<div dir="auto"><div>I'm an atheist but I grew up in a religious family and I think that their form of worship is alright. My mom is more religious than my dad, if we think in the conventional way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My dad thinks that's there's 'something' at play making everything around us so complex yet so simple. That something may not be someone. He's more of a 'some universal power' sort of person. He says that the more we find out the we know less. There's an inherent beauty to everything, and my dad calls that 'nature'. He believes that nature is cleverer than we are, and if there's something disagreeing with the nature, it's wrong.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My mom is a bit more religious, but she worships by doing some praying for things like the better health of the family or better education for us, etc. She addresses no one in particular, just closes her eyes and says stuff like 'May you have ____' .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Of course, it doesn't accomplish anything, but it gives her hope. She says that even if the thing she prayed for doesn't come true, she'd have hope and a reason to believe. It's sort of an emotional support system.<br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 1, 2020, 12:08 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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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