(December 26, 2015 at 5:36 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 7:24 am)Little Rik Wrote: Something doesn't really work in your pinky brain.
Look at here beanie.
It say..................
.........The English word "ritual" derives from the Latin ritualis, "that which pertains to rite (ritus)". In Roman juridical and religious usage, ritus was the proven way (mos) of doing something,[5] or "correct performance, custom".[6] The original concept of ritus may be related to the Sanskrit ṛtá ("visible order)" in Vedic religion, "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure of cosmic, worldly, human and ritual events".[7] The word "ritual" is first recorded in English in 1570, and came into use in the 1600s to mean "the prescribed order of performing religious services" or more particularly a book of these prescriptions.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual
As you can see was in the 1600 in England that the word ritual was only associate with religion.
Before that his meaning was a lot more broad to indicate almost anything.
So if you really wish to go along with the English imported meaning and not with the original meaning i could also say that you follow a religion.
You dress in pink, you wear a beanie, you act like a clown and so on.
You follow religion beanie.
Your religion is a religion beanie.
I think that what I've said here makes it very plain what I mean when I use words like "routine," "ritual," and "religion," Rik. Clearly I've overestimated your ability to comprehend what I've typed, and/or you're just being contrary about semantics because you think squibbling over every little detail of every little word somehow excuses you from having to say anything substantial.
Yes, the word "ritual" can be used colloquially to describe anything one does every day. Getting dressed, grooming one's beard, brushing one's teeth could still be referred to as "rituals" without having any spiritual context.
That definition, however, only serves to confuse the language in this conversation because we're having a discussion about people's religious/spiritual beliefs; this is why I distinguished "routines" (daily, repeated actions or series of actions with no intended spiritual context) from "rituals" (daily, repeated actions or series of actions committed with the intent to involve/expand one's "spirit").
For the remainder of this conversation, if you see me use the word "ritual," you may assume I'm using a spiritual/religious definition of the word, and if you see me use the word "routine," I'm not talking about religion or spirituality at all. Clear? Probably not.
So again, Rik, the point is that you + yoga + Gaud = Religion
I think you know what I'm gonna say next, lest I repeat myself yet again.
Now you really float in a pool of mud.
You got lost beanie.
1) In religions there is no intent to expand except in a very limited number of Buddhists and Hinduists that
follow some spirituality.
I would say that 99% of religion today only pray in order to get some favors from God so NO.
NO expansion of whatsoever and this show your total lack of understanding as far as the difference between religions and spirituality is concern.
You keep on making no distinction when in fact there is a big big distinction.
2) Here again we go with your bullshit rituals.
I breathe all the time so i perform a ritual.
Am i a religious person then?
For Christ sake beanie stop your crap.
