How do you all feel about Omnism?? Is it logically disfunctional to accept a continually evolving spectrum of inspirations, interpretations, symbols, and rituals from ALL cultures and religions of the world, so long as they maintain personal usage? I mean, what is ritual but rehearsal? And what is rehearsal but routine practice? After all, skyscrapers and smartphones would never have been able to come into existance without the day-in and day-out of time dependent human ritual. I believe that the pluralistic nature of the broader human psychology is what allows us to think freely and make choices, thus allowing for our species to develop more sophisticated and mature ways of living. This last bit is probably me going out on a limb here, but maybe by some simulated time constraint, i.e. reproductive processes, people of the future inevitably have "more freewill". Freewill being merely a measure of choice option numbers.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I misread that at first and thought you asked what do I think of Onanism, to which my answer would have been "each to his or her own"
LenHazell53
Level 9
Dec 18, 2019
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It depends what you mean by Omnism, there are several alternatives, but to address some.
If you go into the restaurant and try to eat everything on the menu you will make yourself ill.
If you go into a restaurant and say, do not show me the menu, anything will do, you are foolish. (We are defined by our choices not by our endurance of everything thrown at us.)
And if you tell your friends that they can eat well in every restaurant in town, they will get food poisoning. Not everything served in all restaurants is safe or wholesome.
If you tell your friends that, MOST of the restaurants in town serve at least one thing that is good, and that you should be polite and respectful when viewing any menu. Then are are perhaps wise.
To quote R. Dawkins for once. "If your mind is too open, your brains will fall out."
Fernapple
Level 9
Dec 18, 2019
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No, of course no one should eat everything up at once. That's impossible. The point is acceptance of people's diversities so long as they are relatively harmless and not too extreme. I'm not gonna put someone down for being born of a family with peanut allergies or diabetes. I get that. What I am suggesting is people follow their own tastes if that's what brings them happiness and health. After all, you can't force feed a shark lettuce.
@FiliusInfernum Yes I think that is more or less the same as my fifth para, just avove the Dawkins quote.
It seems perfectly logical to accept all cultures, and to glean useful ideas from them. We have a lot more in common than is realized. We only notice the differences but those differences are small and insignificant.
So far as religion, Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy describes concepts that practically all religions hold in common, and many non religious people espouse some of those thoughts also. Again, we take note of insignificant differences while ignoring the basic human situation of awareness, wonder and awe in a starkly mysterious and magnificent reality.
WilliamFleming
Level 8
Dec 18, 2019
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I see no problem with Omnism. To embrace all seems a reasonable position in a diverse world.
Not sure what you mean about ritual being a rehearsal. Rehearsal implies an eventual outcome whereas ritual, in a religious context, is the outcome in itself.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Dec 18, 2019
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Rituals are derived from a prescribed order, essentially a recipe. The ingredients and directions for this recipe are an amalgamation of human traditions that have been handed down throughout history. Of course, ritual is strictly personal and widely subjective for the most part... The traditions, however, are historically objective.
@FiliusInfernum Correct. They are the glue which perpetuate the cultures cosmology and world view.
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