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Len:
>Could we therefore say that one man's enlightenment is another man's
>endarkment?
Lloyd wrote:
>I agree with Len's statement but would broaden it. Each memeplex has it's
>own term for "endarkment". For Christianity it is sin. For Buddhists it is
>delusion. Each memeplex defines its endarkment term in a way that
>essentially means: not accepting the faith. This means revising definitions
>to fit dogma. Thus "enlightment" to a Buddhist means something different
>from what the term meant during Europe's "Age of Enlightenment". "Delusion"
>to a Buddhist means something different from what it means in mainstream
>psychology.
>I am not sure how your term, "endarkment", might apply to non-religious
>memeplexi. I suppose, at a personal level, it might have to to do with
>anything that creates cognitive dissonance in the self. At the level of
>science it might have something to do with not knowing or deliberately non
>knowing. Feminist researchers in my country, for example, exposed male
>domestic violence while witholding those results of their research that
>showed that women, in domestic situations, were just as violent as the men
>studied. Possibly this was seen as "enlightened" in feminist circles but in
>scientific circles it would be seen as unethical.
>I apologize for rambling. Interesting question.
Len:
Not rambling in the least; extremely well stated.
Len Jayson
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