Can an Atheist be Spiritual?

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I used to believe that being spiritual had something to do with religious belief. And it does. So whenever I heard an atheist say something about bing spiritual, I thought, How can you be a non-believer, and be spiritual? I never said anything to the people I heard say things like that, I just thought, at the time, they were either not authentic in their atheism, or, more probably, confused. To me, it was hypocritical to claim to be an atheist on one hand, then on the other discuss being spiritual. Aren’t those two things completely different?

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Experience is a Deficit Now

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Looking at some posts over on Linkedin, I came across a post by an. older Information Technology person (I guess)complaining the way he was interviewed by someone in HR at a prospective company. This had me angry one second and laughing the next because, well, as someone that has a long career in IT, I’ve been through the same situation multiple times. I’ve come to call it, The Runaround.

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Are Conservatives Any Better?

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In 2019, I wrote a piece here titled, We Need to Cancel Cancel Culture and showed (I believe) why this is bad for society in general. As a conservative, this really didn’t affect me directly, because the left, those that refer to themselves as progresive, mainly attacked others on the left that were not far enough left for them. As I’ve said before, many times, the left loves to eat their own. It’s a cannibalistic tribe. We still see it going on today, although less, as many on the left have realized that they are not the firefighters of society, but the arsonists, in this casem burning down their own house.

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