I tend to think of it as a way to fight our demons, most of which are internal in my case, so I call myself a smug Buddhist, which my jokey term for the way I have understood and use Jungian analysis to deal with life and demons.
I think that science is pretty clear in that what it proves is true, what it proves untrue is untrue and everything else is possible until proven true or untrue. We tend to forget the latter two parts of it, which traps us into very rigid scientism responses to religion. I say we because I have a visceral physical revulsion response to religion and religious rites chants etc, especially Hindu, and in recent times have been trying to do the Jungian thing and go where my ego says NO GROSS EW NO and see why this is in my shadow and how I can integrate it. I don't know where this quest will lead but hopefully to a place that is more stable and balanced? My point is that I think religion is an easy way to get community--something that is hard to fine easily in modern urban life--and a way to fight those demons, which makes to really hard to resist. I feel like those of us how don't like the trappings of religion end up with other kinds of things that explain the scaries, whatever our personal scaries are, whether it is science to feel like you can make sense of the world and understand what makes it tick, or Jungian analysis where you feel like you can make sense of yourself and what makes you tick :) Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 09:13, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:48 AM Tim Bray via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Your position is perfectly coherent and I think our disagreements if any >> are minor. >> > > This response, right here, is why I prefer mailing list discussions to > discussions in other corners of the online world. > > Udhay > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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