Talk:Spiritual being

"For example Zeus was a god and any given dryad? a spirit in greek mythology."

I'm almost sure that dryads were not regarded in a way closely analagous to the modern word "spirit" (Greek would have been what? Pneuma? Daimon? ) I think the dryads were "just" very minor goddesses.

Can anyone clarify?

ficshanal ?

> are ficshanal spirits

I'm unfamiliar with Star Trek, so I don't know if that is a misspelling or not ?

Science Fiction Section Removed

I've removed this small section, because I don't think it helps the explanation of the topic any, and I'm not sure that the fictional character Q would constitute a spirit in any sense. Takes corporeal form, for one thing.

Science fiction

The fictional being Q from Star Trek are fictional spirits, as they possess many, if not all, of the trait mentioned above.

Mythological creature

Shouldn't this article be merged with "mythological creature"? And people, sign yourself please. --Eleassar777 07:45, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, this discussion and definition of spiritual being is core to almost every religion. While mythological creatures might have been physical or might have been spiritual, the idea of a being existing without any physical universe body at all is broad, intersecting mythology, religion, science, ghosts, etc. Terryeo 01:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I did notice that we automatically assume that spirits are incorporeal, when much of the time they are as solid as a human. Iro 04:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Redirect

This article should be redirected somewhere - probably to Spirit - it doesn't seem to have much worth keeping. Paul 17:39, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]