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it's interesting how much of religious stuff is just that ritual and artefacts to make-you-feel-small feelinglike fancy buddhist shrine or eastern orthodox church, same sort of effect when you first walk in and see that sort of spaceand us pop-up protestant churches kinda have to compensate to match, because being held ins boring plainwalled office building spaces with no icons or anything, so lean extremely heavily on music
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@shmibs have never thought about that
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@nik author is a bit weird maybe, but this book strange rights, tara isabella burton, had some interesting stuff to say about that as well. like all these 20 and 30 something girls in the us who've supposedly gone non-religious according to polling, instead they're doing stuff now like visiting immersive theatre productions over and over to fill that same rolei guess you could see something like rocky horror that way too, "secular ritual"that's the sort of natural thing humans go for everywhere, repetition and predictability, costumes and dancing and singing and darkness and flickering lights (like being around a fire) and telling and retelling stories. and the modern idea of religion, politics and converting people, really just piggybacks on it