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Comment author: ialdabaoth 15 October 2012 10:41:57PM 1 point [-]

On this site, there are discussions about believing-in-belief, and how to purge it when you are merely "aping the belief" in something wrong, like religion.

I want to believe that there are packs that do not care about rituals, but I cannot formulate an actual belief that this is true; only a "belief-in-belief" that it is true.

How does one modify the process of purging "belief-in-belief"s that happen to actually correspond to reality? Because it seems that getting the right answer for the wrong reason is just as bad as being wrong.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 November 2012 04:10:27PM 0 points [-]

What do you mean by "ritual"?