Ignorance especially mixed with entitlement can absolutely make my skin crawl all too easily

Here are some of my favorites for those who are interested;

• “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows" -Epictetus
• "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” -Epictetus
• “You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner.” -Alan Watts
• “You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.” -Alan Watts (probably)
• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” -Socrates
• “Ask yourself, what problem you have right now; not next year, tomorrow or 5 minutes from now, what is wrong with this moment. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” -Seneca
• “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the now.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.” -Heraclitus
• “Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• "Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, ...for knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it." -Ptah-Hotep
• “When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.” -Ajahn Chah
• “Any time you’re somewhere you don’t want to be, you create a prison for yourself.” -Ajahn Brahm
• "Love has no meaning without understanding" -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.” -Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" -Proverb
• "If you apologize once, you do it again and again and again. Like taking bricks out of the wall of your f*cking house." -Tommy Shelby
• "They done what's right by them, can't expect more than that" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• "The only rules that really matter are these; what a man can do, and what a man can't do" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer” -Rick Sanchez
• "If you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad." -Rick Sanchez
• “I try never to understand, it's called an open mind.” -The Doctor
• "Heaven's a mindset away" -NBT
• "If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people" -Christopher Walken
• "Emotions are electrical signals, we don't choose them, they are rarely calls to action. They're usually calls for reflection." -Adam Grant
• "Peace does not come to people who refuse to declare war on what's destroying them" -Internet
• “Leave an insult on the ground and the owner will come pick it up” -Internet
• “Worrying is like worshipping the problem.” -Internet
• "You inspire me to be nothing like you" -Internet

*I will make a comment of my full list for those who like this shorter one

These are all of my collected quotes, if you have any similar ones please share with me, i hope you find some you like here.

There are a lot, but i bolded the best & put them first, feel free to skip the rest.

• “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows" -Epictetus
• "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” -Epictetus
• “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” -Seneca (edited)
• “Ask yourself, what problem you have right now; not next year, tomorrow or 5 minutes from now, what is wrong with this moment. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• “You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner.” -Alan Watts
• “You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.” -Alan Watts (probably)
• "If you apologize once, you do it again and again and again. Like taking bricks out of the wall of your fucking house." -Tommy Shelby
• "They done what's right by them, can't expect more than that" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• "Heaven's a mindset away" -Nothing But Thieves
• "Love has no meaning without understanding" -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.” -Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• “When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.” -Ajahn Chah
• “It isn’t the sense object which disturbs you, it is you which disturbs the sense object.” -Ajahn Chah (edited)
• “What’s past is left behind, the future has not arrived” -Buddha
• “Never is hatred laid to rest by hate, it’s laid to rest by love.” -Buddha [MN128]

Venerables

• “If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.” -Ajahn Chah
• “If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.” -Ajahn Chah
• “Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.” -Ajahn Chah
• “When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.” -Ajahn Chah
• “It isn’t the sense object which disturbs you, it is you which disturbs the sense object.” -Ajahn Chah (edited)
• “This is uncertain.” -Ajahn Chah
• “Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.” -Ajahn Chah
• “Never let knowledge stand in the way of truth.” -Ajahn Brahm
• “Hold it at a distance where it belongs.“ -Ajahn Brahm (memory edited)
• “Don't endure, be kind.” -Ajahn Brahm
• “Any time you’re somewhere you don’t want to be, you create a prison for yourself.” -Ajahn Brahm
• “What is it that i take myself to be” -Ajahn Brahm
• “Be content and easily satisfied” -Ajahn Brahm
• “Views condition perception, perception conditions thoughts, and thoughts then condition the views, thus incorrect view will distort perception to suit itself, this is how wrong view is justified.” -Ajahn Brahm (edited)
• “Contentment is knowing what you are and are not capable of.“ -Ajahn Brahm? (memory edited)
• “What’s done is finished.” -Unknown (Brahm story, memory edited)
• “Doing it is easy, thinking about it is hard.” -Unknown (Brahm story, memory edited)
• "Understanding is love's other name" -Thich Nhat Hanh
• "Love has no meaning without understanding" -Thich Nhat Hanh
• "When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less." -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “There is no one sitting, no one breathing, only the sitting and only the breathing.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “The body contains the mind, help the body to stop.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “To be alive is already a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Heaven cannot be without hell; one day each year in hell is needed, so that the other days may truly be heaven.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (memory edited)
• “You can’t be happy if you don’t know that you are happy.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (memory edited from video)
• “If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.” -Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• “When you haven’t grasped the meaning of even one teaching, what’s the point of more listening?” -Dza Patrul Rinpoche

