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Yegge is probably fully aware of the well-worn philosophical implications of this line of inquiry; he is, after all, a self-proclaimed fan of Douglas Hofstadter, whose almost mystical ruminations on the nature of recursion and embeddedness in Gödel, Escher, Bach are a metaphysical classic in the computer-geek canon.  Seeing oneself as a creature in an embedded system attempting to perceive the workings of the "outer system" - to look through the one-way-wall the other way - has forever been a preoccupation of intelligent and spiritually-inclined seekers.

I would submit, contra Baudrillard, that while we denizens of the internet may today experience an unprecedented degree of abstraction, humanity has never inhabited a space other than one populated by self-created simulacra, and that indeed, the simulacrum has always been the very nature of the worldview of every individual who has ever lived.  For the human brain is itself an embedded system, fed information through a one-way wall (our sensory input) and developing a model of the world outside to the best of our abilities and according to our internal propensities.

Human communities are also an embedded system, one in which individuals reside, and they share a pool of common assumptions about the world (myths) and the "rules" by which we participate in it, refining and elaborating on the individual's innate sense of right and wrong.  Much like cells organizing themselves in a human body, or ants in a colony, all of human civilization and culture -- indeed all human achievement -- is built up of thousands of individual decisions within a socially prescribed rule system.  Such self-emergent organization -- whereby progressively more complex, richly varied systems construct themselves from a few basic rules -- is very appealing to computer geeks, who can create such embedded systems on their computers with just a few lines of recursive code, like this 1-dimensional cellular automaton:

This ties into a conversation I was having the other day with a colleague who had just finished reading another computer-geek classic, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near.  Kurzweil's work of Utopian fantasy is popular among geeks, since it promises a future world (not too distant, either: according to his projections, within the next 50 years) in which technology will become sufficiently advanced that computer intelligence will outpace human intelligence.

What happens beyond this point is impossible to say, but according to Kurzweil's theory, machine intelligence will recursively create new machines with rapidly accelerating intelligence, Very Cheap Tramadol, which may (among other things) provide capabilities for human immortality, interstellar space travel, or perhaps even, one day, create nanobots that will transform the nature of matter and reality so that all matter will reach a point of "supersaturation" in which the entire universe becomes a gigantic supercomputer.  This event is called the singularity, also known as "nerd rapture".

To which I replied: What if the singularity has already happened?  How would you know, no prescription tramadol online legally.

Singularity speculation (in its modern form) began in 1965 with J. L. Good, but was eagerly adopted in the post-psychedelic era by early transhumanist and Harvard psychologist Dr. Timothy Leary in his eccentric 1979 book The Game of Life, in which he uses the Tarot, the I Ching, Kundalini Yoga, and various other esoteric traditions as metaphors for a projected evolution of life (and accompanying stages in the development of individual consciousness), beginning with single-celled organisms and progressing through fish, lizards, mammals, apes, primitive humans, early civilizations, monarchies, and monotheism, then stepping into increasingly liberated states of self-awareness, reality fabrication, DNA manipulation, and atomic, gravitational, and quantum manipulation, into the final payoff, Tramadol Caps 50mg, fusion into a black hole, which in turn creates a new universe.  (Paul Davies also alludes to this possibility, that new universes could be spawned by sufficiently advanced technology.)

The key insight that Leary brings to this fantasy is one of cyclical motion: once a new universe is spawned, the cycle begins anew, for new worlds and new civilizations to repeat this journey.  Indeed, for Leary, each stage of evolution goes through a three-stage cycle of birth, maturation, and decay before leading into the next stage.  This reflects the notion of a cyclical universe in Hindu cosmology, which however sees the course of civilization as one destined toward decay and destruction rather than a state of perfection.  In the Hindu view, it is the individual life that re-enters again and again in new forms to attempt to climb the ladder to liberation. No prescription tramadol online legally, In any event, the key ingredient to this timely yet ancient cosmology -- recursion -- leads us to the insight that no matter the ultimate direction of history or the universe, we exist only in a single moment, a point in motion, brought here by events outside our control and to be swept away by forces outside our control, in death and decay.  We act out our parts as best we can, knowing that we are subsumed in the eternal flux of creation and destruction that define all existence.

