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Transcendentalist, panendeist, Hedgewitch, Unitarian Universalist, anarcho-socialist. -------------- When I talk about God, I mean something like the Tao, Brahman or Great Spirit; not the Judeo-Christian deity Yahweh. When I talk about spirituality, I mean a lifelong journey of seeking a connection to one's own deepest essence of being, and the feelings of awe, oneness and/or peace associated with that; not anti-intellectualism. When I talk about socialism, I mean something like democratic socialism, a bottom-up system based on compassion, equality and human rights; not Communist Russia. When I talk about anarchism, I mean a system of direct democracy, free association and common law; not chaos and reckless disregard for others. -------------- Nature is my cathedral, cannabis is my communion, humanity is my family, love is my religion, God is my true identity. If you're reading this profile, give yourself a hug from me. Let's make peace on Earth.
R&S community, can I give you a hug and a haiku?
I just wanna say, I love you beautiful, crazy people. You guys are awesome. And I wrote you poem, to help you in your battle to the death: (*ahem*)
all myth is trying
to tell us one thing: f***in’
magnets, how they work.
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWhat if a divine creator exists, but doesn't care if you believe in him/her/it or what spiritual label you use for yourself?
What if the golden rule is that creator's bottom line, end of story?
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoIs art a portal to another dimension?
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWhat if waking life is the dream, and the experiences our minds have while our bodies sleep at night...?
...are the real reality?
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWould you go to a church whose saints included Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers and Carl Sagan?
I'm starting the Holy Church of PBS (belief in god is totally optional). Anybody wanna join?
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoSpiritually speaking, do you ever swing on the swings at night and pretend you are trying to fly to the moon?
BQ: Do you feel the goddess's laughter in your belly when you do that?
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoAre all atheists also free thinkers, and can only atheists think freely?
Do you think it is really fair to use the term "free thinker" as a synonym for atheist, or is that a false designation that should only be applied to individuals and not ideologies?
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWould you agree that fundamentalism is a style of thinking and not a particular religious movement?
How would you further define fundamentalism within that broader context? And is it possible for someone who has no religion to practice fundamentalist-style thinking?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhy don't we send Dennis Rodman to Syria?
I feel like we should let Ambassador The Worm have a crack at this before we start dropping bombs. What say ye?
5 AnswersPolitics8 years agoWhy do conservatives assume liberals support everything Obama does?
First, before you guys start crying "where is the liberal outrage over Syria?", let me make something perfectly clear:
I am against going into Syria.
I am as against going into Syria as I was Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else we've invaded in the past decade.
I will continue to speak out against war and attend anti-war protests no matter who is president.
And while I'm clearing things up, let me also say that I am against government spying, prosecuting whistleblowers, the police state, and a long laundry list of other things Obama is doing. The difference between you and me is that I have always been against these things, whereas most of you are only against them now that Obama is president.
So my question is, are you actually paying attention to what's going on, or do you just assume that if conservatives are against something (now, because you hate Obama, even though you were for it under Bush), that means liberals automatically love it?
And would you please stop doing that? Thanks.
13 AnswersPolitics8 years agoMormons, I took Moroni's challenge and the Holy Ghost told me that the Book of Mormon is not true, and...?
...that the LDS church is not right for me.
How come Moroni only keeps his promise to some people?
15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhat is the point of spelling Obama's name with a zero instead of an O?
Is this clever? How long did it take conservatives to think it up?
12 AnswersPolitics8 years agoIf God making his/her existence unequivocally known would violate free will, why was Satan able to rebel?
According to some of the Christians who answered this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201303... God doesn't make her/his existence unequivocally known to all because s/he doesn't want to force people to love her/him.
But Satan and the other demons presumably have no doubt that God exists, and yet they were still able to choose rebellion rather than worship. Clearly, knowing God exists did not violate their free will to choose whether or not to love her/him.
So how does this "it violates free will" argument work?
13 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhy do humans care so much about what color people are, when...?
...in the rest of the animal world color variation is extremely common and means nothing at all?
For example, when my cat had kittens, there were three different fur colors in the one litter (two black, one white, and two orange & black striped). If what color you are is so important, why didn't my cats hate each other?
8 AnswersPolitics8 years agoDid you know there are people advocating SOCIALISM on this site? Someone alert Senator McCarthy!?
Email I just received from a conservative poster who is thinks the Cold War is still going on:
Hello scribblo (scribblo),
You have received a message from another user!
From: [name]
Subject: you have been blocked!
Message: reason: advocating in favor of socialism
"Who is this socialist who also happens to be named Obama that everyone keeps talking about? Geez, I wish we HAD elected that guy"
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LOLOL! Thanks for informing me, dude.
Any other dirty pinkos wanna get blocked? Reply here!
Wanna help take over the government? Meet tonight under the Brooklyn Bridge at nine pm. Password is "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Apologies to the Whitest Kids U Know).
9 AnswersPolitics8 years agoPoll: would you have voted third-party if we had a better electoral system?
I would like to know how many people here would have voted for the Green, Socialist, Libertarian or other "third-party" candidates if we had a better system where those parties were not marginalized and actually had a fair chance of winning.
If so, who would you have voted for?
Please also answer if you actually DID vote for one of those candidates in the 2012 election.
Thanks!
22 AnswersPolitics8 years agoMormons: coffee-flavored lip balm... ok or not?
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years ago