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Old 07-21-2017, 04:22 PM   #116
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Default Re: Repetition, Ritual, Religion

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Originally Posted by OBW View Post
It sounds so spiritual. But it is not. It is evil wrapped in a faux spirituality.
It's a mindless religion repeated mindlessly because Lee was the authority and it is wrong to contradict him.

Rather than admit that they dare not contradict him and that their imitation of him is mindless and obsequious, they insist on pretending that their thinking is reasonable and defensible. Yet again and again they are confronted with arguments strongly suggesting they should reconsider. But they don't because for them it is not a matter of truly considering the way most people measure consideration. It's a matter that Lee stated things, therefore they are true, unquestionable and to be defended with all the power of one's life. And that is the only thing they consider.

See more under definitions of "mindless fanaticism."

It's what makes these discussions, in the end, boring.

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