1 I understood all your words just fine. They were just a mash up of nonsense. Youre also completely changing your tune here, which is wise. You said "theyre a structural component to higher order complexity." Odd then that humans who don't partake in rituals are able to
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2 function at high orders of complexity just fine. Its almost like they arent actually a necessary structural component.
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Your changed position is equally nonsensical by the way. How on earth do complicated useless rituals simplify things?
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Is simplification the goal in life? Rituals enrich life. They imbue meaning to things, which is good because people work better together when they share a sense of purpose.
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I am replying to what he said. He said they simplify things. What you say is equally nonsensical. A ritual does not objectively imbue "meaning" into anything, its all in your head my friend. People can work together better when they share a purpose, make it a real one.
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They do simplify things. The complexity of the ritual is to imprint a memory within the participants. It acts as a symbolic boundary which shifts the fundamental nature of social reality. After that, everything is simpler.
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But come, try to actually answer my previous critiques, rather than resort to ad hominem. Ill give you some new ones as well. By what objective, observable, measurable mechanism do complex rituals imprint memories within participants?
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How does a "symbolic boundary" shift the fundamental nature of social reality? Again, what mechanism? What peer reviewed sources can you cite to show that it "makes everything simpler" (and how would that be measured)?
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@GPSolomon do you think it's good for kids to play made-up games with each other, insofar as it leads to more success in relationships later in life?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
What do you mean by made up games?
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Well I mean kids invent their own games from imagination or a from a pre-existing game like tag. They play for fun, and possibly for a winner. Would you agree that this establishes in the participant values that are true and good for a greater set of interactions?
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