Cycling: is there a spiritual side to it?

[rwm1962]

1 - yes
2- no

 

[synchronicity]

What religious/spiritual people forget is that we too are animals.

There's nothing innately 'special' about humans. If it wasn't us it would have been another species.
I fully expect intelligent cockroach- and/or crustacean- style intelligent alien life is out there somewhere.

No such thing as a 'spirit'. Load of rubbish it is.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

What religious/spiritual people forget is that we too are animals.

There's nothing innately 'special' about humans. If it wasn't us it would have been another species.
I fully expect intelligent cockroach- and/or crustacean- style intelligent alien life is out there somewhere.

No such thing as a 'spirit'. Load of rubbish it is.

The Oxford dictionary disagrees with you. I think you are in the wrong thread.

 

[synchronicity]

Are you saying that we humans aren't animals?
P.S: I don't really care whether you think I'm in the wrong thread or not.
I'll continue to post here.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Are you saying that we humans aren't animals?
P.S: I don't really care whether you think I'm in the wrong thread or not.
I'll continue to post here.

Go for it.

 

[synchronicity]

You know forums are meant to be places where people with different ideas can contribute. They're not meant to be echo chambers where everyone agrees on everything. How boring would that be?

I personally think cycling is no more 'spiritual' than eating turds is to some dogs. We do it because it feels good, we like it.
Why read more into it than that?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I fully expect intelligent cockroach- and/or crustacean- style intelligent alien life is out there somewhere.

They're here. And they're octopi

 

[novocaine]

You know forums are meant to be places where people with different ideas can contribute. They're not meant to be echo chambers where everyone agrees on everything. How boring would that be?

I personally think cycling is no more 'spiritual' than eating turds is to some dogs. We do it because it feels good, we like it.
Why read more into it than that?

Well it has to be better for the mind than screaming in to an empty chamber because we all went to bed.

Perhaps spiritual isn't the correct word, but following this thread (and one person has hit it on the head) the feeling of euphoria that the perfect ride brings, thanks in no small part to a release of dopamine and serotonin from our monkey like organs for doing something good for us, getting a bit excited, and using our muscles for something is certainly worth while.

If people wish to present this as a spiritual feeling then there really isn't any great harm in it (better than the other sort that results in wars). It is the same feeling that those who seek spiritualism feel when they mediated for prolong periods (along with a burning urge to pee), and for the exact same reason (release of sweet sweet body made drugs baby). Leave em be Synchro, they got their reason, I got mine and you got yours, just because they don't align, doesn't mean they are all wrong.


Science is great, we understand so much more than we ever have (at least we think we do) but almost every great scientist has at some point said that you have to see the beauty in something, not just understand it.

peas and love brother, peas and love.

 

[synchronicity]

My ride the day before yesterday definitely wasn't very 'spiritual' no.
My neighbour had earlier threatened to shoot my innocent dogs (he repeated himself ten times over).
So I was a bit preoccupied with that during my whole ride.

And also, when a car nearly swipes me off the road, or in a recent case zooms past at full acceleration then changing gears + timing it just right as he's passing so that his silly turbo blow off valve scares you, no that wasn't a very 'spiritual' moment either.

 

[novocaine]

My ride the day before yesterday definitely wasn't very 'spiritual' no.
My neighbour had earlier threatened to shoot my innocent dogs (he repeated himself ten times over).
So I was a bit preoccupied with that during my whole ride.

And also, when a car nearly swipes me off the road, or in a recent case zooms past at full acceleration then changing gears + timing it just right as he's passing so that his silly turbo blow off valve scares you, no that wasn't a very 'spiritual' moment either.

I hear that, I refer you to one of my previous posts about it being far nicer when we don't have to put up with other people, turns out the biggest issue with the human race is the human race. your rides sound a lot like the majority of mine, I hope you find that ride that brings you back soon.