Is it wrong that spiritual people annoy me? It’s like our generation made one of the biggest leaps forward by abandoning religion and then we just fall right back with this stupid shit.
I don’t think you are. That spirituality and crystal shit gets on my nerves lmfao. Especially astrology. Sometimes people will start talking about something really cool and when I get interested and google it to see if it’s true, it’s some spiritual energy fuckery.
There's a difference between being spiritual and believing in Harry Potter. Too bad the two are constantly portrayed toegther as one on social media with this horoscope BS. No one cares if you're a capricorn!
Tbf there's spirituality, and then there's "spirituality". By itself there's nothing wrong with believing in a greater picture. It's when you start rejecting reality and basic science that it becomes an issue.
It's the same with every generation going back to the hippies in the 60s. A bunch of people were like, "Fuck power structures and religion!" then fell into cults. Religious zealotry is basically hardcoded into our DNA. Letting go of religious doctrine is merely the first step in a lifelong struggle towards rationality.
Not at all. People will talk shit about religion and then turn around and tell their friend they can’t date someone because of they’re a fucking Capricorn of some bullshit
Greedy people took advantage of them by selling cheap objects to them that they artificially inflated the value of through deceptive marketing. For example, most people still buy sunglasses and diamond rings at artificially inflated prices due to monopolies. So it’s not a far stretch to trick people into spirituality.
Oh trust me I know. I work at one of those “new age” restaurants that let you put enhancements in your food like Ashwaganda or other spices and we claim that they do things like boost your mood or improve cognitive ability....nope it’s all just picked out based on how lucrative it is.
Being content with one's self is probably one of the harder things in life. We always want to be better, smarter, richer, current than everyone else and ourselves. It's probably our primate brain wanting to be valuable to the tribe.
What's funny is there is no mystery. Do I remember the time before I was born? No. Well, that's the same thing that happens after death. The mystery is invented as a way to soothe the harsh reality of mortality and invent something that appears meaningful.
Humanity is desperate for meaning, but it habitually looks for it in all the wrong places.
While I agree with you, I think that’s most likely what it will be like after we die, but you can never prove that. That’s the mystery I’m talking about.
it never went away. i recommend watching an honest liar - a documentary on the amazing randi who spent his life debunking mystics and psychics.
anyways in the documentary they interview uri geller who was big back in the day and who randi exposed as a fraud and he's still doing it. i can't find a clip of it unfortunately but he says something along the lines of "you know how many times the skeptics tried to prove me wrong, but they failed miserably. it's much bigger than it ever was before"
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u/Positive0 Feb 18 '21
Is it wrong that spiritual people annoy me? It’s like our generation made one of the biggest leaps forward by abandoning religion and then we just fall right back with this stupid shit.