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Perhaps a spiritual or philosophical "ego."
The major pitfall is that they don't have much of a practical use in our day-to-day lives.
You can be for or against specific philosophical concepts, or enjoy speculative thought, and you can claim to be a "spiritual" person (which really just means you're a nice person with or without a belief in religion) but when it comes to an actual "use" for those things…
They fall short…
Carl Sagan, before he died (in my opinion) solved the "abortion" issue. He said (and I think he made a good point) that the area of the brain where we know the seat of intelligence and personality is, is in the Corpus Callopsum (check spelling) and that area is not present in the 1st part of a pregnancy. Therefore, aborting a fetus before that area starts to develop, kills nothing.
And therefore, it's not murder…
But even that knowledge won't stop abortion foes from killing adult humans.
Spirituality is "nice," but it's simply a "neutrality" between religion, agnosticism, and atheism, and takes no stand at all on the issue, it just shrugs it off…and therefore solves nothing…
My brain loves philosophy…it hits the pleasure center in a harmless way…
But it's never helped me pay the bills…
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There are no pitfalls. The only person who will find them is one who believes ignorance is bliss
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The major pitfall is that they don't have much of a practical use in our day-to-day lives.
You can be for or against specific philosophical concepts, or enjoy speculative thought, and you can claim to be a "spiritual" person (which really just means you're a nice person with or without a belief in religion) but when it comes to an actual "use" for those things…
They fall short…
Carl Sagan, before he died (in my opinion) solved the "abortion" issue. He said (and I think he made a good point) that the area of the brain where we know the seat of intelligence and personality is, is in the Corpus Callopsum (check spelling) and that area is not present in the 1st part of a pregnancy. Therefore, aborting a fetus before that area starts to develop, kills nothing.
And therefore, it's not murder…
But even that knowledge won't stop abortion foes from killing adult humans.
Spirituality is "nice," but it's simply a "neutrality" between religion, agnosticism, and atheism, and takes no stand at all on the issue, it just shrugs it off…and therefore solves nothing…
My brain loves philosophy…it hits the pleasure center in a harmless way…
But it's never helped me pay the bills…
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One difficulty that i can think of is to establish why one should be good.(assuming you are not religious).One may argue that selfishness ,even cruelty is natural.
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Fear and the ego.
No ego no fear, no learning curve.
Good luck.
Love and blessings Don
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Padminig's answer is the pitfall of what most people consider "spirituality." The belief that only "religion" protects us from behaving badly. It is my experience that it is in fact the opposite. We arrive with the full potential of loving and contributing to the good. It is shaming - which is an accepted part of the Abrahamic traditions - that in fact causes a psychological split in most people that perpetuates the "evil" by the need to dissociate it.
The only real pitfall I see is the "babel" issue or not being able to connect the semantic dots between differing fields talking about the same thing using different terminology. That is the challenge. Once we "get that" the learning curve is no longer steep.
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