So you think any of the above "beliefs" qualify you as "spiritual"? Why? Would I be spiritual if I believed the green Venusians were plotting to overthrow the next US election or bombard us with banana bread pudding?
I think this could be a VERY interesting thread, if it were focused on what people actually mean by the statement. What constitutes "religious" or "spiritual," for example? I suspect people vary rather wildly on how they'd answer those questions.
I don't classify myself as either, but I imagine that some might consider me "spiritual," in the sense that I'm concerned with larger ethical and psychological issues...?
Definitely - but as you say, Tina, not the kind of cyber-dating which is exclusively virtual with only a (faint) prospect of meeting at some far-flung future date (the rough equivalent of "never meeting").
Yes, it can work...though it seems that many people consider their online relationship a success per hypothesis - that is, before they actually are together. The only success being achieved there, I think, is often a successful fantasy. It's best to keep one's head while in the virtual phase of romance, imo.
Think of it in this way: How many of our rational, happy, and successful actions are motivated by fear? Consider our romantic relationships. Can you imagine a healthy romantic relationship - or any relationship - based on fear.
Not to suggest that anyone should attempt a romantic relationship with a deity. You're bound to get burned.
RE: Socrates' Triple Filter Test
And why would Socrates have cared about whom his wife was sleeping with?(Please recall this was ancient Greece and that Socrates was far more entranced with other seductions.)