the meta-simulation hypothesis is that any ideology which wants to grow past a certain point will eventually come to simulate every aspect of a regular ol’ religion on its own terms
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the X-shaped holes will all get filled one way or another
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this helped clarify a dynamic for me. in the same way there's a "god-shaped hole," there are "X-shaped holes" for X a bunch of deep, fundamental concepts like sin, and any sufficiently mature ideology eventually adapts to fill these holes one way or the other t.co/k5hg64eKrP
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you can view the simulation hypothesis itself as an example of this (hence the name), a variant of “veil of maya / material world is an illusion / living in a god’s dream”-type mysticism specifically memetically adapted for The Digital Age
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Was watching a bunch of church sermon footage on YouTube for unrelated research purposes and I was struck by how much and how clearly religion fulfills a role in people’s lives that almost by-definition cannot be provided by mainstream secular spaces
Taylor Swift is a religion
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who is your kin? to whom and to what do you give your heart? this has to be earned & demonstrated via ritual sacrifice, of time/effort if nothing else
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There's a good book on this called "Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World"
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any sufficiently mature ideology contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, hard-to-update implementation of zoroastrianism
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sorta kinda? There are a few ways to do religion.
now, it's hard to maintain some of those, since the "learn about the religion" instead of "be the religion" types of religions have big power games and hierarchies-
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Thus they tend to dominate the field (like christianity post 3rd century solidification. Or most buddhisms, etc)
but the religious impulse/need isn't directly tied to that style of authority based religious practice.