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With the recent drama that has affected some friends and someone I am very close to, I've been thinking a lot about modern self-image re: "spirituality". Naturally, when contemplating these things, you tend to internalize. Last night, I had a revelation. It is this:

I am a mass of organic cells comprised of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, magnesium and other elements working together in a complex system with other organisms to run as one coherent being.

When you really sit down and think of it that way, the rest just seems kind of shallow.

Edit: Wow, that looks a lot more arrogant than I meant it to look. Please note that "spirituality" in this case refers strictly to things like otherkin/soulbonders/new age ideas about our place in life, the universe, and everything, and not to any actual organized religious beliefs. You can argue about WHAT created life until you're blue in the face and nobody will make any headway. I just think many people are making attempts to find meaning in life, but are so busy trying to overthink the problem that they usually fall short of grasping the magnitude of life.

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[vampirelematt.livejournal.com]

I'm sometimes asked how I can be so comfortable in my atheist views on life, how I can be satisfied with the "non miracle", to me the machinations of reality *are* wonderful and awe inspiring.

We are all made of stars, literally.

[katimus-prime.livejournal.com]

When I felt myself starting to freak out shortly after getting out of the hospital, I continually reminded myself that the sky was blue because of the light reflecting the molecules in the water, and that the grass was green because of the chlorophyll it needs to soak up the sun.

Science fact has generally been the ice pack I've started to put on the roiling boil of completely unfounded spiritual things. In my time, I feel like I've gazed straight into the backbone of the cosmos, and it was just so overwhelming and so full of symbolism beyond my little brain's scope that what little bit I did understand was completely terrifying. That game is something I'll let other people play.

It's always good to identify SOMETHING on the outside world with yourself, but I generally prefer this thing to be something I don't mention a whole lot, because it's for me, and not other people.

[equals-32.livejournal.com]

Meaning in life for me comes as a natural process following my own experiences/whatever tends to give me a sense of strength. Not through sitting around puzzling possibilities until my head fills with helium and falls off.

I believe in a spirit and some manner of divine universal order (for the record I do NOT believe anything "created life" in terms of organisms per se, but I believe the universe is animated by some form of energy) but acting as if there is a prescribed "meaning of life" is sorta... Well, limiting, for one. I'd much rather experience what is meaningful to me, and choose to incorporate that into my life as much as I can.

[katimus-prime.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome outlook! :D