Opening a New Tin/Creating a Ritual?

[Chasing Embers]

Humans are by design, rule making machines. we seek out patterns and replicate them. We assign meaning to almost everything and assign and use symbols to help use make sense of our world.

If that were true we'd all be speaking Sumerian and everything would be made of stone and bronze. Humans are chaotic rule breaking machines that push and break through boundaries. Only drug addict professionals like Freud would think humans live within such confining boundaries.

 

[telescopes]

If that were true we'd all be speaking Sumerian and everything would be made of stone and bronze. Humans are chaotic rule breaking machines that push and break through boundaries. Only drug addict professionals like Freud would think humans live within such confining boundaries.

Yes, I see that now.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You can't have one side without the other. We make the rules and we break them. Rules are not naturally occurring.

 

[Chasing Embers]

You can't have one side without the other. We make the rules and we break them. Rules are not naturally occurring.

Yep

 

[cosmicfolklore]

mean, we all expel feces from our bodies. Is the way we do that a ritual?

Yes, but the crux is in how you phrase it. THE WAY we do it makes it a ritual, not necessarily actually doing it.

 

[condorlover1]

A ritual would like reading the Thompson Cigar catalogue while dropping the kids off at the pool after breakfast. Some rituals are easy to understand. When I lived in a Victorian cottage I had an outside karzi. I would sit on that in the morning and smoke my pipe whilst dropping a few letters in the box. I might even read the The Times or The Sun whilst doing all of the above. I did that every day at around 6 AM and that could be described as a ritual.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I had an outside karzi.

I tried to google "Karzi" to see what that is, and all I got was pictures of Middle Easterners bombing each other. This sounds dangerous.

 

[condorlover1]

@cosmicfolklore 'Karzi' is a slang term for the toilet!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

@cosmicfolklore 'Karzi' is a slang term for the toilet!

Ahhh, that explains the Middle Eastern Explosions I guess.

 

[condorlover1]

Only if you drop lit matches in the pan!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Do we develop rituals or habits?

Lots of both!

Or is it more akin to muscle memory? We do the same thing over and over again until our bodies and minds just automatically function in one way.

I'd guess that pure muscle memory is involved in a lot of things, both habitual and ritual.

I mean, we all expel feces from our bodies. Is the way we do that a ritual?

Groan. Back to that shit again. Every other thread gets spiked with that it seems!

I am sure for some it's a huge ritual. If someone, sensing he was about to make a trip to the loo/head/toilet always picked a certain pipe and tobacco to take with him, I think that'd count as a ritual.

 

[telescopes]

Yes, but the crux is in how you phrase it. THE WAY we do it makes it a ritual, not necessarily actually doing it.

Amen

 

[North of the Border Piper]

Ritualistic pipe smokers. No, please.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Ritualistic pipe smokers. No, please.

What do you mean? Acknowledging the rituals one has is freeing. And I'd venture that anyone who's smoked for a year or two has developed rituals in his pipe smoking.