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on one hand, I think spiritual strength is your ability to not sway or be influenced by people forcing ideas on you
on the other i also think this may just be an argument of semantics
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Originally Posted by Seeds&Stems
after another opie binge, I'm happy to be able to shit also.. six fucking plunges it took to go down, I mean jesus, some got on my socks. It was like "Go down please god make it go down please ill never steal from work again oh shit above the rim...please god i'll stop pissing in the neighbors pool.....fuck its getting on my sock.
Oh werd....I thought you were asking questions..... I usually don't answer questions with questions. Maybe I'll consider some of these things while at work today, and maybe just have some better answers to tag on as well.
spiritual strength, like many things, cannot be removed from self-confidence born of integrity. it always comes down to integrity for me. spiritual strength without integrity is weakness, harmful to the self and potentially harmful to others.
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The thing is... there's too much that is subjective. Then we try to define something like spirituality in combo with another highly subjective term, "strength" and we try to do it objectively. lol.
My 8 year old told me tonight (out of the blue) that there are many gods on many different worlds but then there is 'God'. LOL.... funny as hell. We don't go to church and only speak of God in general terms but kids can be deep... and it's funny how they just assume that of course they're right and they don't really need any validation of it...lol. I love kids.
i dont think strength is an overly objective term, not at all, its one of the few things that reason and logic can deduce into clarity, its atleast historically self-evident, here and there. i agree completely spirituality is a bloated worm infested word that would need to be split into atleast 50 words before any serious declarations could be made, i always wish for people to just operate under their own definitions, without trying to take the stance of an objective being, any-more-so than objectivity has made its way into their most unique and individual perspective
maybe spirituality, is a strength rooted in weakness?
is it weak to be wounded?in this world?!, and for the wound to make you stronger? or is that the opposite of spirituality.. the healing of a wound, as opposed to some grandiose tireless maintenance of the wound?
does strength lie only in numbers?
maybe the red question is..
whats weak about spirituality and whats strong about it? for you
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Last edited by Bodhisattva; 05-22-2009 at 07:04 AM.
I don't think spiritual strength could be (from my definition) contradictory to spirituality.
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