GUESTBREAKER: You’re “Spiritual, But Not Religious.”
Because there’s a difference?
You laugh disdainfully at Christians and Mormons and anyone into “the whole Jesus thing”, but give me a stone-faced look when I dare to suggest that anyone who believes in pagan-hippie-witch doctor-God is just as bad. Then you go off about how you “revere life” with an almost religious zeal, you blame a hostile situation as “too much bad energy in here, man” and you entertain notions that when we die, there’s anything but the calm, non-conscious indifference of being at rest in the universe. You probably have a tattoo of a Chinese or Sanskrit character for “love” or “wisdom” or “faith” or some b.s., but only in Chinese or Sanskrit because, hey, “those Easterners are so much more in touch with spirituality than us.” You roll your eyes when I bring up Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens because they’re just cold-hearted assholes who don’t respect others’ beliefs. You tell me I need a little more “magic” in my life. Oh yeah, and you cry when I suggest the only thing that comes from the heart is a whole lot of blood-pumpin’, and that love, like it or not, still emanates from the brain. “My GOD,” you finally cry out, ”what is WRONG with you?”
Face it, either you’re a believer or you’re not, and one belief is no better, or kookier, than the rest.
A Guest Dealbreaker written by Casimir.
…because, indeed, if you live the sacred & despise the ordinary, as my wonderful roommate and Lin-Chi both have said, you are still bobbing in an ocean of delusion.
