by Terry 22 Replies latest jw friends
If i didn't know better, I would be extremely concerned that you have been looking through my window. You forgot to mention that this very special ritual must be performed nude....except for the douche-bag tied around your head. A Foster farms, chicken droppings colored bag is best...which can be acquired on Terry's website. Sadly, he over charges.
Over charge?! These are natural and organic!! Not synthetic chicken droppings!
I am a skeptic at heart. But I have seen the power of belief and ritual in action. Poo-poo it if you like, but it moves the human heart. And something as powerful as that, I intend to make use of.
Think of it this way. It is hard to be moved by something we hold to be without merit. Once we validate something it becomes de facto valuable. Belief is the act of labeling things valuable without regard to actual content.
make up a really silly ritual such as rubbing an egg on your crotch and belching three times while saying aloud: TAILS, TAILS, TAILS.....If i didn't know better, I would be extremely concerned that you have been looking through my window. You forgot to mention that this very special ritual must be performed nude....except for the douche-bag tied around your head. A Foster farms, chicken droppings colored bag is best...which can be acquired on Terry's website. Sadly, he over charges. The pink ones are cheep though, but they don't conjure up the same exquisite results when wishing for tails. Pink may be good for other things though. I haven't investigated too deeply as this is all pretty new to me. I'm hoping to find a website devoted only to douche-bag color experimentation. Perhaps I should start one.
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OMFG jt ! Master philosopher and comedian! Wow!
Belief is the act of labeling things valuable without regard to actual content.
There are more shades, degrees, levels to this than you give credit.
There are more shades, degrees, levels to this than you give credit.
I'm eager for instantiation.
Examples would be nice.
I'm eager for instantiation.
Examples would be nice.
LOL!! Well, there's the rub now, isn't it? I could no easier prove it to you than a nun could prove to me that Jesus is her lover.
LOL!! Well, there's the rub now, isn't it? I could no easier prove it to you than a nun could prove to me that Jesus is her lover.
A gynecologist perhaps?
Terry,
You might find Karen Armstrong's the Battle for God an interesting read. She's along your thought line and the book is a bit off the main topic here, but she really explains the Mythos vs the Logos very well. Also they do not always have to be at odds. They both have place in the collective human psyche.
Anyway, that's all I got to say about that.
Good post!
~Brigid, the unabashed psycho-drama thespian queen to the end!
As I was reading the above posts, the nasty idea of chaining Terry to an armchair in a movie theater and have him watch the complete works of Andrei Tarkovsky came to my mind...
Terry, I'd submit thatwhat you describe of "religion" and "ritual" and "superstition" is actually eudemonism. It's a real and important part of it, but it is only the surface.
On edit: I'll throw into the discussion the following unusual (but possible) translation of Mark 11:22ff (after the fig tree episode):
Have a god's faith. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will happen to you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will happen to you.
- an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn- Eudemonism is a philosophy that defines right action as that which leads to "well being." The concept originates in Aristotle's Ethics. In Aristotle eudemonism means that all correct actions lead to the greater well being of the individual human. By extending well being from the narrowest concerns to the largest, all social rules can be adduced. Augustine of Hippo adopted the concept as beatitudo, and Thomas Aquinas worked it out into a Christian ethical scheme. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudemonism
Whew! I saw the word "demon" lurking there and thought I'd really pissed Narkissos off.
EuDEMONism.
