Posted on 04/06/2021 2:33:11 PM PDT by tbw2
As I’ve grown into adulthood, my appreciation for tradition has increased and I realized that there is something beautiful about paying respect to the people that came before you.
Tradition shows itself in a variety of ways within a particular culture. For example, you can practice certain religious traditions, culinary traditions and celebratory traditions, all of which help to continue the legacy of those that came before you with a level of respect even though times have clearly changed.
That respect that people used to have, in my opinion, is slowly eroding the more technology that we create and the more information we consume.
It wasn’t that long ago that indoor plumbing was an extreme luxury and that people had to wait weeks or months to spread information long distances.
Instead of comparing the past to today with a level of appreciation for what we have today, we look at the past mockingly as we consider these people as being “backwards” in the way they lived, making us self-righteous in our attitude against people who simply lacked resources and thought differently about the world around them.
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Because we want Western culture utterly destroyed and replaced by a brutal Marxist state?
Whatever anyone else chooses to believe, this culture war is following the Maoist agenda of totally destroying the existing culture so it can be replaced with one supporting the communist/socialist agenda.
Everything that existed before is an existential threat and must be totally and utterly destroyed, even if many have to be killed.
Substantially correct. Another way to look at it would be to note that traditions become traditions because they are in some way good. The forces of evil exist to destroy everything that’s good.
I tend to disagree with that assessment. It is really culturally based. For instance, pagans in Latin America had a "tradition" of human sacrifice. Was that "in some way good"?
The Auca Indians of Ecuador had a "tradition" of killing outsiders. This led to the murder of missionary Jim Elliot in 1956.
“We” are not. “they” are.
Christianity and Judaism would be meaningless without its prophecy. And the Abrahamic Covenant, for one, is now over 4,000 years old.
Thank you for correctly identifying the nature of the enemy.
I read. somewhere that “Tradition is peer pressure from dead people”
Indian tribes killing intrusive outsiders makes sense
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Good article
Because we do not understand it and we do not understand it because we are not taught what it means.
It is the unknown and we are threatened by the unknown because it forces us to learn and grow.
Before you throw a tradition out learn the what and the why. It will cease to be threatening and you probably will discover value in it.
That tradition was there because they had been raided so often by slavers for hundreds of years. Outsiders would come and give gifts to lure them out and the next thing you know the strong men and women were being marched off to work on rubber plantations.
Traditions sometimes need to be amended but that does not mean that there was not a good reason for the tradition.
Note this is really going on in white/white europan countries. It doesnt go on anywhere else, no other country would allow it. The hatred of whites, the teaching of it.
Its offensive. Its repugnant. Its hypocritical. Its wrong.
“pagans in Latin America had a “tradition” of human sacrifice. Was that “in some way good”? The Auca Indians of Ecuador had a “tradition” of killing outsiders.”
You put the word “tradition” in danger quotes. I take that as a tacit admission that those things are not properly described as traditions.
“I read. somewhere that “Tradition is peer pressure from dead people””
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it was Thomas Sowell who described it as “giving our ancestors a vote.”
One of the oldest traditions, predating even Moses, is the seven day week. We know where the year came from, or the month, but where did the 7 day week come from? Why not 6 days? Or eight days? It is quite an important question because it determines the days that are traditionally Holy.
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