Me too! Connection with others outside one's self and with the world around us is one of the greatest sources of strength and satisfaction we'll ever feel. Many go so far as to displace their own agency, as CR described here, and to accept tenets and rules without consideration of their appropriateness and even ethical rightness in varying circumstances. This is where religion starts to really go off the rails, and how it can be an actively harmful force in our lives.
Spirituality is exactly what I was writing about in this post. It differs only for humans, in how we describe it. But the drive itself (the "impulse") can be measured in all higher mammals - something religionists use as proof of the gods, but which I think simply a measure of community-based creatures' need for connection with others.
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Re: Comment, part 2
Date: 2012-11-15 05:33 pm (UTC)Spirituality is exactly what I was writing about in this post. It differs only for humans, in how we describe it. But the drive itself (the "impulse") can be measured in all higher mammals - something religionists use as proof of the gods, but which I think simply a measure of community-based creatures' need for connection with others.