Religion
In reply to the discussion: "Atheism: A personal relationship with reality." [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)and most honestly I'm looking for understanding, connection. And my real heart felt point is that our sensual experience is not limited to five external senses or their technological extensions, we have also fuzzy collection of "internal" body sesnses - gut feelings etc. And there's many that accept some sort of holographic interpretation of such internal sensual experiences, or rather, the whole field is really open.
And this level of experience for many of us is more meaningful and "real" than predictive explanations which is the level on which science as we know it works. And even further, we tend to recognize each other, those who have experienced "above" the explanatory level, and respect those experiences and their "spiritual" meaning.
And yes, its really difficult and "hell" with people who don't have experiences that connect with such experiences (that we don't talk about). Holier than thou? Hell yes and that's how cults and religions are born.
Hmm. Dunno what to say. All help welcome and aprecieted.