Religion... And Its Meaning

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Originally Posted by LHX

why create the word g-o-d AND the word m-a-n then?

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to understand.

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Originally Posted by RAMESH

yo black what wu tracks u listening to these days?

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everything i got really. it depends what i'm in the mood for. right now(literally) i'm listening to hell razah, right before that k.priest, and before that ghost.

& u soldier what u bumping?

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Originally Posted by Charging Soldier

I named you five cultures.

Lakota Culture

Dakota Culture

Nakota Culture

Apache Culture

Ojibway Culture

Despite what you may believe, Natives don't all believe in the same things, but we do believe in God. We're not savages, and we're not devoid of religion. We have our own way of life.

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you have a religion...then you don't have a culture.

i must of been sitting here for quite a whille listening to nothing just stoned & still smoking

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Originally Posted by RAMESH

& u soldier what u bumping?

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I alwasy listen to RZA's birth of a prince album before I start class.

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Originally Posted by Black Man

to understand.

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thanks for clearing that up man

the children can sleep peacefully tonite

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Originally Posted by Black Man

you have a religion...then you don't have a culture.

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Cultures practice religions, your just being silly again. Are the lines between are culture and religion are so intertwined that it's our way of life and that's how he refer to it, i'm sure 5% can relate.....again. We've been though this shit before.

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Originally Posted by LHX

thanks for clearing that up man

the children can sleep peacefully tonite

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your welcome, and sleep tight...don't let the bed bugs bite.

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Originally Posted by Charging Soldier

Cultures practice religions, your just being silly again. Are the lines between are culture and religion are so intertwined that it's our way of life and that's how he refer to it, i'm sure 5% can relate.....again. We've been though this shit before.

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Obvious you don't know what the two words mean.

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Originally Posted by Black Man

Obvious you don't know what the two words mean.

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Parallel case to people having different meaning to the original question of this thread: distinguishing spirituality and religion....some have different views and think they are distinct.

Who can distinguish these terms the best? who is right at the end? the authors of the English dictionary?

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Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG

Parallel case to people having different meaning to the original question of this thread: distinguishing spirituality and religion....some have different views and think they are distinct.

Who can distinguish these terms the best? who is right at the end? the authors of the English dictionary?

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Spirituality, religion, culture....they're not the same.

As far as defining these terms, they're already defined. People want to utilize they're interpretation/understanding/misunderstanding of what these words mean to suite their ideas/motives or whatever.

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Originally Posted by Black Man

Spirituality, religion, culture....they're not the same.

As far as defining these terms, they're already defined. People want to utilize they're interpretation/understanding/misunderstanding of what these words mean to suite their ideas/motives or whatever.

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They aren't the same, however they do have some overlap in characteristics. What people argue is exactly how they overlap, or if one term a subset of the other term. Also if the definition is too broad or narrow also has to be considered.

This overlap is the confusing part of everything and why there is some broken communication in this thread. Some people believe that their definitions are "correct" and the others have comprehension problems. This approach will take us nowhere.

I guess you are right that sometimes people deliberately try to equivocate terms. But on the other hand, sometimes another closely related conceptual word doesn't suit their ideas/motives and they use one largely known word and use it to try to keep things simple. In many cases their ideas are still valid if most of the population understands.

As far as things already defined, concepts are NEVER defined precisely no matter what dictionaries you look in. There might have been attempts in this thread to interpret things, but so far not everyone has been convinced or else this thread would have stopped.

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Originally Posted by Black Man

Spirituality, religion, culture....they're not the same.

As far as defining these terms, they're already defined. People want to utilize they're interpretation/understanding/misunderstanding of what these words mean to suite their ideas/motives or whatever.

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does this guy have the same ip address as Goddess?


this seems to be a monthly thing...

some sort of cycle...

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Originally Posted by Charging Soldier

Cultures practice religions, your just being silly again. Are the lines between are culture and religion are so intertwined that it's our way of life and that's how he refer to it, i'm sure 5% can relate.....again. We've been though this shit before.

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but religions exist beyond culture's borders, which are geographic. religion's borders are in the mind and much different person to person. example, you have American culture (if you wanna call it culture:no: ) which is not only home to christians but muslims, hindu, even buddhists and radical cultists.

the culture is the congregation of all these things, as well as others, isnt it? my problem with religion is its historical application and what it represents in our past, in my opinion. it can confine the mind... but dont forget that for those who actually believe in it, it provides a healthy source of hope, something athiests (term used loosely) dont have much of.

last point - i think someone's religious belief system, in whatever shape or form, is as predictable as their social patterns and basic personality - all shaped by experience and genes? we also have to realize that the majority of the people in the world today think less deeply into shit of this importance.

peace