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Spirituality?
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Is there a spirituality based just on love? I'm trying to explore options because I'm kinda lost without a belief system and I don't want one based on a god...just on love.

EDIT--What I mean is like with Christianity...When I was in middle school I saw the love and faith and envied people for that, so I tried. But I don't believe in God...But I do believe in love. Loving people, people needing love, love being strong...

I don't really want a title...I just am trying to put more structure to what I believe...

Post edited at 8:07 pm on Nov. 8, 2009 by wanderingxaimless

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How do you define love?

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You don't have to have a set title for your beliefs, you know.

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Spirituality is what you make it.

You can relate it to love, death, evil, good.

Whatever.

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spirituality can be based on whatever you want

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I think they're called hippies

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if love is the one thing you really belive in, then love is god.
i dont really belive in god but he/it/whatever is whatever you need it to be.

Post edited at 8:06 pm on Nov. 8, 2009 by majorwolf

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Quote: from majorwolf at 8:06 pm on Nov. 8, 2009

if love is the one thing you really belive in, then love is god.
i dont really belive in god but he/it/whatever is whatever you need it to be.

no, love is my deity.

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Quote: from wanderingxaimless at 8:09 pm on Nov. 8, 2009

Quote: from majorwolf at 8:06 pm on Nov. 8, 2009

if love is the one thing you really belive in, then love is god.  
 i dont really belive in god but he/it/whatever is whatever you need it to be.

no, love is my deity.



thats kinda what i meant

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So you want to love others, be loved, and spread love. That's it.

A Christian, possibly other religions, is going to ask how can you love, be loved, and spread love without God. That's why I ask how are you going to define love. For many religions, God is love, but because you don't believe in God, you must define love in another sense.


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Quote: from Sea Ghost at 8:19 pm on Nov. 8, 2009

So you want to love others, be loved, and spread love. That's it.

A Christian, possibly other religions, is going to ask how can you love, be loved, and spread love without God. That's why I ask how are you going to define love. For many religions, God is love, but because you don't believe in God, you must define love in another sense.


I define love as the goodness in people and something we need. As the emotion, the feeling. I define it in the sense that it's a strong feeling.

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So it's a strong feeling of goodness in people and is universally needed.

I'm not going to analyze your definition, because you are trying to only define your beliefs and values. But the next question you would have to ask yourself, and this is still assuming that you want to love, be loved, and spread loved, is how are you going to do this?


You can't really worship love, you can't really use it to define who you are, you can't really base all of your moral decisions on it either. So, as an aspect of something you believe in, I think it's great. But that's really as far as you can go with it.


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Quote: from Sea Ghost at 8:29 pm on Nov. 8, 2009

So it's a strong feeling of goodness in people and is universally needed.

I'm not going to analyze your definition, because you are trying to only define your beliefs and values. But the next question you would have to ask yourself, and this is still assuming that you want to love, be loved, and spread loved, is how are you going to do this?

 
You can't really worship love, you can't really use it to define who you are, you can't really base all of your moral decisions on it either. So, as an aspect of something you believe in, I think it's great. But that's really as far as you can go with it.


Thanks for the responses. I'm thinking a lot now =)

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