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If you click more than one box, it would be especially nice to leave a comment as to what circumstances change the answer.
If you click more than one box, it would be especially nice to leave a comment as to what circumstances change the answer.
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'Maybe', explained
Date: 2008-10-01 06:58 pm (UTC)I'm from a tradition that's based on discernment over dogma, stresses that discernment is a discipline to be practiced always, and is skeptical of ritual, as such.
I think of myself as conservative within that tradition, in stressing discernment as a discipline; and in being careful about all rituals.
That means, for me, inquiring within and Above, every time, whether it is right to participate in a ritual. Apart from accepting the spirit behind it, I've found no rule that defines 'right'. 'Right' has something to do with 'agreement' with the ritual; but that isn't determining, either way. And 'right' is for the time and place. I've found it, sometimes, right to participate in a ritual, and at another time not right to, in the same ritual from the same tradition.