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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I may disagree with religion strongly, but I'm into "spirituality", and it feels like religion came out of something genuine, like they were onto something super meaningful and then it got perverted into a 'set of information and rules about how the world operates.'
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And maybe it wasn't much of a perversion always - maybe the information and rules were just "symbolic structures pointing to the Something Genuine" - but human brains don't work like that, and soon down the line you get awful things like "no being gay or God will smite you"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
This is I think why astrology freaks me out. In the vaguely new-age, psychedelic-users realm, there's a lot of "symbolic structures" beliefs that ride a very blurred line of people taking them seriously and I am super not ok with it. Did we not learn anything from religion?
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Gary Basin
@garybasin
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@Aella_Girl
I often feel the same. Yet, Chesterton's fence n stuff...
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Gary Basin
@garybasin
Viewing the unfathomable wisdom encoded in tradition as God. Great old essay on hermeneutic truth from @NickSzabo4 fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/In
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Carlos
@diprosopia
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@Aella_Girl
Religions have strict rules 'cause they're one of the first mechanisms to organize large human groups in terms of morals and traditions, but they undoubtedly sprout from a sincere experience of te unification with the whole-ness.
Foam, trew to
@TrewToFoam
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@Aella_Girl
This is interesting, thanks, and perhaps it's a different type of astrology (I need to learn more), but I read of some combined christianity and astrology dating to the early 1500's (unless it was poetic license).
Bruce Desjardins
@_Gadzooks_
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@Aella_Girl
The Exploitation of faith or our wonder of beyond us or beyond death, actualy comes from our primitive beginings, and the more we let our intellect out of the equation, the less we realy discover, theology as we know it is totaly eroneous