hot theological take of the week
Nov. 23rd, 2021 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett"international X day" is a modern-day areligious calendar of saints.
(see also my general take on the social function of organised religion as the distilled psychosocial extelligence of 10,000+ years of our ancestors desperately trying to ensure that we don't have to learn all the shit they learned the hard way from scratch... the hard way, from scratch, all over again; and compare "gratitude practice" with "count your blessings")
(see also my general take on the social function of organised religion as the distilled psychosocial extelligence of 10,000+ years of our ancestors desperately trying to ensure that we don't have to learn all the shit they learned the hard way from scratch... the hard way, from scratch, all over again; and compare "gratitude practice" with "count your blessings")
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Date: 2021-11-24 04:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-24 04:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-24 08:47 am (UTC)The whole rebuilding your spiritual practice from scratch is obviously a hot topic in the HPST community and related places. Including in Casper ter Kuile’s book about reinvented rituals The Power of Ritual
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Date: 2021-11-24 11:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-11-24 06:02 pm (UTC)we never did saints but, and perhaps because of that, I feel like if you squint, saints and small gods as seen in Discworld aren't so different. perhaps c.f. the Republican calendar (or is it called that...? the French one.), with the background (I only vaguely know) of saints' days(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-24 06:24 pm (UTC)why did I feel the need to almost doubt its existence?(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-25 08:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
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