>>41588
>I wouldn't believe in what I believe if it wasn't the actual, honest-to-God, nature of the universe.
But you only think that's the case. Plenty of people believe in what they believe to be nature of the universe that completely contradicts what you do. Although there are constants, they're just not what you're expecting.
>I think what Chobitsu was saying is that our spirituality and our personal souls are separate.
There are a bunch of metaphysical concepts that have some overlap and some that don't agree with each other at all. Soul is a vaguely different concept than spirit, possibly due to having a root in a language and/or culture. You can have an incredibly complex system of auras, chakras, life-energy, and planes of existence all being separate things, but that doesn't make any of them any more real than a magic system made-up for a fantasy novel.
>Somewhat related, I personally love it when sci-fi explains some legend as actually a sci-fi phenomenon in the past (ex. Stargate SG-1, Doctor Who, etc...)
There's a difference between that and it actually being a science and being woven into sci-fi. Go back 150 years and almost nothing was known about electricity, but it's provably real, so there were probably a lot of misconceptions about how exactly it worked, what caused it, what it could do, and so on, to the point it was practically magic. Everything you could learn about it that's still applicable today likely involves static electricity or atmospheric electricity experiments, but almost nothing practical, and the explanations why these things work are probably complete nonsense with rules that have so many exceptions to them that it'd never even be worth learning. Today if you wanted to learn everything there is to know about electricity then it's an overwhelming amount of math, physics, chemistry, which is incredibly boring to learn compared to something that sounded magical, and almost everyone benefits from its use without really needing to know anything about it. And there are people who've spent their lives studying chi, souls, spirits, reincarnation, planes of existence, the nature of god, and other mumbo-jumbo for thousands of years without the fraction of the effect that experimenting with electricity has had on our lives. If any of it could be proven true it probably be as wrong as early scientific theories of electricity were. And as I said the first time I mentioned chi, it's far easier to simply move the goal post and pretend you were never wrong in the first place. And it certainly saves you from needing to learn anything new.
>>41589
Morality is subjective, because everywhere you go what is or isn't considered moral changes. Like I said before, you'd only think it's universal due to ignorance. I've heard people argue that eating meat is immoral, while some people that eat meat recoil in disgust at halal animal slaughter where the animal be killed slowly and painfully. Indians won't eat cows but will eat pig, and muslims and jews will eat cow but not pig, etc.