Everyone, whether they choose to admit it or not is religious.

[blackout]

then habit = religion?


whats the matter with following the dictionary?

A habit is something a nun wears.


religiously- (Merriam-Webster)

a : scrupulously and conscientiously faithful
b : fervent, zealous

 

[McBell]

It is pretty safe to say that most people do at least one or two things "religiously".

Make lunch every day at a certain time.
Take the exact same route home every day.
Never miss a certain tv show.
Get their nails done.
Go to the gym.
Visit a certain forum daily.

Seems to me that you are taking the adjective and trying to use it as a noun.

 

[blackout]

Seems to me that you are taking the adjective and trying to use it as a noun.

You have never heard the expression,
"She watches her soap opera's religiously"?
(or something of the like)

I am not trying to "do" anything.

I'm simply musing.

EDIT: and wouldn't that be an adverb?
DOUBLE EDIT: — re·li·gious·ly adverb

 

[McBell]

You have never heard the expression,
"She watches her soap opera's religiously"?
(or something of the like)

I am not trying to "do" anything.

I'm simply musing.

EDIT: and wouldn't that be an adverb?
DOUBLE EDIT: — re·li·gious·ly adverb

Yes, it would be an adverb not an adjective.

and it would also be using the word incorrectly.

However, given that some one is content on using a definition that does not even say what they claim it says....

 

[blackout]

Religion is maybe more about one's chosen experience of life/being,
and the daily rituals that accompany that experience of being?

Quilting could be a religion to a person.
They express their experience of life there in the squares.
Their stitches are their meditative mantra.
They realize and reflect while "performing thier ritual".
They embelish their home with the fruit and love of their works.
They bring and share warmth, and coziness
as a way of life,
and share the folklore of their own life vision
in the squares of their life's expression.

I really think religion has less to do with belief,
and far more to do with one's expression and experience of life and being.

But that's just me.

Oh, and also there is the "quilting circle".
Community, sharing in vision, experience of life, ritual,
and even sometimes community service.
(for those of you who feel community is a necessary qualifier
for a religion. which I personally don't.)

 

[McBell]

A habit is something a nun wears.

Perhaps it is, but not until you get to the tenth definition:

hab·it

noun


1. an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.


2. customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit.


3.a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.


4.a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.


5.addiction, especially to narcotics (often preceded by the ).


6.mental character or disposition: a habit of mind.


7.characteristic bodily or physical condition.


8.the characteristic form, aspect, mode of growth, etc., of an organism: a twining habit.


9.the characteristic crystalline form of a mineral.


10. garb of a particular rank, profession, religious order, etc.: a monk's habit.


11.the attire worn by a rider of a saddle horse.
​

 

[blackout]

Yes, it would be an adverb not an adjective.

and it would also be using the word incorrectly.

However, given that some one is content on using a definition that does not even say what they claim it says....

One can't be conscientiously faithful in regards to never missing their soap opera?

You've never heard anything like,?
"She does her homework religiously,
every day, the moment she comes home from school".

I know I have heard 'religiously' used this way many times.

 

[blackout]

Perhaps it is, but not until you get to the tenth definition:

hab·it

noun


1. an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.


2. customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit.


3.a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.


4.a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.


5.addiction, especially to narcotics (often preceded by the ).


6.mental character or disposition: a habit of mind.


7.characteristic bodily or physical condition.


8.the characteristic form, aspect, mode of growth, etc., of an organism: a twining habit.


9.the characteristic crystalline form of a mineral.


10. garb of a particular rank, profession, religious order, etc.: a monk's habit.


11.the attire worn by a rider of a saddle horse.
​

Yes, obviously a habit can be any of these things.
And multiple habits,
can be embodied in/by the habit a nun wears.


I picked the "habit" I liked,
in the context of the post I was responding to.
And according to the thing I was getting at.

(which is exactly what everybody always does anyway).

 

[McBell]

One can't be conscientiously faithful in regards to never missing their soap opera?

You've never heard anything like,?
"She does her homework religiously,
every day, the moment she comes home from school".

I know I have heard 'religiously' used this way many times.

Yes, as an adverb, not a noun.
Doing something "religiously" does not make said something a religion.

 

[McBell]

(which is exactly what everybody always does anyway).

Nope, not everybody, just those who either are ignorant of the error they are making or those who have no better argument or those who are both: to ignorant to understand the error of that argument.

 

[blackout]

Yes, as an adverb, not a noun.
Doing something "religiously" does not make said something a religion.

When did I ever say that "religiously" was "religion"?

I'm wondering though
why you are making "mountain" out of "mole hill".

 

[blackout]

Nope, not everybody, just those who either are ignorant of the error they are making or those who have no better argument or those who are both: to ignorant to understand the error of that argument.

I picked the "habit" I liked,
in the context of the post I was responding to.
And according to the thing I was getting at.

............

I obviously have no idea what you are getting at.

 

[ninerbuff]

You breathe everyday because you subconsciously believe it is a good idea.

No you breathe because your body was designed that way. Smooth muscle is muscle you have no control over.

You eat everyday because you believe it is a good idea.

Duh, you eat or you'll die.

You make plans for the next day because you believe there is a high possibility that you are going to wake up in the morning.

Or you just wake up and be spontaneous.


FAIL

 

[Flat Earth Kyle]

No you breathe because your body was designed that way. Smooth muscle is muscle you have no control over.
Duh, you eat or you'll die.
Or you just wake up and be spontaneous.


FAIL

Still, you choose to live, it is your choice and always has been. People do what they believe they want to.

 

[Revoltingest]

Still, you choose to live, it is your choice and always has been. People do what they believe they want to.

Living appears to be the default condition.
Generally, we do what comes naturally, & continued life is the result.
To end one's own life usually requires more effort.

 

[Me Myself]

Animals eat and breath.

So animals are religious?

 

[Revoltingest]

Animals eat and breath.
So animals are religious?

Funny you should ask.
I recently posted this.....
[youtube]oRLstHNRsdU[/youtube]
Ask Dr Science - Praying Mantis & Religion - YouTube

 

[charles brough]

I just found it somewhat interesting that you claim one term to be "better" than another, but yet still use them equivalently. Again, as Meow Mix mentioned, we could concede that everyone has a world view, or view on the world, but does having a world view necessarily make you religious or a subscriber to a religion?

Good questions . . . It seems to me that all populare and even academic usage of the word "religion" is reference only to the old "spiritual" world view and excludes our secular view and that of East Asian Marxists. So, to say that secular-minded atheists, for example, are "religious" is confusing, is inaccurate, and is definitely "not better." It is pehaps a tactic used to make its adherents think that their more advanced and non-"spiritual" secular or Marxist doctrines are "Truth" rather than just a more advanced ideological world-view.

Does that seem to be too objective?

 

[averageJOE]

40 pages of debating semantics.

 

[Revoltingest]

40 pages of debating semantics.

You can continue to carp, or you can help me derail it.