I like looking.

Like when I look at myself from my cat's point of view.  Or my Cabin in the Mists from a stranger's point of view.  Or the day's date from another calender's point of view.

So, here we go, with another point of view.

Here is a satellite picture of the birthplace of a lot of WCers belief systems.

Look at it.  No borders at all.  No divisions.  The sky is part of the land is part of the waters...

Gold is too ostentatious, and copper is too utilitarian, so is silver the most spiritually fashionable metal?

A lady friend of mine in the jewellery business told me that silver crosses and anhks and other common religious patterns always sell better than gold versions of the same design. She believes it’s because gold is not spiritually fashionable, and never has been (my wife thinks it’s because more clothing options happen to match with silver than gold). It could also be that silver is much cheaper than gold…  I would like to explore the idea of a spiritually fashionable metals.

Things have changed over the years, lets look back on the dawn of man and the fashion of wearing religious iconography.

This is from a Catholic Website. How do you feel about the two lists - corporal and spiritual? Would you be able to follow them  if you were not catholic.

The traditional enumeration of the corporal works of mercy is as follows:

Ephesians 4:5  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

God says there is only one baptism and so many baptize with water and others claim its only spiritual baptism. That being the case if we believe God then it will either have to water baptism or it will have to be only spiritual baptism.

I have been struggling with these two concepts.

I think someone can be very well educated but I would not always refer to them as an intellectual.

There are people that I have known who are not well educated formally but are well read and have self-studied and fall into the category of intellectual.

I think that intellectuals look beyond the educated word in their reasoning and their thinking.

There are people that have many degrees but are still hidden within a "box".

Across from the mountains,

Talking about spiritual attainment is hard because we lack a proper of definition of the word "spiritual".

Nowadays a lot of practices are put under the umbrella of spirituality ranging from self deprivation to taking drugs.

However in this short post we should hope to clear the word "attainment".

As human beings and we are always operating on faith since we never know what the future has in store for us.
 
When we pressed the elevator button we wait because we have faith it will come. Based on this statement we should make a distinction between three kinds of faith: below reason, within reason and above reason.
 
The usual connotation of the word refers to the first kind of faith: below reason, meaning that we’ve been told something and we believe it without verifying it. This is the religious approach to faith.
 

Hey, I'm new and wanted to start off with a quick question.

Do you think spiritual identity is something pretty stable (consistent) or something that's always changing?

Have you always identified your religon the same throughout your life, or have you gone through a series of changes to your viewpoint? 

If you have changed your religious views, what factors have contributed to that change?

Just interested in getting to know people and getting a discussion going :)

mystical - having some secret meaning; beyond human understanding; mysterious; spritually symbolic

spiritual- supernatural; of the spirit or soul;caring much for things of the spirit or soul.

Both of these things sound the same to me but posters talk as if they are different.

Anybody want to clarify?