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[quote=Anonymous]I have been irreligious most of my life and everything that is happening is pushing me towards exploring spirituality because I need something to hang on to. I was raised Catholic but that's not it for me. It's a cliche (UMC white lady) but I've been exploring/practicing Buddhism the last several years and it has helped.

In some ways we need religion more than ever.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about the movie (and book) Contact. It's about a scientist who makes receives a message from an alien species, and how the world reacts to this and then what happens when humanity attempts to make contact with them. It is about science and religion and philosophy, the search for meaning, and trying to figure out what the purpose of all this is.

There is a line from the movie I always think of, describing humanity as "tiny, and insignificant and... rare, and precious" when viewed from the perspective of the entire universe. I like this perspective. All of these problems we have now are, truthfully, very small an unimportant when viewed from a great distance and in the context of all of existence. Yet all that is good in humanity, all our connection and love and creativity and warmth, is extraordinary and precious when viewed from the same perspective. We are so much less important than we like to think we are, but we are also capable of something truly wonderful and special.

I don't know, I'm babbling. TL;DR: everything that is happening in the world has caused me to seek spiritual outlets and some kind of connection with a force bigger than myself.[/quote]

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