Spirituality

[michaelzz]

Spirituality is just a word in the dictionary. Learn to become conscious human beings; decent, honest and unafraid. Ninety per cent of the occupy protestors would gladly trade places with the 1% if given the opportunity. Not so, those who understand the only power that money has, which is to support your life on the physical level. It has no power to confer happiness. This movement needs critical thinkers who are conscious not intellectuals with conditioned minds who cannot even ask the right questions, let alone supply the correct solutions.

Michael P.

[Lucki]

Well, yes. Every word in the dictionary is just a word in the dictionary until someone applies it to their life. If your definition of spirituality -- i.e., "decent, honest and unafraid" -- works for you in the way you live your life, all to the good. I appreciate you sharing your definition & how you apply it. OTOH, you can't tell me how I define or apply it; only I can do that. Being unafraid includes not being afraid of other people's versions of spirituality even -- especially -- if they aren't the same as yours.

Of course, you are absolutely correct that money has no power to confer happiness. Not in & of itself. OTOH, I think your indictment of "ninety per cent of the occupy protestors" is pretty bogus. Unless you can cite a reliable source/method for coming up with that figure, it's just unsupported rhetoric, not critical thinking. And even if there are people in the Movement who would indeed "gladly trade places" with someone in the 1%, that doesn't mean they'd necessarily start acting like the people they traded places with. After all, there are already people in the 1% who have demonstrated equitable thinking & feelings that can only be described as conscience ... even spirituality.

The strength of the Occupy Movement is that it's raising questions so many people haven't really tho't to ask themselves before. It's challenging default assumptions. It raising the call for solutions. As long as it keeps asking questions, some of them are going to be the right questions. As long as it keeps challenging assumptions, some of them are going to be changed. As long as it keeps seeking solutions, some of them are going to be found. It doesn't matter by whom. (Yeah, & it's downright amazing how much you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit.)