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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 11 August 2014 08:03:02PM -2 points [-]

there was a simple conflation of the concepts behind the words "spiritual system" and "spiritual."

I dunno, thinking about it in terms of "spiritual system" applying in general, and "spiritual" applying to a specific case does not seem like a conflation, in the same way that "set" and "element of set" are distinct.

By the time you reach B, you can could've proved whatever you wanted.

In this case this certainly is true:

Drinking is part of reality, therefore drinking is spiritual.

generalises to:

X is part of reality, therefore X is spiritual.

Of course, this might sound more profound when you've been drinking.

Comment author: Stabilizer 11 August 2014 08:52:21PM *  1 point [-]

I dunno, thinking about it in terms of "spiritual system" applying in general, and "spiritual" applying to a specific case does not seem like a conflation, in the same way that "set" and "element of set" are distinct.

Not all things referred to in a spiritual system need be spiritual. For example, a spiritual system could say that drinking is not spiritual -- which is what Islam explicitly says. Indeed, associating the tag "spiritual" or "not spiritual" to different activities is one of the main goals of religions.

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