if you kick good out of the throne of your spirit,, another egregore appears to take his place choose your egregore wisely is what im saying none of us are free of divinities https://twitter.com/ARossP/status/989819610940747776 …
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Yeah, In all of our "rituals" there is still no supernatural involved. I don't think it's an unclear distinction.
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supernatural as divine ordinance vs supernatural as "things I don't actually believe are happening" ? "I believe in the system" "I believe in the rule of law" "I believe in markets" magic is just another system?
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Well, for starters we can put under the label of supernatural non-material (or material but nonexisting) agents. I just generally worry about equivocating too much when it comes to this sort of bird-eye view metaphors.
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For example - one can argue that "science is a social construct" and so is almost everything else. For specific defs of soc construct it's hard to disagree, but it's also hard to not want mention that science differs in important ways.
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the scientific method (what scientists practice) is a social system (not construct, system) but science has as its domain of inquiry the material world so scientific findings are about matter and we don't have this sort of confusion in that domain
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I'm not sure that's entirely true We make predictions about social systems too And there's a lot of faith about the generalizability of our predictions

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Honestly, I just meant that when grouping things together, even if the grouping points to something interesting and important it can also blur another important distinction - and that's what I think happens when we call secular meaning-making frameworks religions.
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By the way, we could use a good term for meaning-making-framwork, that does not have negative connotations (like ideology) or supernatural-ritual connotations (like religion). I'm out of ideas though.
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