Yes, the intent is to demonstrate to each individual my knowledge of the tradition(s) with which they are most familiar. In so doing, I am showing them that I have studied the same things they have studied and I don’t think it was a waste of either of our time to study that particular tradition, -ism, person, etc.
This is meant to keep the peace with respect to their ego. When people are confronted with information that suggests they have spent some amount of their time in this life unwisely, they tend to get defensive and irrational. That’s the ego.
Dogmatists won’t like me because dogmatists are closed minded and defended by invincible ignorance, i.e. “All I need is (Jesus/the Bible/the Quran/etc.)” Their unwillingness to study other traditions leaves them mired in darkness. They can’t see the connections because they only see part of the puzzle. It’s like they’re looking at the puzzle through a microscope…tunnel vision kind of a thing.
My goal is to become deeply “multi-traditional” in my religious and esoteric knowledge so that no matter who I happen to be communicating with at any given point in time, I should be able to “speak their language” and, in doing so, establish bona fides with them, build some rapport, and pacify their ego.
The goal is to show each individual the bridges that exist between the religious tradition to which they’re most attached and all the other religious traditions out there. The goal is to unify people. It sure would be great if we could bring about an end to religious wars, just for starters. It would be great if everyone started doing past life regression and we could rediscover our own past.
There’s lots of things we could do if we got on the same page.
I want THAT future for humanity, our neighbors cohabitating with us here on Earth, and Earth itself.
To me that sounds like rhythm entrainment. On that note, I thought of a simple example of this.
Rhythm entrainment requires exposure, and/or a lack of interference with that exposure right?
I wonder if when I put something in the fridge, I am rhythm entraining that object. Just a thought.
Anyway, I was also thinking dogma is sort of that too.
To me, being multi-traditional sounds like rhythm entrainment across those traditions. On that note, I thought of a simple example of rhythm entrainment. Although I don't know if this meets the definition.
Rhythm entrainment requires exposure, and/or a lack of interference with that exposure right?
I wonder if when I put something in the fridge, I am rhythm entraining that object. Just a thought.
Anyway, I was also thinking dogma is sort of that too. When you become entrained, let's say you are that object in the fridge. Once you reach the same frequency/temperature of your environment, you are in sync, and no longer a load on the system. Putting extra mass in the fridge also helps the compressor to not have to kick on as often, etc.
So back to dogma 😂, it's when you take your entrainment for granted, and you are also willing to defend it. If a warm dish gets placed in the fridge, you feel it and you're upset. Bad vibes, that warm dish has, bad vibes.
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Could we map this to physics in this fridge model?
Let's say a higher order being is the compressor. There is a large mass in the fridge has been entrained by the compressor (the collective). Two new dishes are introduced of equal mass. One is at room tempurture (humble), and the other at 165 degrees (enriched). The loss these dishes must endure is the time it takes to become entrained by the collective inside the fridge (fridge temperature), or by the collective outside the fridge (room temperature). So the humble has less to lose while the enriched has more to lose in regards to time until entrained. Let's say the break even point for the enriched is where it was going to end up if left undisturbed (outside the fridge at room temperature).
So my question is:
Say I am part of this mass inside the fridge, and trying to reach the enriched dish, is this just an equation of time of exposure?
Is my situation with the enriched is that this dish only has 10 minutes with me before it is taken out, heated back up, and I have to start all over again?
Or reverse the roles. I am the collective outside the fridge, and the enriched are the ones entrained at fridge temperature, constantly being placed back in the fridge.
Because if time is the only factor, we could build a collective faster by picking our battles.
/rant
Microeconomics (adapted to effort and belief):
My willingness to trade one understanding or belief for another is measured by a marginal rate of substitution (MRS): the maximum amount of effort in one belief system I will sacrifice to obtain a new understanding or belief. The marginal rate of substitution refers to the trade-off (rate of substitution) of my prior understanding for a marginal (small additional or incremental) change in my new understanding. My marginal rate of substitution of say Christianity for some other form of spiritualism is MRS = ∆B/∆Z, where ∆Z is the amount of effort spent being in, say Christianity, I will give up to get ∆B, this other form of spiritualism, or vice versa, and Christianity (Z) is on the horizontal axis. The marginal rate of substitution is the slope of the indifference curve.
Note that asymmetric nature of this curve.
And some other indifference curves that don't really exist in humans, but to illustrate a point:
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