This problem is present in all cosmologies (including the modern scientific one), and it's a crucial weakness for the monothestic/Judeo-Christian view, which sees an eternally static Creator God "zapping" the world and time into existence exactly as we see it today, then just as abruptly, destroying it all in a raging fire, whisking his faithful off to eternal, static bliss.  I find this view of the universe pitifully unimaginative and lacking a key ingredient: sacred union, from which we derive imbalance, from which comes change, repetition, recursion, and eternity.  The Judeo-Christian god is deeply flawed for lacking (or, more truthfully, denying) a creative feminine force, which drives this change and evolution.

In fact, to reconcile this problem, Kabbalistic thinkers have developed the idea of tzimtzum: that, in order to make room for creation, the omnipresent God had to withdraw from a part of himself, leaving himself imperfect.  Thus even Yahweh seeks a mystical union with his own creation.  In any event, Cheap Tramadol Fedex Overnight, we know from experience that the nature of reality is the paradox of eternal change, and yet in common Christian thought Yahweh immaturely seeks to deny this, asserting the immutability of his own personality and ego.  (Gary Snyder reports a Mahayana Buddhist commenting, "He needs to do more meditation.")

A frequent counter to the idea of an "unmoved mover" god is the question: well, where did God come from, then?  The answer, "I am that I am", is true yet unsatisfying; this is not the petty, adolescent, egotistical, tribal Yahweh-god but his Mother - the primordial Void, the backdrop in which the creator God appears - talking.  Here's Jesus, emerging from Mother-God's vagina, represented as a Mandorla:

That's more like it!  Every cause must have a cause, and this leads us into a state of "turtles-all-the-way-down", or infinite recursion, which may as well be an eternal cycle, represented as the self-devouring serpent ouroboros:

The ultimate, all-encompassing religious expression of this concept is contained within this modern image of the Tibetan Buddhist Dharmapala (dharma-protector) Mahakala:

Here, the Great Time-Lord Mahakala advances through time in a blaze of activity, through all dimensions, in perpetual combat with himself as he generates adversaries (his own image) and slaughters and devours them, thereby regenerating himself.  His myriad arms, at once swords and wings, cradle in their clawed hands Bodhisattvas (saints and future Buddhas).  From this eternal recursive creation-destruction, all forms are generated (symbolized in the tiger skin, the leopard prints, the octopus tentacles, the various faces... well, What Is Tramadol Used For, keep looking, you'll see).  The two tracks of infinitely-receding adversary heads are joined in an earring which points to the empty heart of the beast, the Void.  Yet in his hands, amid the fires and the creation and the death and destruction, he protects in a delicate (vaginal/Mandorla-like) clamshell the central Mystery of the sacred union, Yabyum: the eternal, dark Buddha making love to his own ephemeral feminine nature, enraptured in the embrace of the beloved.

In the distance stand other Buddhas, Dharmapalas, and various demons: the Dharmapala replicated, again, across yet other dimensions (other universes, perhaps?).

The lesson that the Dharmapala brings to us is this: wherever you are, whatever you are doing, all things are in flux.  There is always change, there is no Utopian state of perfection, for creation and destruction are intertwined.  Fighting through the one-way wall, stepping out of the matrix, you find yourself in another matrix, and you cannot escape.  Concentrate therefore on the center, this fusion of opposites, from which all things flow, and you will inhabit at once all levels of existence; the nested shells of all matrices outward and inward come into focus, and you see them line up in eternal recursion in all dimensions for all time.  This is Moksha, liberation.

