Knot My Line

I had a very good friend, Susie, that frequently said, “I am so spiritual!”.

Because she was such a good friend and I don’t want to challenge her, I never commented.  But because I admire much about her I would really like to understand this spiritual crap.  So I looked on the web.

What do people mean when they say they are spiritual?   Did you read that?  There in the second sentence it says “perceived eternal verities“.  Allow me to paraphrase that, “imagined eternal truths”.

How in a small town in Michigan does that relate to me?  I am trying to understand, but it still sounds like crap to me.  It sounds as if they are saying that spirituality is “what each of us imagines to be the eternal truth”.   Well that is only more gibberish that I can’t put my arms around.

Here are three more definitions for spiritual and for me they also reek of crap.   There are lots more, but they are all very similar.

religious: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; “religious texts”; “a member of a religious order”; “lords temporal and spiritual”; “spiritual leaders”; “spiritual songs”

concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; “a spiritual approach to life”; “spiritual fulfillment”; “spiritual values”; “unearthly love”

lacking material body or form or substance; “spiritual beings”; “the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm”

Religious? Well to me that does not connote anything good or of value.  Religion is the most horrible, despicable and evil plague that has ever affected humans.  If spirituality has anything to do with religion, then I don’t care much for it.

The soul?  The spirit?  More religious concepts that has no basis in reality.  Mysticism, smoke, and mirrors used to deceive and mislead people and give power to those that have no other way to obtain it.

So the web has not been much of a help to me, except to turn me off of the concept.  So maybe I have to put my own definition on the term and what I  hope Susie meant.

I hope that she meant that she was emotionally moved in a positive way when she saw the wonders of nature or that she felt a intense closeness and bond with someone she liked and admired.  In that case, I understand what she meant.  But all of that other stuff is still crap to me.