"I don’t love less and I don’t love differently than someone who experiences the exact same feelings but ascribes them to a different explanation."
I certainly wouldn't be one to say otherwise. ;) My only point was that I feel it's important to allow people to interpret their own truths in their own way.
I don't think that finding any given phenomena explicable or inexplicable makes it any more or less important, or valid.
I do think that there are an incomprehensible bounty of things we do not yet understand... and perhaps there are reasons for feeling emotions and connections beyond brain activity and biochemicals that we haven't discovered as of yet.
And how someone chooses to negotiate the undiscovered I think, is a statement of the individual, and no less valid for its differences from my own outlook.
I also think 'spiritual' has become a highly subjective word. For me, I use it to refer to outlooks and experiences that touch a part of me that I know is there, but have yet to truly comprehend.
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Date: 2009-03-02 03:55 am (UTC)I certainly wouldn't be one to say otherwise. ;) My only point was that I feel it's important to allow people to interpret their own truths in their own way.
I don't think that finding any given phenomena explicable or inexplicable makes it any more or less important, or valid.
I do think that there are an incomprehensible bounty of things we do not yet understand... and perhaps there are reasons for feeling emotions and connections beyond brain activity and biochemicals that we haven't discovered as of yet.
And how someone chooses to negotiate the undiscovered I think, is a statement of the individual, and no less valid for its differences from my own outlook.
I also think 'spiritual' has become a highly subjective word. For me, I use it to refer to outlooks and experiences that touch a part of me that I know is there, but have yet to truly comprehend.