In the meantime, humanity will continue to attempt to construct a utopia out of machines.  It's what we do, worker bees that we are. Futile though it is, it's in our nature.  It is clear that while we may construct bigger and more fantastic fishtanks for ourselves, Ultram Overdose, we cannot escape fishtank existence.  But perhaps we don't really want to.

No matter.  Onward.  Upward.  Inward.  Outward.  Always.

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...But even if [the Enemy] defeats your first attempts at misdirection, we have a subtler weapon.  The humans do not start from that direct perception of Him which we, unhappily, paypal tramadol online cheap, cannot avoid.  They have never known that ghastly luminosity, that stabbing and searing glare which makes the background of permanent pain in our lives.  If you look into your patient's mind when he is praying, you will not find that.  If you examine the object to which he is attending, you will find that it is a composite object containing many quite ridiculous ingredients.  There will be images derived from pictures of the Enemy as He appeared during the discreditable episode known as the Incarnation; there will be vaguer -- perhaps quite savage and puerile -- images associated with the other two Persons.  There will even be some of his own reverence (and of bodily sensations accompanying it) objectified and attributed to the object revered.  I have known cases where what the patient called his "God" was actually located -- up and to the left at the corner of the bedroom ceiling, or inside his own head, or in a crucifix on the wall.  But whatever the nature of the composite object, you must keep him praying to it -- to the thing that he has made, not the Person who has made him.  You may even encourage him to attach great importance to the correction and improvement of this composite object, and to keeping it steadily before his imagination during the whole prayer.  For if he ever comes to make the distinction, if he ever consciously directs his prayers "Not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest thyself to be," our situation is, for the moment, Does Ultram Cause Weight Gain, desperate.  Once all his thoughts and images have been flung aside or, if retained, retained with a full recognition of their merely subjective nature, and if the man trusts himself to the completely real, eternal, invisible Presence, there with him in the room and never knowable by him as he is known by it -- why, then it is that the incalculable may occur.  In avoiding this situation -- this real nakedness of the soul in prayer -- you will be helped by the fact that the humans themselves do not desire it as much as they suppose.  There's such a thing as getting more than they bargained for!

To which the Tibetan Book of the Dead (only discovered, alas, years later) has the answer:

Alas. when the Uncertain Experiencing of Reality is dawning upon me here,
With every thought of fear or terror or awe for all [apparitional appearances] set aside,
May I recognize whatever [visions] appear, as the reflections of mine own consciousness;
May I know them to be of the nature of apparitions in the Bardo:
When at this all-important moment [of opportunity] of achieving a great end,
May I not fear the bands of Peaceful and Wrathful [Deities], mine own thought-forms.

Repeat thou these [verses] clearly, and remembering their significance as thou repeatest them, go forwards, [O nobly-born], buy tramadol online. Thereby, whatever visions of awe or terror appear, recognition is certain; and forget not this vital secret art lying therein.

O nobly-born, Buy Hydrochloride Tramadol, when thy body and mind were separating, thou must have experienced a glimpse of the Pure Truth, subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious, and radiantly awesome, in appearance like a mirage moving across a landscape in spring-time in one continuous stream of vibrations. Be not daunted thereby, nor terrified, nor awed. Generic tramadol online without prescription, That is the radiance of thine own true nature. Buy tramadol online, Recognize it.

From the midst of that radiance, the natural sound of Reality, reverberating like a thousand thunders simultaneously sounding, will come. That is the natural sound of thine own real self. Be not daunted thereby, nor terrified, nor awed.

Whatever I think God is, can be nothing other than my own creation.  This goes for you too, Christianity.  Like all religions, you are an apparition of human creation.  Like everything that is, you are a figure on the unknowable ground of Reality, and by the mere fact of your existence, What Drug Class Is Tramadol, you carry the germ of the Divine.

But I'm sorry, I have to tell you this: Just about everything you do, Buddhism does as well or better.  Just sayin'.

