Zanderax

Zanderax t1_j1jc7fx wrote

Reply to From sexual union to the divine – the teachings of Ibn al-‘Arabi by ADefiniteDescription

This article pegs itself as progressive but is in fact still very regressive.

> since the woman is the locus for existence of the children

Women aren't just baby machines, they should have their own existence and it shouldn't be assumed women want or need children to be satisfied in life.

> The greatest union is that between man and woman

This is very heteronormative. It doesnt seem very accepting at all to queer identities or relationships.

Feminism is trying to move us past religion, we shouldn't be looking backwards into historical religious beliefs for progress.

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Zanderax t1_j11c4b8 wrote

Reply to comment by NicNicNicHS in Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" by thelivingphilosophy

Definitely agree with all of that. Tradition is almost always a bad reason to continue to do something unless it's harmless fun like Christmas or New Years. Even then things like New Years fireworks are actually really bad for the environment and public health.

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Zanderax t1_j11aof9 wrote

Reply to comment by PinealFever in Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" by thelivingphilosophy

The classic revolution vs revision debate. I'm also on your side, people forget all the good things institutions provide us and focus solely on the bad. I do think however that we need a little more revolutionary changes right now specifically to tackle climate change as that is an externality that we have to fix quickly.

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Zanderax t1_j11abk8 wrote

Reply to comment by NicNicNicHS in Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" by thelivingphilosophy

I think that indoctrination is more multifaceted than that. For example, how can there be Christian physicists and cosmologists when basically all scientific findings counteract the bible? It's because people can have cognitive dissonance to be a indoctrinated fool in one aspect while being a free thinker in another.

Yes almost everyone in the past were indoctrinated into stupid, illogical traditions but that didn't prevent them from being wise and accurate in other areas of knowledge. We shouldn't take past wisdom as gospel but we should learn from it.

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Zanderax t1_j119v3g wrote

Reply to comment by ApocalypseSpokesman in Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" by thelivingphilosophy

What is a conformer but someone that acts solely based on how others act? If you're always counter-culture then you're just conforming in a different magnitude. The real non-conformity is not caring about if you're conforming or not but actually doing what you think is best.

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