Is it too early or late to judge the enlightenment?

[theyear12013]

Just a small correction -- I'm quoted as 2013. Its 12013, because I reject the entire framework of Abrahamic relevance and prominence in human history or that the conversion of Rome is some important milestone in human history we should celebrate. My advocacy for pilgrimage is not for you or the people on this forum who are strong independent thinkers whose seeds of nonbelief possibly grew on stony soil, my advocacy is about society and those who require rich and deep soil to survive. Many Atheists in the world like Dawkins dismiss ritual and community aspects of religion at their peril IMHO. How else do you explain the resurgence of Abrahamic faith in the US, in the Muslim world, in Israel? If you don't build alternatives to compete with them not just on the basis of rational individual utility but with ritual, pilgrimage, community, the calendar system etc -- how will you truly displace them? There is a way to do it without recreating a fascist outlook. Its the holy site of questioning, where you don't go to worship the Earth or evolution or the stars, but to stand in awe that we exist at all in any of it and have survived this long and have just started to truly figure it out.

2013 wrote: pilgrimage is part of the human species

Not for everybody. What the fuck for? It is a monumentally dumb-ass idea on the face of it. Nothing is sacred. Nothing should be sacred. The very idea of the sacred is devaluing to us as human beings.

Each other is all we have, or ever will have. It would serve us all well to treat each other accordingly.

To Mao Tse Troll:

Even if we achieve gigantic successes in our work, there is no reason whatsoever to feel conceited and arrogant. Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind. This is a truth we must always bear in mind. -Chairman Mao

Seeing as you have achieved nothing but fail, you really have nada to feel arrogant aboutt. Don't go away mad, just go away.