Philosophers

• “The reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t.” -Alan Watts
• “No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” -Alan Watts
• “You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner.” -Alan Watts
• “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.” -Alan Watts
• "You are the universe experiencing itself" -Alan Watts (edited)
• “You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.” -Alan Watts (probably)
• “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.” -Alan Watts (allegedly)
• “What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world belongs to you.” -Marcus Aurelius
• “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows" -Epictetus
• "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” -Epictetus
• “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” -Epictetus
• “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” -Epictetus
• “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.” -Heraclitus
• “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” -Seneca (edited)
• "If you don't know which port you are sailing to, no wind is favorable." -Seneca (edited)
• “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” -Seneca
• “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” -Seneca
• "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." -Seneca
• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” -Socrates
• “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?” -Lao Tzu
• “One may say ‘what a beautiful sunset’, but he is not watching the sunset, he is watching the words” -Lao Tzu? (Brahm story) (edited)
• “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
• “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the now.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “Problems of the mind can’t be solved by the mind, studying the mind won’t take you beyond the mind, instead its continuing to identify with the mind; which is the problem” -Eckhart Tolle (edited)
• “Are you stressed, are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there” -Eckhart Tolle
• “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “Ask yourself, what problem you have right now; not next year, tomorrow or 5 minutes from now, what is wrong with this moment. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “The past can not survive in your presence, it can only survive in your absence” -Eckhart Tolle
• “I wonder what my next thought is going to be, then become very alert and wait for the next thought. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? As long as you’re in a state of intense presence, you’re free of thought, you’re still, yet highly alert.“ -Eckhart Tolle
• “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” -Eckhart Tolle
• “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” -Eckhart Tolle
• "Doubt is not a very pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire
• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
• “Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• “The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
• "Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, ...for knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it." -Ptah-Hotep
• “When your last breath arrives, intellectual knowledge can do nothing” -Sri Adi Shankaracharya
• “You chase external things so that you can feel something inside, forgetting that all feelings are generated within you, what is external is only a reminder that you can create the internal emotion you desire, don't wait for something outside of you, something fleeting, dependent, uncertain, & rampant, to give you permission to feel how you want inside.” -Joseph Nguyen (edited)
• "Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end." -Bob Marley

Proverbs/People/Fiction

• "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" -Proverb
• "A half-truth is a whole lie." -Proverb
• "Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." -Proverb
• “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me.” -Proverb
• “This too shall pass” -Persian Proverb
• “Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.” -Fake Buddha
• “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” -Fake Buddha
• “Shoveling shit. To remind myself of what I would have been if I wasn’t who I am.” -Tommy Shelby
• "Lies travel faster than the truth." -Tommy Shelby (unverified) "The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless." -Tommy Shelby
• "If you apologize once, you do it again and again and again. Like taking bricks out of the wall of your fucking house." -Tommy Shelby
• "Just remember, if they spit, just spit back." -Polly Shelby
• "I was dead in that noose and then i was saved, so everything from now on is extra. When you're dead already, you're free. Fucking love it." -Polly Shelby
• "Oh, my god. So in the absence of common sense, you boys have had an idea." -Polly Shelby
• "The only rules that really matter are these; what a man can do, and what a man can't do" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• "They done what's right by them, can't expect more than that" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• “If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.” -Captain Jack Sparrow
• 'I'm not looking for any trouble' "What a horrible way to live" -Captain Jack Sparrow
• "Parents are just kids having kids." -Morty Smith
• "You can't make people like you. You just have to wait for hating you to bore them." -Beth Sanchez
• "Have you ever tried to relax? It is a paradox." -Jerry Smith
• "What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty? The answer is don't think about it." -Rick Sanchez
• "If you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad, Morty." -Rick Sanchez
• “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer” -Rick Sanchez
• "Hardly anything is evil. But most things are hungry. Hunger looks very like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery." -The Doctor
• "Nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning." -The Doctor
• “I try never to understand, it's called an open mind.” -The Doctor
• “Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on anybody that you do not like.” -Clara Oswald
• “What advice would you give you” -Comanche (Luke Cage)
• "Some people fear the end but I carry it, It's in my pocket, it keeps me safe" -NBT
• "Heaven's a mindset away" -NBT
• “Comparison is the thief of joy” -Theodore Roosevelt
• "The fears we don't face become our limits" -Robin Sharma
• "Growth and comfort do not coexist." -Ginni Rometty
• “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” -Margaret Hungerford
• “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” -Dale Carnegie
• "Many people think that dopamine is released when the brain receives a reward, but dopamine is actually released in anticipation of a reward." -Susan M. Weinschenk
• “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” -Mark Twain
• “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” -C.S. Lewis
• "The best way to get the right answer, is not to ask a question; it’s to pose the wrong answer" -Ward Cunningham (edited)
• "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." -Michel de Montaigne
• “Watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Watch your words, for they become your actions. Watch your actions, for they become your habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” -Frank Outlaw
• "If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people" -Christopher Walken
• “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.” -Albert Ellis
• "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become" -James Clear
• "Slow success builds character, fast success builds ego." -Ratan Tata
• "Emotions are electrical signals, we don't choose them, they are rarely calls to action. They're usually calls for reflection." -Adam Grant
• "You aren't where you want to be because you aren't the person who would be there." -Dan Koe
• "You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, then you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it" -Paul Heyman
• “Treat yourself like someone you love” -Glennon Melton

