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February 19, 2005
Response to Mat
I’ve now had extremely stimulating conversations about religion with several people, especially Mat and Layla.
Firstly, Mat elucidated the initiation thing. There are many different ways to look at it, some wrong ways being “to fit in” and “to establish a moral system.” I am apparently a moral relativist, because I think that everyone’s actions are based on what they think is the best thing to do at the time, or else they’re just not thinking for one reason or another, and I don’t think anyone has a God’s eye view. So I’m not interested in it from the point of view of establishing moral systems. I do like it because it’s a commitment to become a better person, and I think that it can trigger a personal transformation. As for fitting in, I want neither to become a drone nor to become one of those guys with some weird internally-consistent wacko crap religion (customers of my company, by the way.) It would be nice, I think, to have a few other people to talk to about your religion, and not have it be a cult, and neither have it be some huge thing.
Sad that the choices seem to be personal crap, cult, or mass hypnosis crap, because none of those sound particularly rewarding. Of course, neither does the Sunday potluck society known as the Unitarian Universalist church.
I’m too tired to finish this post now, so I’ll try and pick it up later. Which means I probably won’t.
I got an iPod Shuffle. >-D!
Posted by FusionGyro at February 19, 2005 12:42 AM
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