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No rx tramadol online no rx, President-elect Barack Obama has ignited a firestorm over his invitation of Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation prayer at his inauguration on January 20.  Many pro-gay rights Obama supporters feel disgusted and betrayed by this choice, viewing Obama's invitation as a tacit endorsement of Warren's anti-homosexual views.  Protest groups are popping up on Facebook, and gay bloggers such as Dan Savage, John Aravosis, Pam Spaulding, and Rachel Maddow are up in arms.

It's not that I can't relate.   People concerned with equality and civil liberties have every right to take Warren to task for his views.  However, I think the degree of despair and outrage is perhaps somewhat overblown, and the people who feel that Obama has betrayed his gay and gay-friendly supporters by this invitation might want to take a second look before jumping back into the comfortable rut of knee-jerk cynicism.

Rick Warren has many faults.  A conservative Christian and bestselling author of The Purpose-Drive Life, Warren has a huge national audience and has been a key supporter in mobilizing his California-based church community to turn out for Proposition 8, which cheapened marriage by tearing apart loving families and adult soulmates who just want a quiet domestic life like normal people.  (Arguments against gay marriage that equate it with incest or pedophilia are deeply flawed.  Gay marriage does not grant new rights to anyone who could not get married already, it simply permits anyone who could get married already to marry anyone else who could also get married already.  Marriage remains the domain of consenting adult humans.  When it comes down to it, it's just not as radical a change as some make it out to be.)  Besides being a homophobe, Rick Warren is anti-woman and a young-earth Creationist with a problematic relationship to science.

But there's more to this picture than the cookie-cutter battle between right-wing bigots and the people they oppress.  I'm afraid people on both sides have oversimplified this controversy by failing to see the complexity inherent in the situation.  And so, I think some additional information that often gets overlooked might help to put this in perspective.

First of all, Warren's role at the inauguration has been greatly exaggerated.  He's been called "the prime-time player".  While Warren is indeed giving the opening prayer, he's not the only one praying at the ceremony.  Arguably more important is the role given to civil rights legend (and fierce gay-rights supporter) Rev. Joe Lowery, who is giving the benediction: the closing blessing, the prayer that truly sets the tone for the new administration, which bookends Warren's mainstream conservative views.  How do you think Rick Warren will feel going on after the San Francisco Boys' Chorus, or when Aretha Franklin takes the stage immediately after him?  Take a look at the event schedule for the day, and you'll quickly see that Warren's voice is merely one of many, a voice representing the formidable constituency of conservative Christianity in this country.  No matter how much we disagree with them, Mg Tramadol, excluding them doesn't make them go away; they're a part of this country too, and this invitation says that Obama won't treat them the way they treated us when they were in power.

Moreover, unlike traditional right-wing asshats such as James Dobson, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson, Rick Warren is a great choice to represent conservative Christians.  He has shown an openness to dialogue and a willingness to both listen to and work with people who disagree with him.  Not only has he drawn fire from the Left, he has been harshly criticized by many on the Right.  In a 2006 article titled "Why is Obama's evil in Rick Warren's pulpit?", WorldNetDaily commentator Kevin McCollough criticized Warren for inviting Obama to speak at his church, saying:

...Warren is ready to turn over the spiritual mantle to a man [Obama] who represents the views of Satan at worst or progressive anti-God liberals at best in most of his public positions on the greatest moral tests of our time.

Contrast that with a current screed against Rick Warren, coming from People for the American Way's Kathryn Kolbert:

...The sad truth is that this decision further elevates someone who has in recent weeks actively promoted legalized discrimination and denigrated the lives and relationships of millions of Americans. No rx tramadol online no rx, Rick Warren gets plenty of attention through his books and media appearances. He doesn't need or deserve this position of honor. There is no shortage of religious leaders who reflect the values on which President-elect Obama campaigned and who are working to advance the common good.

