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Green

8 (16%)

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2 (4%)

Democratic

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Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

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Total Members Voted: 49

[Tarran]

What, can't we have two?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What, can't we have two?

So has been decreed by the Council of the Twelfth Bay. 

[Dsarker]

Well, considering it could easily be translated today as 'Shampoo Head'.....

[KaelGotDwarves]

Your Spirit score is very high, much higher than the average. If you wouldn't mind, please take a little time to explain how you manage to succeed so well at this aspect of your life. Your words may be read by someone else who scored very low. Take a moment to give them some useful advice. Your thoughts are very much appreciated.

That's a terrible idea.

Let's see. Watched loved ones die when I was very young. Visited the concentration camps of Europe as a child. Dealt with gangs and prostitutes as a teenager in seedy Thailand. Fell in head over heels in love with a girl that was sexually abused as a child when he was 14. Nearly committed suicide himself after. Watched many of his friends lose minds due to drugs and some commit suicide back stateside. Stood atop countless corpses at the Killing Fields in Cambodia. Was involved in relief efforts following two tsunamis. Watched an 18 year old kid get stabbed in the chest and killed right in front of him. Got self deported from Myanmar for attacking a pimp of a child prostitute and bribed his way out of the ensuing shitstorm. Still fighting bipolar disorder which was misdiagnosed for years. Constantly feels an awareness of emotions, thoughts, dreams of billions of living people. Sees the worst and best of humanity. Spent time as a monk pursuing the answers to life, the universe, and everything. Atheist, Humanist, Buddhist, post-positivist, post-labelist constructivist that would rather bullshit and joke around when he's not constantly fighting... fighting... fighting suffering. It doesn't need to be this way even though it's the way it always goes. I have to believe in the good within people, within their abilities to positively change their environment - or I would have died a long time ago. There's a beauty in everything, a certain rhythmic dance to the tune of the music of 7 billion beating hearts and buzzing minds, the vibrations of the Earth-planet that we all call home, the minute harmonics of the cells, atoms, sub-atomic particles, energy that binds us all together with the stars.

I'm a spiritual guy that doesn't believe in spirits. I believe in us. I believe in myself. That's all.

edit: grammar.

[ToonyMan]

Wow that's amaaazing Kael.

[Nivim]

 You don't think that, just as you posted it here, would be a good thing to add to their site Kael?

[KaelGotDwarves]

Clear, starry nights do seem to channel another aspect of the universe from within myself.

But you guys already know that 99.9% of what I do is bullshit. So I'm comfortable with sharing certain thoughts here

Wouldn't want anyone thinking that I'm deep or anything.

[Vector]

"Jesus wept."

Religious text: quoted.

It's like the test administrators didn't write the thing with logical answers in mind...

[Patchouli]

I said I couldn't think of any off the top of my head, but then I remembered "Let there be light". I wonder if I'd have gotten a spiritual boost.

And Kael once again makes me feel like I belong in the shallow end of the pool.

[Heron TSG]

I could think of one from quite a few English translations of religious texts.

Qur'an: "Mohammed"
Bible: "Lord"
Torah: "Yahweh/God"
Bhagavad Gita: "I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds"
Avestan Texts: "Ahriman"

But that more says that I'm a smartass than a religious nut.

[KaelGotDwarves]

And Kael once again makes me feel like I belong in the shallow end of the pool.

Nope. Don't do that to yourself. There's a barely apperceivable love that permeates the entire cosmos.

The understanding of it is something that I have glimpsed on occasion. I'm still trying, just as everyone else.

[Dsarker]

"Jesus wept."

Religious text: quoted.

It's like the test administrators didn't write the thing with logical answers in mind...

Why not go with another old classic?

"And Elisha cursed them in the name of the LORD, and two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty two of them to death."

[KaelGotDwarves]

The god of the Old Testament was a dick. New Testament god is a pretty chill dude.

Even the god of the fan-fic Book of Mormon I+II is much preferred.

[Nivim]

But you guys already know that 99.9% of what I do is bullshit. So I'm comfortable with sharing certain thoughts here

Wouldn't want anyone thinking that I'm deep or anything.

Then I guess I aught to integrate a little of your awesome into what I'm writting for it, although it'll be hard since I don't have overlap for most of it.

[Pnx]

         Life: 4.5
Mind 3.4
Body 5.5
Spirit 4.1
Friends/Family 2.9
Love 1.4
Finance 4.8

I have a sucky life. Go figure. By all rights I shouldn't but I don't feel disinclined to agree. But never mind that.

Anyway, so the closest I generally come to spiritualism is the rare lapse into contemplation on how surreal life feels to me (which can get fairly intense). Religious texts while sometimes interesting for purely academic reasons, have completely failed to give me any useful lessons I didn't already know. My beliefs are wedged firmly in agnostic with a lean toward nihilistic. I feel that the question of "is there or is there not a god/overarching plan/intelligible guiding force in the universe" is academic, since it seems pretty clear we just have to figure things out for ourselves. Relying on or expecting anything else to guide us is just silly, and leads to hurt. I also believe everyone has to figure things out for themselves. Partly because nobody else in the world seems in a position to actually know better, but mostly because in the belief game, earning your answers is a thousand times more valuable than being given them. Even if it is hard work, and sometimes unpleasant.
I dunno reality is a surreal, infinite series of points that are positioned relative to each other and can only be perceived relative to each other, and are perceived differently depending on which points you are using to perceive those points, and then things get complicated.

I can't be the only one here who is occasionally overwhelmed with the sense of how surreal reality is, how strange it is that I'm this bundle of neurons, this collection of consciousness, in this vast complex reality... can I? I get the feeling I'm making no sense at all.