Unknown/No origin

• “Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” -Airlines
• “A person's true strength is shown in how they deal with their weaknesses” -Unknown
• “Indulging in mindlessness is like drinking poison because you're thirsty” -Unknown
• “No single mental state is the goal.” -Unknown
• “Nobody thinks of you as much as you think of yourself.” -Unknown
• "You shouldn’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice" -Unknown
• “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” -Unknown
• "Peace does not come to people who refuse to declare war on what's destroying them" -Internet
• "'I had to make you uncomfortable, otherwise you would have never moved' -God" -Internet
• “No one is coming to save you.” -Internet
• “Leave an insult on the ground and the owner will come pick it up” -Internet
• “Every "ancient" civilization thought they were modern.” -Internet
• "You cannot give your life more time, so give your time more life" -Internet
• "Anything you lose by being real is fake" -Internet
• "Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room" -Internet
• “Freedom requires the death of every identity built on fear” -Internet
• "Don’t judge yourself by your past. You aren’t there anymore." -Internet
• "Sometimes unfamiliar paths are the ones that take you to the best places" -Internet
• “You become ‘who you are’ when no one is watching” -Internet
• “Worrying is like worshipping the problem.” -Internet
• "Never make a permanent decision based on temporary feelings" -Internet
• “When they say that's impossible, that means it's impossible for them, not for you.” -Internet
• “Be careful what you tolerate, you are teaching people how to treat you.” -Internet
• "Imagine reading a book with no way to turn back the page, how carefully would you read it? That's life.” -Internet
• "A goal without a plan is just a wish" -Internet
• “You must break the pattern today or the loop will repeat tomorrow.” -Internet
• “A head full of fears has no space for dreams” -Internet
• “You don’t react to what you don’t care about” -Internet
• "You inspire me to be nothing like you" -Internet
• "Let go of the illusion that it could have been any different" -Internet
• “Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.” -Internet

non-self or not self implies there being a theoretical self for us to not be, so what is this theoretical self which we aren't; the self which doesn't exist? Could it be fair to say that there is a self but the self is impermanent, and forever undergoing alteration, so its not called self because of that reason?

Or is the self which we are not; considered the same as a soul?

What is the fastest and most convincing way for an open-minded skeptic like me to see a real supernatural phenomenon? (also preferably cheapest, but I'm willing to spend more money if it's high chances that I will be convinced). I consider myself as an agnostic Theravadin Buddhist, so preferably (but not limited to) anything relating to any Buddhist beliefs/practices.

*I am a skeptic yes, but I am NOT here to criticize, ridicule, or disrespect. I hope everyone sees this and any responses as having truly respectful intentions.

No matter how much you obsess over the issue or ideal, even if you never achieve satisfaction or completion of the goal, you inevitably will one day forget, let go, or stop caring about it completely regardless of how well or how horribly you handled it. so why obsess over anything which isn’t important enough to worry about forever? better to let it be sooner rather than later.

*obviously there are a few things which people truly will cling to until the time of their death, but i honestly think assuming we lived longer than a lifetime, it wouldn't take too long for even those few things to eventually become unimportant to us, at the very least those clingings will become much less strong, and the ideal of what is being clung to is likely to become obscured with time.

Assuming I gain a lot of insight in this lifetime, will the following life manifestation be more inclined to learn such things, or will the underlying insight still remain but the person must wait for the inevitable re-discovery?

Can the insight be completely erased at any point in the sequential re-births?

And is any level of insight on cessation of suffering able to help future rebirths more easily find cessation of suffering if at all, or is it only a specific type of insight which will move through multiple lives if at all, like how stream enterers and onwards only have a limited number of rebirths after very specific very deep insights?

Maybe even tens or hundreds of monks which are all completely absorbed in it.

I'm looking for any early Jain accounts of interaction with Buddhism when it first came about, preferably with the Buddha himself, or one of his main disciples like Ananda or someone.

Buddhist scriptures mention Jainism to some extent, and i know they came about from the same time and period, so i'm hoping to learn about Buddhism in a way that is less whitewashed.

Also how accurate are the earliest Jain scriptures estimated to be, is there any evidence of extreme moderate or minimal tampering in them from the time written to the time of now?

