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Why??????? Mercifully, being free of religious encumbrances means being free of ritual and other pointless prescriptions. If someone really needs the 'comfort'
by tomc1985 9y ago
Why??????? Mercifully, being free of religious encumbrances means being free of ritual and other pointless prescriptions.
If someone really needs the 'comfort' of a ritual so badly, they can make their own, though, to me, allowing oneself to be bossed around by something as mechanistic as prescribed rituals screams of contradiction.
It is sad that so few can stand emptiness, or boredom, or silence, and that they feel the need to fill up otherwise perfectly good space and time with fruitless endeavors just to be comfortable.
- sewercake 9y agoI don't know how I feel about the approach presented in the article, but there's a big difference between a personal ritual and one shared and practiced by a community writ-large. This firm seems to be focusing on the latter.
- tomc1985 9y agoBoth are pointless, and religion overwhelming sells the latter
- toasterlovin 9y agoThey are pointless to you. Their universality points to their importance to humans, in general. I mean, one of the key markers of our species is that we ritually dispose of our dead. That feature of humanity goes back hundreds of thousands of years and it evolved.
- tomc1985 9y agoIt is ritual attached to function. We also non-ritualistically bury our dead. Ritual, alone, is fine. But human beings inevitably have to impose their BS on other people, who don't always agree or want what is being imposed. If the ritual-followers could keep to themselves that would be one thing. But no, its 'ooooh you must share in this!'
- trav4225 9y ago"human beings inevitably have to impose their BS on other people" Welcome to planet Earth! ;-) Humans do this with everything, regardless of whether they are sincere believers, religious zealots, strident atheists, or Silicon Valley humanists. :-)