A good point, put as offensively as possible, loses it's luster.
I believe that spirituality has a place, but that spirituality is pointed toward more by Goedel Escher Bach than the Bible, or the Koran, who's description of God is so filled with contradiction (a just loving God that will burn you for eternity no matter how you lived your life, if you don't mouth certain words?!), I'm not really sure what people even mean when they say "I believe in God."
Spirituality in practice, to me, means meditation. And meditation is a wonderful exercise in culling down one's experience to an absolute minimum. If your mind is an organic computer, then meditation is an intentional starving of input. This extreme, austere environment reveals details about the low-level operation of your mind that is fascinating to discover. Empirically, it's useful too, because you can view your experience with ever greater objectivity. And it's mostly inexplicable, in the way good spiritual experiences are. Highly recommended.
I believe that spirituality has a place, but that spirituality is pointed toward more by Goedel Escher Bach than the Bible, or the Koran, who's description of God is so filled with contradiction (a just loving God that will burn you for eternity no matter how you lived your life, if you don't mouth certain words?!), I'm not really sure what people even mean when they say "I believe in God."
Spirituality in practice, to me, means meditation. And meditation is a wonderful exercise in culling down one's experience to an absolute minimum. If your mind is an organic computer, then meditation is an intentional starving of input. This extreme, austere environment reveals details about the low-level operation of your mind that is fascinating to discover. Empirically, it's useful too, because you can view your experience with ever greater objectivity. And it's mostly inexplicable, in the way good spiritual experiences are. Highly recommended.