I hope nobody takes offense to this, i have no disrespect for Jainism

Post Title Simplified: Is there a realistic Theravadin buddhist practice to reveal anything supernatural without a lifetime of devotion? (skip to bolded parts for clarity)

TL;DR: somebody tells me that if they gave me proof of the supernatural that i wouldn't believe it. I then respond saying this is an inaccurate assumption. The modteam then responds claiming that my response was curt, dismissive, and disrespectful. I asked why, considering that i was only dismissing ones dismissal of me. They claim that i took what they said out of context, without explanation of the proper context, then abruptly turn off replies to their comments. then shadowban me after i provide an unbiased summary of the entire discussion (Claude AI), to which they must not have appreciated what the robot had to say.

Ordinary-Lobster-710

why are you worrying about that stuff. practice the basics. practice mindfulness and meditate for an hour a day. and take it from there

CaptainVulpezz

because if they aren't true, then the buddhas word as put forth in the suttas wouldn't be able to be trusted completely. also if rebirth is real and enlightenment is real, then it would be very important to practice dhamma for the sake of all of my future 'selves'. whereas if rebirth is not true, i wouldn't want to dedicate an entire lifetime or half of one to difficult practices which are against my nature, because of faith in something that may be as real as anything else which is not provable, only for the sake of hoping to find calm and insight whether perfected or not in the latter quarter of my life.

dhammaeye

So you want the result and the proof without any effort. Doesn’t work that way. If it did everyone would be awakened

CaptainVulpezz

i never said without any effort, dont twist my words.

i simply think that it would be an unrealistic expectation to devote my life to something based solely off of faith, even though the reason for which my life would be devoted may never be confirmed, and instead my life has passed me by and i'm somewhat happier, but i put myself through all of that effort for something which may not be real, but yet i keep practicing because thats all that i know now.

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Thai Forest

the path outlined in the pali suttas is true, real and works.

even though i tell you that, and tell you the reasons why i know that. you’ll doubt me. even if i show you evidence of miraculous events articulated with modern day arahants, you’ll doubt that too.

there is actually no degree of proof that would satisfy you except the permanent reduction of your capacity to suffer.

that requires your effort. if you’re not willing to put in that effort, then you’re not tired of suffering yet - you’re not tired of hurting others, and being hurt in return yet.

CaptainVulpezz

you are making a lot of inaccurate assumptions about me

theravada-ModTeam

Keeping discussions aligned with the Noble Path

Please don't respond curtly, rudely and dismissively to people who are trying to help you by answering your questions. This applies to most of your comments in this thread. Take this as your second warning.

CaptainVulpezz

tell me honestly**; how is telling somebody that 'you'll doubt me even if i show you evidence', there is no degree of proof that would satisfy you', in response to my saying 'i wouldn't want to devote my life to something which may not be real' completely fine (not rude or dismissive), and yet my responding to that by saying that they are not true assumptions about me is in fact rude and dismissive? what exactly am i dismissing here other than ones dismissal of what i actually said?**

theravada-ModTeam

Keeping discussions aligned with the Noble Path

You're taking that out of context. You're also projecting some of your own quarrelsomeness onto others. Please reflect on how you come across.

*clear hypocrisy in saying 'you're taking that out of context', and then accusing me of projecting without explaining why or how, and then immediately turning off replies after saying not to respond dismissively or curtly

CaptainVulpezz

u/thereavada-ModTeam tell me what the proper context is then if that is the case instead of turning off your replies after 'responding curtly, & dismissively' to my reasonable question asking for honesty and humility

Then i posted the entire interaction into an ai and asked for an unbiased summary, it then pointed out a few things on both sides, but mostly how their moderation was clearly biased.

To which they responded by removing the unbiased summary (clear indicator of their intentions), then continued to basically shadowban me from the entire subreddit which is honestly filled with great people, but just got unlucky with one biased hypocrite moderating the whole thing.

i'm pretty sure this singular mod has it in for me, based off of many previous interactions with them in particular, i assume they got an idea of me and decided to roll with it like its a fact. and hilariously enough, if i was to expect any subreddit to have regular people moderating, people who aren't corrupted or accusatory, it would definitely be one of Buddhism, which has much wisdom to teach to everybody and anybody.

entire post here: Is there a realistic practice or method which doesn't require extreme dedication for revealing devas or rebirth or kamma or hungry ghosts or anything else supernatural? : r/theravada

in the most possibly concise, comprehensive, dumbed down, universal, objective definition of spirituality, & spiritual, what would you personally expect it to be?

Im so sick of the consistent non-answer avoidant defensive dismissive shifting goalposts accusatory behaviors of religious people. I made this post in r/theravada and only got like 2 kinda answers and a bunch of non-answers where they then disrespect me for asking a simple question without any intentions of disrespect.

Please tell me, am i delusional, am i being disrespectful, or is this seriously to be expected of the vast majority of any religious practitioners?

Is there a realistic practice or method which doesn't require extreme dedication for revealing devas or rebirth or kamma or hungry ghosts or anything else supernatural? : r/theravada