I've always believed that most traditions are rooted either in logic, or in what was most convenient to the people who set the traditions at that time (and which would, presumably, have been logical to those people). Obviously, over time, they've gained the added halo of being an integral part of 'culture' (apart from being irrelevant to the present day and age), and people tend to follow them blindly, because that was what their parents followed. I suspect that if you dig deep enough, you can find a logical explanation for just about anything that falls within the realm of 'tradition'.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > Why must we subject all traditions to logic? That results, most > irritatingly, in 'modern traditionalists' (to coin a phrase) offering > faux-scientific explanations for their practices. I'd rather follow > logic-less traditions than be subject to cargo cult science. > >
