Christmas is aesthetically catastrophic. The lights are mostly ok, but everything else is garish, mishapen. Trees dying in your apartments, brain dead sing song blaring from every speaker, inane symbolism long unmoored from any spiritual roots. Wake me when it's over.
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Thanksgiving makes at least sense (it's the day when Americans are grateful that the natives did not have a military). But XMas™ seems fully colonized by an unsustainable layer of distorted memes and cultural habits that do not allow any connection to healthy spiritual roots.
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Replying to @Plinz
Joscha, I am interested in your definition of 'healthy spiritual roots'. What is healthy about about celebrating the birthday of a perceived demigod.
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Replying to @HarryBr55145341
Ok. In Abramic religion, God is the representation of the superorganism (~state) that emerges over the coordinated interaction of the faithful. God is a harsh monster that does not care if the individual gets squished in its service. Jesus represents the injection of humanism.
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But Abramic religions are built on a foundation of falsehood, so by simply ignoring that representation of a harsh god we have no need for the compassionate Christ. Therefore are we better off not celebrating the modern non religious version of xmas? We can find compassion in e/o
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Replying to @HarryBr55145341
No, they are not built on falsehood. The mythology has the correct shape, ie its models are isomorphic to the desired specification of coordination in a stable agrarian society. Is only false if you require peasants to understand cosmology, which you don’t.
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OK, the books might have been a good manual for that civilization, but we are no longer an agrarian society so it is false from a modern perspective. So I am failing to understand how following xmas in 2019 would be a healthy spiritual experience?
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When we lost religion, we realized that rationalism is fascist and cannot carry us. We became romantic, which means we replaced God with Love, but the ship falls apart. The question of how to solve the crisis of meaning without bringing back religion is still unresolved.
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Replying to @Plinz @HarryBr55145341
Could you not also argue that rationalism leads to nihilism or apatheism? And do you think that humanism contradicts the 'greater whole/good'. Sounds like a moral dilemma. I guess that's what you meant with 'skip biggest problem'...
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No, the advice to skip your biggest problem is just a generic heuristic for mental issues. The thing that you consider your biggest problem is something that you could not solve in the past, so it may not have a solution, because the problem is elsewhere.
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