I’d need to know which part of Biblical morality we’re talking about.
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I’m mulling over opinions like this > <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/opinion/after-the-womens-march.html>. > > "If the anti-Trump forces are to have a chance, they have to offer a better > nationalism, with diversity cohering around a central mission, building a > nation that balances the dynamism of capitalism with biblical morality." > > This nauseates me, but it is not clearly wrong. > > How to give people the spiritual candy they apparently need, while not having > it result in type 2 diabetes? (so to speak) > Can the yummy parts arise as a result of a small set of principles consistent > with empirical facts? If so, they could be presented in the usual > prescriptive ways for this kind of audience, and then maybe life could go on > without unpleasant extinction events and that sort of thing. > > Marcus > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of glen ? > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:16 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] cafeteria buddhism > > > The recent mentions of various aspects of Buddhism by RobertW, Marcus, and > Steve, and my perhaps too flippant rejection of it, got me wondering. I > started seriously doubting Americanized Eastern religions after/while reading > Tao of Physics so long ago. But I didn't think much of it after that. I > remembered it when I stumbled on someone making fun of Madonna's apparent > cafeteria spirituality (circa 2000?). > > I'm a big fan of syncretism. (My official religion is Holonic Pantheism in a > Rhizomic Bath.) But I worry about it quite a bit. An analogy with numerical > methods might help communicate my point. When you express some mathematical > problem and try to apply an algorithm to it, it's wise to examine the problem > to see if it meets all the prerequisites assumed by the algorithm. If you > apply it inappropriately, you may get garbage, or you may get something that > looks right, but isn't. Or you may get something that works perfectly well, > but then you change the problem slightly and have a false confidence in how > the new algorithm will work. > > Picking and choosing the yummy parts of a tradition (like Buddhism) is > attractive. E.g. many of the drugs we take that make our lives so much > better were developed through purposefully harming various animals (from mice > to beagles). -- Or, more interestingly, I really _enjoy_ harming myself by > drinking too many pints on the weekend. -- What are the implications of > adopting concepts like Dharma without the rest of the context? > > > On 01/21/2017 02:21 PM, Robert Wall wrote: > > The Buddhist have their notion in the /Dharma/, which is kind of an > > Operators Manual for the brain. But people don't seem to WANT to live that > > way even though they like to decorate their homes with statues of the > > Buddha. > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove
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