>>Fasting doesn't prove anything other than a need to feel like a good person.
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>So you say.
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>I think when performed as a ritual as a community a deeper meaning is instilled in the individual.
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>The sort of meaning that leads to a change in actions.
Why not just skip the self-aggrandizement and change actions without it?
Ever read Paul Tillich "Do not confuse self-affirmation with self-elevation" ? <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
