we onze polsen niet oversnijden. ^^
Maar dat zie ik voor goden niet opgaan aangezien een groot deel zonder hen voort kan.
Tweak > mijn gedacht over spiritualiteit (sorry voor het engels is gekopieerd van mijn blog)
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Just like in economics, all the ideas concerning religion will converge as well creating a unified whole. The system that will replace religion has already been birthed, spirituality. It will take a considerable amount of time and effort but as education increases and everybody gains access to the vast body of knowledge our civilization has built up through the ages, while also coming into contact, through globalization and new technologies like the internet, with the so called gods of all the other believers, religion will gradually but also automatically become a thing of the past. When the world gets smarter we will no longer be discussing whether god has a beard or not, what his stance might be on gay marriage or stem cells or why he doesn’t want us to eat pork chops.
Instead we will become spiritual people. The biggest change will be that we will no longer believe in a supervisor that cares for us personally or has something to say about how we live our lives, we will no longer claim to have all the answers. Nor will we think that we know how the world works. Unlike religion, spirituality is personal, you don’t subscribe to a corporate structure that tells you how you should live your life. The only drawback is that we will lose the communal feeling. There aren't that many people going to church anymore but perhaps there will be a need to set up "churches" that debate instead of preach. Churches that ask questions instead of answering them. This way people can still come together and feel connected. So to repeat for most people this will mean the end of active creating gods that care about us personally and what we are up to. If you lose that certainty, if you can no longer explain everything around you with "god created it for a reason", people might at last experience that feeling of wonder and amazement again. Suddenly they will have to question everything! Looking at a flower and thinking that god did a good job on that one or looking at a flower and truly wondering, just how it got there, how it got to be that way, what its purpose is and what its connection is with the creatures and the world around it, is, compared to religion, quite a difference in experience to say the least.
Spirituality itself has become a victim of time, its core message faded, an ancient cry from forgotten times. The ancient Greek philosophers would hate to see what a huge mess we have made. It pains me to think that they had a better picture of true reality than most people alive today. When you mention spirituality people will be more inclined to start talking about various manifestations of ancient spirituality than current updated spirituality, for it now comes in many forms; from new age healing to auras and positive energy to hundreds of ancient religions. It is quite unfortunate that after hundreds, even thousands of years of baggage, almost all religions have strayed so far from the core thought of spirituality.
The essence of spirituality is nothing more than each person’s quest for a clearer picture of reality and our place in it, how each person deals with his own meaning of life and questions like why we exist at all. Spirituality is, unlike most religions, in its truest form not incompatible with facts. It doesn’t provide you with any fables that conflict with the actual world. In fact it doesn’t really provide you with anything, it leaves all the work up to you. Many people might not care for spirituality, giving this wonderful topics no thought at all and they are perfectly free to do that. In a way you could say that their spirituality is grounded in hard realism. “Who cares why we are here or how we got to be this way, as long as I can see the next episode of my favourite tv show I’ll be more than happy.“ Who are we to say that that is a wrong way of life? It is my opinion that they are missing out on some truly wonderful and mindblowing experiences but they could be thinking the same about me.
Philosophy is the practical manifestation of spirituality and its evolution through time. Unlike religion it gets updated when we encounter new knowledge and information. Spirituality simply goes beyond the questions science can answer but whenever science fills in a new detail about reality we take that into account when we ponder the meaning of existence.
Many religions seem to imply that ethics are actually part of their copyrighted belief but that is simply false. Some crazy religious types might ask what will stop us from killing each other if we no longer believe in god? Personally I don’t see any connection between the two at all. What are they saying? That the only reason they aren’t killing anyone is because their god says they shouldn’t? Religious people kill just as much if not more than none religious people. Ethics are in no way related to religion. We had ethics before any of the major religions of today they just stole them and incorporated them into their books. EVERYONE* on this planet thinks killing people is bad regardless whether they believe in gods or not.
Everyone* besides some religious nutjobs, psychopaths and other mentally unstable people of course
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