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RE: The Daily Owl, Ep. 26: You Gotta Be Human Before You Can Be A Libertarian
Well I don't see why you want to hang all that baggage on religion, in fact everything you've said about voluntaryism could be said about spirituality - if you think religion is a dirty word we can subsitute it a number of ways, but we do like to get together in groups and be compassionate, and sometimes people put rules and axioms before compassion but that's just messed up dude.
Religion often hangs its own baggage on itself, sadly. I understand many of us define religion differently, though. Maybe if you watched the video you could see what I mean, and how I define it, and thus come to a better understanding of my meaning here.
Oh my dear Kafka, I do not generally watch videos longer than 8 minutes, and thus normally do not comment either. But yours had such a nicely detailed description with what seemed to be an incongruent relationship between these two groups. Surely there are confused humans in every group and philosophy. I like Phoenixwren's answer, so I shall let that point stand for itself.
Now, called out on the blockchain as unwatcher, I shall make an effort to watch your video and see if you do any better verbally treating people as people with out regard to their labels. It is now situated safely in a new tab where it can remind me of its presence.
I too struggled many years with religion, and hope that I don't come off as dense, on the contrary, I am contrarian, and a proud practitioner of the NAP. Recently I have been exploring the religious roots of my ultimate spirituality, and work hard to liberate 'religious' brothers and sisters to the realms of 'freer' but still spiritual philosophies. But I shall strongly oppose any indication that a religious heart is illogical, and perhaps that was one more point that pushed me to comment without full information.
Cheers! Been following you since the steem silver round song competition!
Wow. Did you take the description personally or something? Yikes. I didn't "treat" anyone, any way. I expressed a view (which you have misconstrued fabulously) in the description. This is the reaction I usually get from religious folks, actually. And they usually don't check out the argument. Lol.
Like I said. Maybe actually hear the argument before judging it ;)
I should shut up. I'm going to watch it. This is supposed to be witty banter.
Treat like treatise or an academic treatment not like....I need to watch this video now....
I've watched the video, and found the next in the series haha.
I will watch that and comment there, as appropriate. I have many thoughts. When you define 'being religious' this way, it does change the discussion, but surely you must realize how that makes my knee jerk. See you over on the next one.