Though Kolbert's rhetoric is much milder in tone (for instance, she's not associating anyone with Satan), there's an astonishing similarity in the fundamentalist rhetoric on the Left and on the Right.  That's because there's a deep psychological similarity to all mindsets that shut out dissenting viewpoints.  These disagreements are not rational, they are emotional, and these reactions are indicative of people letting their emotions get the best of them.

Obama's own response to this controversy has frequently been dismissed out-of-hand, but I think it's worth taking a minute to parse:

 I think that it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It is something that I have been consistent on, and something that I intend to continue to be consistent on during my presidency.

What I've also said is that it is important for America to come together, even though we may have disagreements on certain social issues, no rx tramadol online no rx. And I would note that a couple of years ago, Acetaminophen Hcl Par Tramadol, I was invited to Rick Warren's church to speak, despite his awareness that I held views that were entirely contrary to his when it came to gay and lesbian rights, when it came to issues like abortion. Nevertheless, I had an opportunity to speak. And that dialogue, I think, is part of what my campaign's been all about; that we're not going to agree on every single issue, but what we have to do is to be able to create an atmosphere when we -- where we can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans.

So Rick Warren has been invited to speak. No rx tramadol online no rx, Dr. Joseph Lowery, who has deeply contrasting views to Rick Warren on a whole host of issues, is also speaking. During the course of the entire inaugural festivities, there are going to be a wide range of viewpoints that are presented. And that's how it should be, because that's what America's about. That's part of the magic of this country, is that we are diverse and noisy and opinionated. And so, you know, that's the spirit in which, you know, we have put together what I think will be a terrific inauguration, no rx tramadol online no rx. And that's, hopefully, Online tramadol from canada, going to be a spirit that carries over into my administration.

Read what he said: giving people an opportunity to speak, listening to their concerns.  Because, like it or not, agree with them or not, opponents to gay rights have deep-seated emotional concerns that are only going to get worse by yelling at them, telling them they're wrong and they need to shut up.   Nobody reacts positively to that.  It feels good, but it's completely unproductive.  Do what you're going to do.  Live your life as you see fit, and don't let them tell you what to do, don't apologize for yourself for a second or let them hold dominion over you.  But at the same time, see them with pity, not with malice: these are deeply unhappy people, warped by emotional forces beyond their control, clinging to an ideology they don't entirely understand, shaped by evolutionary pressures they don't even vaguely grasp.  View them as you would have them view Palestinian extremists.

Remember, the force holding us back from equality and civil rights is not an evil corporation.  It is not a political faction.  It is not a corrupt politician or a fringe radical group.  It is a built-in element of the human psyche that has been overstimulated by a traditional fundamentalist ideology.  The problem is deeper than gay rights or any other political cause.  This problem is itself the very deep rift in our society, and the solution calls for healing the American propensity toward fundamentalism of all stripes.  Have you taken the plank out of your own eye first.

In the fundamentalist mindset, those who disagree with us are evil.  But evil is not an explanatory concept.  It helps us feel good about our right(eous)ness, but it does nothing to address the concerns of the Other or the root causes of their sometimes violent distress; as we have seen in right-wing American rhetoric around Iraq and 9/11, it dangerously oversimplifies.  There will be some individuals who are unreachable, who are so calloused and so cowed by fear and hatred that they may never come around.  The work of love and compassion always takes longer than we want it to; it demands more of us - more understanding, more patience, generic tramadol online, more kindness, more self-sacrifice - than yelling and picketing.  This is not a war that is won by fighting, because it is a war that has gone on for centuries, for millenia.  As our economy is on the brink of a collapse, we risk seeing our society lose a lot of its hard-earned civil rights gains to the emergency of the moment, to a despairing public heading back to church in bad times.

