I picked this up years ago, the original iteration was from Dan Inosanto talking about not just many paths but many mountains.
I like to refer to it as “A way, not THE way.”
This immediately lifted so much pressure off of me for conformance and following the narratives and arguing whether Baptists or Catholics or Pentecostals or Buddhists or Hindus were right.
I also like “The One True Way! tm.”
Anytime someone says “This is the only way!” Just add tm. It immediately takes a lot of the stress out.
I’m particularly distressed by scientism. That’s science as a religion. Mostly because that’s not what science is about. An analogy made here of Neil DeGrasse Tyson as the current high priest, and something similar in Dark Age America hit particularly hard. I can’t unsee it. “When everyone is finally an atheist and agrees there is no God and science is supreme then we can finally have a Utopia!” Says Richard Dawkins. What about the Soviet Union? Weren’t they officially atheist? Did they have any issues with human rights? The problem is that many atheists forget the next logical step, if it isn’t the Gods causing all this hate and misery because “they don’t exist” then the only logical answer is it’s us. It’s us. A violent species of hominid orbiting through the cold space does this stuff to each other. And that’s not at all likely to go away depending on your views on faith.
I’m very hurt by this because one of our best methods for finding out answers (at least in this plane) is being turned into something so dogmatic.
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Re: The One True Way
Date: 2021-09-15 08:28 pm (UTC)I like to refer to it as “A way, not THE way.”
This immediately lifted so much pressure off of me for conformance and following the narratives and arguing whether Baptists or Catholics or Pentecostals or Buddhists or Hindus were right.
I also like “The One True Way! tm.”
Anytime someone says “This is the only way!” Just add tm. It immediately takes a lot of the stress out.
I’m particularly distressed by scientism. That’s science as a religion. Mostly because that’s not what science is about. An analogy made here of Neil DeGrasse Tyson as the current high priest, and something similar in Dark Age America hit particularly hard. I can’t unsee it.
“When everyone is finally an atheist and agrees there is no God and science is supreme then we can finally have a Utopia!” Says Richard Dawkins. What about the Soviet Union? Weren’t they officially atheist? Did they have any issues with human rights?
The problem is that many atheists forget the next logical step, if it isn’t the Gods causing all this hate and misery because “they don’t exist” then the only logical answer is it’s us. It’s us. A violent species of hominid orbiting through the cold space does this stuff to each other. And that’s not at all likely to go away depending on your views on faith.
I’m very hurt by this because one of our best methods for finding out answers (at least in this plane) is being turned into something so dogmatic.