Enough coomshit threads, let's dedicate a space to our spiritual practices. Cut off the porn, focus on your internal learning and cultivate your spiritual growth. Post your faith and practices below, do not proselytize and try to keep it civilized, please.
/Religion9k/
Dylan Thomas
Jose Sanchez
I'm a severely lapsed Catholic, but I want to get back into it. Coomershit is one of the primary reasons it's so hard to do that. After a lifetime of this garbage it's pretty impossible to escape. Most of the people offering advice on the topic aren't close to the level that I'm at. They just don't get it. Even religious, informed normalfags are still normalfags unfortunately
James Hall
Reading, practicing and listening to constructive music (classical, medieval or ancient) is a better therapy than anyone else can offer you. Pick up the biographies of the saints, read about Christian mystics, you can also try pagan philisophers before christianity and/or buddhists and hinduists because they deal with detachment moreso than catholics.
Joseph Green
I believe religion is first and foremost a tool used by rulers to control peasants, and said peasants use religion to cope with pain. I would like to believe there's some magical man in the sky that would make it all worth it, but seeing the world as it is with the savagery and cruelty that suffering that exists every minute of every day somewhere on this giant turd in space, only ever continuing to spiral downward into the hellscape we're currently in, and feeling like I'm nearing the end of my life and having found nothing to live for - no happiness, no partner, no - I am unable to believe in such nonsense anymore. I used to wish I had a reset button on life, but now I'd rather not play this shit game again that was rigged from the start. There is no spirit here, and nothing is special. You can say I'm pessimistic and my perspective is sad - I don't care, I'm just being realistic. I've called to God on several occasions, and there was never an answer. Some people are lucky, others are not, just as there being someone for everyone is bullshit, like so many other lies we're told. All just cope to make you stick around longer.
Kevin Mitchell
>I believe religion is first and foremost a tool used by rulers to control peasants
That would contradict all the hermits who sought truth by secluding away from society
Benjamin Myers
I don't think the truth of existence is to be found in religion
If anything, Taoism and some sects of Mahayana Buddhism got it right, the "that-ness" of reality is impossible to describe
What can a bird understand about a microchip? I think it's the same thing for human beings and the nature of being
Mason Kelly
That's the point of mysticism
Connor Williams
Personally I practice both the religious obligations of polnsesian polytheism and the philosophical inquiry that Taoism postulates.
Anthony Davis
>Dismantles religion in you're path
Ryan Brown
Mysticism is still surrounded by a religious framework, which is useless imo. There is nothing to attain, just be.
Landon Green
>"Birth is not the beginning of life - only an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of that awareness."
Kayden Roberts
Based and only good thread on this shit board.
I wish I could say I was Orthodox, but at best I'm Gnostic. I honestly, and truly do hope, with all my heart that the Orthodox are right.
But I just can't accept it.
That said, you're still better of being Orthodox, even if it isn't true, than a reddit tier faggot like me, if you can be.
Ian James
i am a platonist lapsing from their popular religion. I had the fortune of meeting some traditionalists from the ancient pre-christian roman tradition and saw in them the antithesis of what I stand for. Roman stoics simply do not care about the transcendent reality and hold in contempt everybody with a religious mindset. Thus I am now thinking of going back to Hellenism, the belief that shaped platonism.
Andrew Perez
>"The Soul exists in revolution around God to whom it clings in love, holding itself to the utmost of its power near to Him as the Being on which all depends; and since it cannot coincide with God it circles about Him." - The Second Ennead, Plotinus
Samuel Scott
>Aw, dude my religion's so old. You don't even know. Heard of Plato? Yeah, we're pals.
Never thought I'd meet a religious hipster. Maybe next year you can go full Babylonian and make offerings to Marduk.
Jordan Nelson
There is no religious hipsterism. Catholic and Orthodox theology are founded on platonism and Aristotle's teachings.
Robert Lee
Don't bash yourself for not being a larper and falling for a false teaching. Gnosticism is one of the few belief systems worth a shit.
Connor Sanders
I'm a really bad Mormon, in that I smoke, drink (coffee and alcohol and would probably even drink tea), do drugs and masturbate a lot. But I'm thinking of going back, the girls there are generally really cute and one kept smiling at me whenever I'd go to church, her dad even introduced her to me.
If I wasn't a hopeless drug-addled, alcoholic coomer it'd be so worth it, but giving up most of my hobbies for just the best wife is a tough choice, especially since I'd need to not cum until I was married which could be a long way down the track. On the spiritual side, I'll admit to some weird shit happening when I used to go to church, some rather inexplicable stuff desu so there's something otherworldly at least about the Mormons. There's still a lot of stuff I want to do in life and being a Mormon limits that a lot, but a good Mormon girl might be worth. I was thinking of getting my baptism annulled, going HAM for the next few years and then coming back to the church after seeing and doing some shit, but I'm worried by the time I do that I'd be too old for the good Mormon girls and will only end up with a convert.
Tyler Butler
>learning about your spiritual path is... le hipsterism!
Go back
Gavin Williams
Best thread in the log oregano
Jayden Jenkins
>Post your faith and practices below
K
Aaron Lee
Also this
>Verification not required
Bentley Garcia
>Best thread in the log oregano
I can make it better
Ayden Bennett
>spirituality gibberish makes me a special boy
You go back to /x/, schizoid.
Daniel Jones
>spirituality gibberish
if this isn't bait you're actually fucking retarded