Are you spiritual?

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I find that I'm very interested, in spiritual matters, so I don't really believe the idea, that most aspies are atheists. I've noticed many in here, are interested in the paranormal.

I'm nonreligious. I do not believe in a concept of god, an afterlife, or paranormal activities/the supernatural.

I'm not religious. Doesn't mean I don't believe, but I don't worship any particular god.

I believe in some sort of afterlife, ghosts, energy and all that.

I believe that Jesus Christ is our saviour. BTW, I believe that most other Auties are Christian/Jewish/Muslim/Hindu etc. Most folks, autie or not, believe in some type of higher power, including Communists because they believe that Stalin is a higher power. (LOL) Ain't nothing wrong with being atheist or any other religion. It's between you and God.

I do not believe in gods or a higher power. However, I feel there is the possibility of beings that we cannot sense with our senses and/or technology. I also believe in the possibility of extraterristals.

I say this with the utmost respect to all organized religions here, but I don't officially belong to any (although I am/was a confirmed Catholic) b/c while they have excellent common ground (compassion, giving, etc.) which I try to follow they tend to exclude each other which can cause problems. So I try to incorporate all of it. I have thought about it a lot and do believe in a higher power, afterlife and destination, but here's something I haven't worked out yet: a higher power is one possible way in which the universe may have come into existence and one reason why we're all here but how did the higher power come into existence? Or has It always existed and how is that possible? Enough of that b/c my brain hurts... I also am fascinated with the paranormal

I am a Christian, but certianly not the narrow minded way that most people think of that religion - I find that it works quite well for me, but I have people I like to be around that are Buddist, Wiccan, you name it - when I had to have surgery I said that I had every major world religion praying for me . . .

As I see it, all cultures have created some sort of religion - and all the religions say roughly the same thing - that is 'Be nice to each other - do things for other people that you would want them to do to you' - therefore there must be something to the whole thing . . .

I find the evolution/creationism debate to be one of the best examples of NT irrationality - if you believe in a God like I do evolution simply describes the way He created the world - that is all . . . creationism makes me laugh . . .

I think that the spiritual world, and all supernatural activity, is going on around us all the time and that there are rules that govern it just like there are rules that govern the world we live in - the problem is that we just don't know the rules yet . . .
I also love cryptozoology, which always seems to get thrown in with supernatural stuff - though it isn't really realted . . .

I feel pretty bitter and resentful toward God, if he does exist

organised religion- no, though i am currently reading the new testament to see what it has to say

'spirituality', if thats what you want to call it, yes. I think that there is much more to the world than what we experience through our five senses, and i KNOW that telepathy exists, ie i have had one experience that was definitely telepathic, and a few that were most probably telepathic

I do not believe in God (or Gods) simply because there isn't the slightest shred of evidence to even suggest the existance of a "Higher Power", much less prove it.

That having been said I've personally experienced things that defy explanition. "Supernatural" isn't a good term for it because that implies that somehow these events are divorced from nature. I simply say that I can't explain them.

Any event (or technology) that we can't understand can appear "supernatural" or "magic". But that doesn't mean that they are.

Imagine taking any common piece of technology back in time and demonstrating it to someone. For example, if I went to Toys R Us, bought a Gameboy and someone traveled back to medieval England and showed it around, I'd likely be burned at the stake for practicing "witchcraft".

So there are things in this world that are way beyond any comprehension, now. But a thousand years from now the answers may be known. Or not. I think (and hope) that there are things about the universe we will never understand. Mystery is fun.

As far as exterrestial life goes, it's a mathematical certainty given the number of stars and planets in our universe. But the distances involved mean we may never make contact with life from another planet.

I believe that all things are "one," at their core. That the universe is all connected, in both a physical and spiritual sense.

I do believe in ghosts, in the sense that I believe there are things we do not understand. Be they spirits or simply residues of energy, I do not know. All I know is that they do exist, because I've seen them and felt them.

I am also quite interested in mythologies, cryptozoology, and the supernatural.

I'm a Christian.

Mich

As fat as ET life goes, I believe in it. Anyone that think's we're alone in a vast space this size hasn't properley thought it over.

Even the smallest scrap of bacteria out of earth is ET life.

Anyway I've seen 2 UFO's, one could have been a trick with light but the other was definitley not a star, meteorite, plane or satelite.

I'm sort of spiritual. I think the law of entropy (energy can change form, but cannot be created nor destroyed) tells us that there must be some kind of afterlife. What is the difference between a dead body and living body? The living body has some sort of energy (some people would call it a soul) and because we know energy cannot be destroyed, it must go somewhere after death. As far as there being a god, I kinda doubt it for a few reasons:

1) Supposedly in Bibilical times, all this amazing stuff was happening. So why do we only have this one collection of that history (the Bible)? I can't believe that no other writer at the time felt like making a record of this amazing stuff.

2) There's just way too many logic problems. If I'm bad I'll go to hell. But since God is all-knowing, he must know what I'm going to do before I do it. That means I have no free-will (all my actions have already been determined) So how could a good god punish me when I had no choice?

3)This is an old one, but could God make a boulder so heavy that even he can't lift it? If you say yes, then that means God's not all powerful because he can't lift the boulder. If you say no, then god's not all powerful because he can't create such a boulder.

I really think we created god just as a consequence of the way our brains work. We tend to view things in terms of cause and effect. Us and everything around us must have been caused by something, so that something must be God. This argument is fallacious - just because we don't know what caused us doesn't mean that God did. That's like seeing an object in the sky and assuming it's aliens just because you don't know what it is.

Having said all that, there certainly are things we don't know though, since our intelligence is limited. Take a fly for example. A fly has no concept of anything outside it's own world. No sense of the English language, no concept of mathematics, etc. But we know these things exist, because we're much much smarter. So it could be that we just can't see the answer because our brain power is limited.