RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 18, 2018 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 1:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Are you concerned that..in his novel approach of calling that religion..he might lose the majority of religion, or the pulse, if you will..and be talking about something else instead? t the beginnig, removing the cultural artifacts...that;s a hel of alot of the substance of what we take the term religion to sensibly mean or refer to. Is it really still religion when you remove all of that, and the gods too?
The value of an lsd induced "religious" experience is, in that paradigm, functionally equivalent. A sudden experience of the numinous can be..and often must be distinguished from "religion" - as they aren't in any way limited to religious people and obviously don;t always refer to anything we'd otherwise consider a religion.
We had a thread..can't remember if it was before you came or after..but it was a "what is sacred to you" thread...atheists weren't short on answers. I know I'm not. I can manufacture that feeling with such intensity and reliability that I like to joke with people about having found zen at the bottom of a hole. I put in the work, it's not actually natural talent. Part of therapy.
That religion..specifically christianity, is recognizable in comparison to stoicism is unsurprising...they cribbed a bunch of it when they wrote magic book.
The value of an lsd induced "religious" experience is, in that paradigm, functionally equivalent. A sudden experience of the numinous can be..and often must be distinguished from "religion" - as they aren't in any way limited to religious people and obviously don;t always refer to anything we'd otherwise consider a religion.
We had a thread..can't remember if it was before you came or after..but it was a "what is sacred to you" thread...atheists weren't short on answers. I know I'm not. I can manufacture that feeling with such intensity and reliability that I like to joke with people about having found zen at the bottom of a hole. I put in the work, it's not actually natural talent. Part of therapy.
That religion..specifically christianity, is recognizable in comparison to stoicism is unsurprising...they cribbed a bunch of it when they wrote magic book.
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