Yeah, Julian wanted a Hellenist body that could compete with the Church. Having specific names for our traditions and making them into systematic bodies is counter-counter-religion 101, from Julian's Rome to Hindus in Bali.
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Now one might argue that this can be overdone, making adherents think in improper terms about the tradition. Or maybe a more diffuse 'guerilla' paradigm, i.e. using decentralization and adaptive variation to one's advantage in maintaining/spreading a tradition, would be best...
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I almost read 'blockchain' into this tweet. sorry lol
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Exactly.
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We've always natively seen ourselves as 'Astika' or as John Woodroffe noted, the Astika variant of bhArata dharma
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Makes sense. Sectarianism is cancer in any case.
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