[FoRK] Baseline for calling out the issue

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Lion Kimbro wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2007 6:53 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>>>   I intuit that there is a new religion forming, a new spirituality.
>
>> New boss, same as the old boss...
>
>   Can you explain this?
>
>   If someone, say, joins a community, to talk about what is
>   meaningful to them, to sing, have fun, and connect with life-
>
>   Can you explain how this is a new boss, the same as the old boss?

A tendency to deify, mystify, etc.  Reinforcement of the tendency to  
"recognize" agency where there is none, as behavioral co-factor for  
all the badness that attends religion.

>> We don't need the crutches any more.  Throw them away completely.
>> They are a carrier wave of memetic disease.
>
>   What crutch are you speaking of?

Mysticism.

jb