What’s funny is that I came up with this while trying to figure out what all the traditions I like have in common. And the answer was something I always thought I was deeply against.
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Lately I’ve been exploring the idea that methodology (as in science, as in liturgy, as in personal ritual) is incredibly significant. This is kind of perplexing, because I have no theology for this. Actually, my theology is firmly against this.
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Why is methodology so important? Some things that come to mind: Make sure we do *something* Keep us moving Distract from attractive nuisances Shut down runaway behaviors Escape local maxima Return to a known state of mind Synchronize a large or distributed community
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These are all ways a methodology can be beneficial *even if there is no intrinsic benefit to the methodology itself*.
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Catholic - Leader, Liturgy, Literature Orthodox - Liturgy, Leader, Literature Protestant - Literature, Leader, Liturgyhttps://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/1114246972838502401?s=21 …
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Liturgy trains us to overload normal actions with supernormal meaninghttps://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/1128339926305710080?s=20 …
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interested in your take on LDS in this analysis - the young adult mission (living a highly ritualized ascetic life for 1.5-2 years) seems strongly liturgical to me
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but the complaint I encounter most often seems to be too many meetings (leader/literature), not enough ritual
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Oh yeah. The primary lens I’ve seen this through so far is as a kind of “new birth” ritual. A wandering in the wilderness, that cements a group consciousness. Kind of an inverse Rumspringa.https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1191805948584579072?s=21 …
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My guess is that the intense ritualism of the LDS temple has sucked up most of the ritual from routine practice, creating a more organizational climate in the regular church experience.https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1191806262108807168?s=21 …
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that’s really interesting - simultaneous intensification and compartmentalization of ritual
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