<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Worship can be a lot of things. It can be communication, showing affection to “god”, saying “thank you”, sharing awe, dispelling fear.<div><br></div><div>I think it comes from a natural impulse, a natural overflow of feelings.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t think Buddhism has to have Worship, though some kinds do.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that it’s one step beyond a “great esteem”. It goes jest a little further until it’s not based on objective facts anymore, emotional impulse takes over.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 30, 2020, at 1:37 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think that maybe I asking the totally wrong group:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What is your understanding of worship? Where does it come from? What does it accomplish? Can there be a religion without worship? Is it just a form of great esteem, like we might have for Maxwell or Newton?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div>
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