And so it is incumbent on us - and on smart, post-partisan people like Obama - to reach out to those we disagree with with love and compassion, even as they lash out against us.  (It's a lot more fun to get outraged at people who fight back, and this is why it's helpful to turn the other cheek.)   Of course, we should still hold Obama's feet to the fire to move legislation where it counts; we can't take for granted that he will in fact carry through on his promises.  While Obama sadly does not support marriage equality, his plans for LGBT rights are more ambitious and detailed than any national candidate's before him. So if you were surprised by Obama's choice of someone you don't agree with, if you wish you could take back your vote, if this action is inconsistent with the Obama you thought you were getting, then you haven't been paying attention to what he's been saying all along.  This is what it looks like to sit down with your enemies without preconditions.  This is what it looks like to set an example for the path forward: not to give in to people who would do you harm, but to understand them, and hopefully speak to their fears and concerns.  This is not about compromise.  This is not giving in.  This is about persuasion.

As Andrew Sullivan says:

...The truth is: if we cannot engage a Rick Warren on the question of our equality, we may secure a narrow and bitter victory in some states (just as the Christianists won a narrow and bitter victory in California in November). But we will not win the bigger argument and our victories will lack the moral legitimacy they deserve.

Only we can do this.  We cannot expect people given over to small-minded ideology to be able to figure out how to heal this country, or understand the causes of their own discontent.  Only we - not trapped by ideological constraints, What Chemicals Are In Tramadol, viewing the world through the eyes of our enemies, availing ourselves of the full spectrum of human experience, knowledge, and expression - can figure out how to build a bridge for these frightened, trapped people, and lead them to the other side.

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Indeed, a text that could not be radically reinterpreted to meet the needs of the day was dead; the written words of scripture had to be revitalized by constant exegesis.  Only then could they reveal the divine presence latent within God's Torah.

-- Karen Armstrong: The Bible: A Biography, p. 82

One serious implication of the "democratization" of the post-Lutheran Protestant movement is a tendency toward populist exegesis of scripture.  This has given rise to an unprecedented degree of overt literalism in interpretation; naturally so, since the literal, Blog Tramadol, surface-level reading is the most obvious level of meaning, Purchase tramadol no rx, and the easiest to grasp.  But when the Bible, or any holy text, is approached not as a mystery to be contemplated and studied over a lifetime, Tramadol Withdrawal, but rather as a quick reference guide to life's ills with easy, Tramadol Withdrawal Symptom, one-size-fits-all answers ready for any situation, time, or place, Painkiller Tramadol, we can avoid uncomfortable reflection about ourselves and the fact that our first impulse in a situation isn't always the right one.  The Bible: Use it to confirm what you already know.  Anything beyond that is too much work.

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To account for the emergence of Christianity, including the formation of groups and congregations, the development of their various practices and rituals, the production of their mythologies, and the writing of their literature requires a radical shift in thinking and theory. That is because the theory of religion implicit in the field cannot even ask about, much less account for the motivations involved in the investments early Christians made in their new associations.  To account for the data that now confronts the New Testament scholar, a theory of religion is needed that can explain Christian origins as a thoughtful, collective human construction, instead of the result of human response to an overwhelming activity on the part of a god.  Only a theory that gives the people their due, a theory firmly anchored in a social and cultural anthropology, capable of sustaining a conversation with the humanities, can do that.

There are some common features to the many theories of religion now being formulated and tested in the humanities.  I would like to suggest five such features that, Experience Snort Tramadol, taken as a set, provide a perspective on religion that can be used as a kind of lens or working hypothesis for getting started on a collaborative redescription project.

(1) Religion is a social construct.  The notion of personal religious experience is inadequate as a point of departure for defining religion or developing a theory of religion.  That individuals have religious experiences is not in doubt.  But individuals in any culture experience religion in many different ways.  The more interesting phenomena are the myths, rituals, symbols, beliefs and patterns of thinking that are shared by a people.  These cultural constructs can be experienced and manipulated in a variety of ways by individuals, but it is their self-evident status as common cultural coin that marks them as the religion of a people.  ... We need to ask about the reasons for and the processes whereby their myths and rituals were first constructed and agreed upon, and how they came to be taken for granted.  It is the social factor, the possibilities and rewards for coming to these agreements as groups in the context of a social history rife with other peoples, groups, and religions, that we need to understand, order tramadol overnight delivery.

