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Re: CHAT: The Fabulous Personalities of Conlang

From:Andy Canivet <cathode_ray00@...>
Date:Monday, June 10, 2002, 4:39
>Me :). At least, I likes to keep tabs on what people >believe, the better to keep an eye on the buggers :P. >My favorite site :) : > >http://www.religioustolerance.org > >I'd want to stress, though, that in my observation >there's different species of interest in philosophy, >mysticism and religion... >
Heheh... topic for another thread probably - but suffice it to say that on the surface I agree - the difference between the institutions, various dogmas, rituals, etc. is certainly apparent - but I'm coming to the very strong conclusion lately that in a very fundamental way mysticism (i.e. procedural phenomenology) and ethical philosophy (in the classical sense of ethics) share a common goal - to understand the best way to live and how to train the mind & self to live that way. "Religion" is just the instutionalized combination of the two (philosophy & mysticism), with a lot of bureaucracy, propaganda / dogma, and all sorts of other useless sh*t piled on top - which is why us industrialized folk tend to be either afraid of it, or view it as pointless superstition (not to mention that spirituality and materialism have generally not worked well together)...
>> I wonder what kind of language would develop if we >had a truly solid picture of >> human behavior.... > >A deeply cynical one ;)
Now hey... LOL Andy