Reminds me of what Jefferson said about the US constitution, but it should be rewritten every 19 years
Imagine how annoying that would be for an eternal being - 20 years might as well be 20 minutes. You just got settled in and the humans start moving stuff again!
dereg•1h ago
Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of money to throw down the drain every 20 years.”
Then I did the back of envelope math. Assuming 20% comes from donations, then all you’d need is a $380m fund earning a real 3% to fund the building of the next temple. That’s very doable.
prmoustache•1h ago
anvandare•1h ago
The shrine is the previous generation teaching the next to build the shrine.
So if the shrine were to fall, then the shrine would eventually fall.
That is why the shrine must keep falling, so that it can keep being rebuilt, and so the shrine keeps standing.
lo_zamoyski•11m ago
Something is “weird” when it is absurd, which is to say something that is aimless or has an aim that is not in the service of an objective good. There’s a deviance from the nature of the thing, like intentionally growing a tumor on your forehead or having a tumor growing out of your forward and then happily refusing to have it removed.
Otherwise, what is said of things that are merely unconventional.
So in this case, is there not a purpose? Is the purpose not spiritual and instructive in some sense? Are you not imposing an inappropriate tacit goal onto this practice?
Or perhaps you find it weird because it is nowhere to be found within your conventions?