Atheists, since you have no afterlife, what is a spirit? how do you define spirituality, honest question?

Question

No ridicule or offense intended. How do you define spirit? and what is your spirituality?

Answer 1

lol thats like asking them whats the purpose of their existence

they will ponder and come up with materialistic answer

Answer 2

Definitions of spirit for you - take your pick.

a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings.
b. Incorporeal consciousness.
2. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death.
3. Spirit The Holy Spirit.
4. A supernatural being, as:
a. An angel or a demon.
b. A being inhabiting or embodying a particular place, object, or natural phenomenon.
c. A fairy or sprite.
5.
a. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings: Though unable to join us today, they are with us in spirit.
b. The essential nature of a person or group.
6. A person as characterized by a stated quality: He is a proud spirit.
7.
a. An inclination or tendency of a specified kind: Her actions show a generous spirit.
b. A causative, activating, or essential principle: The couple's engagement was announced in a joyous spirit.
8. spirits A mood or an emotional state: The guests were in high spirits. His sour spirits put a damper on the gathering.
9. A particular mood or an emotional state characterized by vigor and animation: sang with spirit.
10. Strong loyalty or dedication: team spirit.
11. The predominant mood of an occasion or a period: "The spirit of 1776 is not dead" Thomas Jefferson.
12. The actual though unstated sense or significance of something: the spirit of the law.
13. An alcohol solution of an essential or volatile substance. Often used in the plural with a singular verb.
14. spirits An alcoholic beverage, especially distilled liquor.

Answer 3

I'm not an atheist, but I do not believe in afterlife, either. Any society, including those of honeybees, wolves, bats, ants, apes, and humans follows some principles that support their society, and keeps it alive and running. Mutual assistance, protection, defense, and more ... Possibly, they all have their own religious ideas. We know only about ours - human ideas. That's what basically spirituality is.

As for the spirit - spirit is what your internal image tells you about yourself and your society around. When your body dies, the spirit disappears, like when you turn off your favorite Fox News TV Channel, the picture and sound gone. No more. The picture and the sound from there do not go to their own heaven or hell. Although they might. Then dead people spirits/souls might just as well go to sort of afterlife warehouse for recycling by newborn babies. This concept is very close to ideas of Hinduism, by the way. In your next life you may inherit a spirit of a dead lion, or a rat.

Therefore, next time you intend to shoot at a deer, or a wild turkey, think first. There might be a spirit of your dead Granma living in there. You wouldn't shoot at your Granma, would you?

Answer 4

I don't have a soul or 'spirit' and whatever spirituality means I would have to define it in real terms.

I can tell you about the wonder I feel when contemplating the real, rational, logical universe, the sense of awe... but it cant really be called religious.

Anymore than seeing a beautiful butterfly's wings will make me worship a fairy.

Answer 5

What spirit. We have no definition for something undefinable. We are just scratching the surface of the human brain. In time we will unravel its mysteries. Till then no spirit. Just marvelous us. As to an afterlife well in a sense we all have an afterlife almost eternal. Our atoms will again billions of years from now rejoin its brethren out there in the universe to continue a journey interrupted by our ephemeral existence. Hows that?

Answer 6

I do not believe in spirits, but I am deeply spiritual.

I define spirituality as such: Spirituality is a deep awareness and acceptance of one's viewed place in the universe as well as an understanding of the symbols by which the story of one's life is told.

For example, prior to returning to atheism (I was born as such and I will die as such, even if I took some detours along the way), I was a Christian -- I had visions, gifts, the whole nine-yards. These symbols were the way the story of my life at that time were told.

Since returning to atheism, however, my 'visions' and out-of-body experiences have all focused around the symbol of Fenris Wolf, because THAT is now the primary symbol by which the story of my life is told, along with other related wolf symbols (Grandfather Wolf, etc...)

Answer 7

I don't define either "spirit" or "spirituality." I've asked for such definitions many times, but received only vague answers. With no good definition, I'm proceeding on the assumption that there's no such thing.

BTW: I'm not the only one who's not gonna get an afterlife; neither are you. It's unreasonable to suppose that there's some part of us that will survive the death of our bodies -- there's no evidence for that.

Sorry. (But not very.)

Answer 8

I'd define spirituality as holding any faith in a supernatural occurrence. By supernatural, I mean something that can't be known to exist through empirical evidence...something faith based. To be faith, it can't be proved or known. If it is proved, or observable, it instantly stops being faith. Faith by definition is the belief in something that can't be known through the senses or empirical analysis. I am agnostic, leaning towards atheist. I do not think that there is anything supernatural in the world, but I don't know everything either. If I experience something, I experience something. If not....I don't.

If there is something, I am more inclined to believe in something undefined like the force (I am not being flip). I do not think that a God that judges humans, and treats all sin equally (with eternal damnation), is consistent with mankinds definition of goodness, love, or mercy.

Answer 9

I do believe in God and Ilove him however I am not attached to any religion because religions were created by human beings. I think our beliefs have produce hate wars and much more bad things. You see the catholic inquisition crusades the 9/11 with muslims. I dont think God likes all this stuff. The problem I have with religions is that they dont really teach you wehre you come from and where you are haeaded to. They take their word as the word of god and thats nasty.

Answer 10

dazzling question. i'm an atheist, and am also a pantheist, which signifies that i trust interior the organic international, the Universe, our dazzling planet, and that i stumble on my non secular course lies there. i stumble on connection with the Divine in Nature and all issues actual and authentic, issues that technology explains and issues that technology has yet to describe yet will sometime! i do no longer "worship" in my spirituality. i do no longer bend knee. i trust reverence somewhat, on the wholeness of elegance round us, the way it got here to be via medical means, via the superb skill of organic determination, and that i stumble on that my spirituality is guided through reality, that is a strategies extra astonishing and wondrous than any made-up non secular deity I have ever heard of! Regards, lady Morgana

Answer 11

Spirit in greek=> Pneyma
Pneyma=Air
Air-> The people at those times thought that because of a living being is breathing so the breath is his life.
So spirit is nothing but air .... nonsense.......
Lol it's so simple there is no spirit , only nerves and brain.
Thats the spirit. Without them you understand nothing and feel nothing. Sorry for breaking your bubbles .
Truly i would like those things to be truth but there is no afterlife and you must learn to live the day.