More spiritually evolved?

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I don't believe in supernatural.
I believe everything that is, is natural. but I know there is more to the natural world than we are capable of knowing or perceiving.
We evolved to have only the senses we need to survive so there is a lot out there that we cannot know or understand.
Maybe the universe is intelligent and conscious. maybe it is part of a larger system with conscious intelligence and memory.
More than 13 billion years after the creation of the universe, tiny little creatures, made out of the stuff of the universe, on a tiny little planet, evolved with the conscious ability to look at the universe and understand some of it's mysteries.
It's like a small part of the universe has become conscious of itself.
Where did that come from? How can something exist in the microcosm if it doesn't exist in the macrocosm.
I don't know what this has to do with angels or spiritual beliefs, but I think there's a connection somewhere and I do believe there is more out there than what I "see".

I answered Yes. Because I have allways been against the thought of anything "spirit"-like. It could only be a result of our neurology and imagination, but I have seen things, that has made think again.
I have no religious belief and I am absolutely against the thought of anything supernatural.

What I do think is, that it would be very arrogant to assume, that "we" have discovered the full truth about the entire reality in this world.
"Spirits" may be a product of our indeed powerful imagination, but it may as well be a natural layer of existence.

I'm not spiritual at all. I'm pretty open minded and listen to people talk about their beliefs, superstition or any weird stuff with interest. But to get me to believe in anything is impossible. My husband is even more mundane than I am. Sometimes I talk about illogical stuff just to provoke him. I don't think anyone in my family have the ability to be spiritual. My parents like food, money, status and material stuff. To imagine them being spiritual and caring about meaning of life or the bigger questions is just funny. DH's parents go to a church but I have never heard them talk about anything other than ordinary boring life.

Yeah, no.

46% answered 'yes' to believing in spirits.

46% still believe in superstitious rubbish which should've died out with the advent of the 20th century. Don't expect me to feign 'respect' for this twaddle, please. This is the sort of thinking which led to women being drowned as witches in the middle ages.

Edit: If the middle ages is too long ago, then read the responses in WelcomeToHolland's "It's Official..." thread. You can see how the Jesus freaks think today, right here.

Utter baffling and depressing me that autistic people buy into this grandiose, self-serving nonsense as much as anyone else does.

So what do you have to say about believing that God provides angels on earth for you? I'm interested in how people genuinely become this narcisstic.

I'm self-centred, but this level of egotism is beyond me. Imagine thinking that there are angels on earth just for you, when billions of others are suffering and dying. Imagine being that egotistical. Just imagine it. I can't.

@Booyakasha - Then move this thread to the PPR forum, where I never go to.