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Thus we live in a contemporary world of non-religious people seeking out value (look at the current obsession in Silicon Valley with Stoicism, mindfulness, pysc
by neither_color 5y ago
Thus we live in a contemporary world of non-religious people seeking out value (look at the current obsession in Silicon Valley with Stoicism, mindfulness, pyschadelics, etc). But Silicon Valley also tells their people that they can't use those methods to find an actual belief system of values. It's like, definitely always look for meaning and value in the universe, we like that. But, don't find it and a be bold about it.
Once you're intermittent fasting, microdosing, cutting out meat and/or processed foods from your diet, going on "dopamine fasts" without your phone/PC, avoiding tobacco + alcohol because of the harm it does to your body, choosing the media you watch to avoid negativity, confessing to your therapist regularly, seeking out deeper meaningful relationships with people, meditating every day, etc you might as well be religious.
- dr_dshiv 5y ago> you might as well be religious. Totally. I'm excited about efforts to buy old churches to repurpose them to serve the spiritual and cultural needs like you list. It's like, rationally speaking, we need spiritual wellbeing, but don't need the baggage of the world religions.
- neither_color 5y agoThat’s been tried before, during the French Revolution. It didn’t go so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason
- dr_dshiv 5y agoIf at first you don't succeed at creating secular spirituality...
- HKH2 5y agoYou seem to be presupposing that you can choose to believe, yet is not genuine belief the sum of the thoughts/experiences in one's mind?