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**JamesTornC** · 04-26-2012, 11:35 AM

Good quote in #11, Aloka.

Although worship can mean different things to different people, to me it is a sign of submission to a power or being greater than oneself. I find it wildly unappealing. While humbleness is incredibly virtuous, submission implies a lot of negative things to me.

I don't even particularly care for rites and rituals of any kind, either. Partially out of some, probably misguided, anti-authoritarianism. Partially because I worry that if I was to set up these rites and rituals, being a creature of habit, I would become more focused on the acts themselves than what they represent.

Of course, if one can do these things without being attached to them than, by all means, go for it.

04-26-2012, 11:35 AM	#14
JamesTornC Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 319 Senior Member	Good quote in #11, Aloka. Although worship can mean different things to different people, to me it is a sign of submission to a power or being greater than oneself. I find it wildly unappealing. While humbleness is incredibly virtuous, submission implies a lot of negative things to me. I don't even particularly care for rites and rituals of any kind, either. Partially out of some, probably misguided, anti-authoritarianism. Partially because I worry that if I was to set up these rites and rituals, being a creature of habit, I would become more focused on the acts themselves than what they represent. Of course, if one can do these things without being attached to them than, by all means, go for it.
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