Irreligious people: what does "sacrality" mean to you? How does that answer affect your behavior?
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I asked in part because I have trouble characterizing my sense of sacredness. Here's my attempt:
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Replying to @kanjun and @_Jose_Miguel_S
I'll try.
For me, "sacrality" describes a way of relating, emphasizing reverence, awe, majesty, transcendence.
Some things reliably exist in this relationship with me: Pale Blue Dot, forests, dancing cellular mechanisms, Falcon stages landing. Most flicker in and out.
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The most intense version of this I get is feelings of human connection across great lengths of time and culture. So reading Plato and finding him worry about silly stuff I worry about, or big concerns. Or laughing at a joke in an early Buddhist text, or in Shakespeare.
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