RE: What does religion have to offer?
July 18, 2019 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2019 at 12:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
- and when that doesn’t work, rinse and repeat. It’s not at all different from reciting Buddhist scriptures until a person gets that flash of enlightenment, or leaving offerings to an idol.
Ritual and routine.
They can be small or large, private or public. The psychological benefits of those sorts of behaviors are well researched, but...ofc, not uniformly beneficial. They can become compulsions or obsessions, or other things.
At worst, they become cudgels we use to beat ourselves and others over the head with, or the engine of our own self degradation in feeling that we’ve “done the steps”. That this is somehow some personal failure of our own when we utter the spell and the devil fails to appear.
Ritual and routine.
They can be small or large, private or public. The psychological benefits of those sorts of behaviors are well researched, but...ofc, not uniformly beneficial. They can become compulsions or obsessions, or other things.
At worst, they become cudgels we use to beat ourselves and others over the head with, or the engine of our own self degradation in feeling that we’ve “done the steps”. That this is somehow some personal failure of our own when we utter the spell and the devil fails to appear.
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