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gonna get ripped off someday .. if not as u speak. that's what
comes to mind. would not say that to em tho.. they'll know  I
roll my eyes (figuratively, not visibly) and change the subject.
Admittedly, to be "spiritual but not religious" makes no sense.
I'm guilty of using this expression. My use of the term,
'spiritual,' had nothing to do with seances or a belief in a
connection with some remote (or immediate) deity. I'm Buddhist
and deny the existence of a soul; nonetheless, Buddhism refers
to 'spirits' and 'demons' as a way of packaging concepts, with
no belief in the actual existence of such entities.  Sometimes,
'spirit,' is a 'warm fuzzy,' e.g., camaraderie; other times,
it's something far less warm, e.g., the 'spirit of fear' that
infused a convenience store as I stood at the counter, over 40
years ago, when a man pulled out a revolver and told us all to
"Freeze!" I still remember this 'feeling,' and 'spirit' still
strikes me as one of th