(2) Social formation defines the human enterprise.  Constructing societies large and small is what people do.  It is a fragile, collective craft requiring enormous amounts of negotiation, experimentation, living together, and talking.  And it invariably results in very complex arrangements of relationships, agreements reached on better and less better ways to do things, and practices established to pass on the knowledge and skills accumulated in the process.  Social formation is hard work, creates as many tensions as rewards, and is overkill if thought of simply as a strategy for survival.  But despite the risks and repeated disasters, online tramadol, watching each other and talking about each other is what we humans find most interesting.  If so, a social anthropology will be required to counter the endemic personalisms that pervade Christian mentality, and ask about the reasons for and the processes whereby early Christian myths and rituals were first conceived and agreed upon.  What if the Jesus schools and christos groups were attractive as intentional experiments in social formation and mythmaking.

(3) Myths are more than fascinating fantasies, fuzzy memories, misguided science, or collective debris.  Myths acknowledge the collective gifts and constraints of the past and create a space for thinking critically about the present state of a group's life together. Myths are good for creating marvelous narrative worlds in which to stretch the imagination and work out theoretical equations.  They are also good for defining a group's place and identity in relation to a larger world.  This view of myth means that early Christians may not have entertained fantastic mythologies because they were overwhelmed by encounters with a god or a son of God, but because they wanted to comprehend and justify the investments in social formations for which only a god could render an account.  That is what myths can do.  So the questions to ask of these early Christians have to do with what social intelectual benefits they got from the way they dared to imagine their pasts and their worlds the way they did.

(4) Rituals are more than divine placations or magical attempts to channel the powers of the gods.  Rituals are the way humans concentrate attention on some activity or event of some significance to a group, and observe its performance apart from normal practice.  Much can happen at a ritual, for rituals are social occasions, require roles, invite attendance, Description Pill Tramadol, display skills, confirm loyalties, trigger commitments, evoke thoughtfulness, and reconstitute the structure of a group.  In the case of Christian origins, then, it will be important to know what activities were chosen for ritual performance, why they were chosen, how they were performed, and what such observance may have achieved for the group.  I can't resist the temptation to remark that, as far as I can tell, the supper texts in the New Testament were not taken as scripts for "reenactment" until the third century.  If so, scholar of Christian origins have a wonderfully elongated process of ritualization to describe and an interesting quest for theory to explain it.

(5) Mythmaking and social formation go together.  In a stable situation, where pressure to chnge a way of life is not serious, a people's myths and social structure may not need constant tinkering.  But when circumstances change and the social fabric tears, Tramadol Side Effects, and especially in the case of a clash of cultures, the pace quickens, for the older plots will need revision and the social structure will need repair.  Experimentation and bricolage mark the ways in which myths get rearranged and groups reform. Except for the case of an obvious pathology, even the most daring social experiments and the most fantastic mythic constructs turn out to be thoughtful and constructive attempts to regain sanity in a social situation that threatens human well-being.  In the case of early Christians, this proposition means that the making of their myths and the processes of forming social groups should be looked at together as constructive and thoughtful human activities.  And whenever there is a chance to catch sight of both mythmaking and social formation happening at the same time in the same place, the relationship of one to the other should be explored.

It saddens me to see so many atheists bashing their heads against the wall, unaware that the processes of social formation and mythmaking outlined above likewise apply to them.  Religion - and Christianity - makes perfect sense when you realize that people believe in these systems in spite of, not because of, logic, reason, and facts; the social benefits of opting in to the mythic systems of a welcoming community overwhelm the benefits of cold, hard, solitary logic.  We are social creatures, Tramadol Hcl 50 Mg Tab, and any "ism" that fails to address the human desire for community will utterly fail, no matter how many facts it has on its side.

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