Rituals

So a ritual can be many different things. I think immediately about church and the various rituals that go on in that context that in essence every sacrament is a ritual that needs to be preformed for a reason relating some significance to people. That, that significance is often lost on people from the outside a third viewer that does not fully understand what is going on. Indeed even some times the significance is lost on the very participants themselves at times.

The question of why some people even pursue certain ritual especially when they do know understand the significance or reason why they are doing it, is something that interests me. especially when you think about it in religious terms that if someone performs and act without understanding the reasoning or what something means, does that make their actions invalid. Yet something drives the people to do these actions and is not the attempt worth something in of itself. That even though some things have ignorance in them the attempt is it not valid?

Also the ideas that I was thinking about were the way in which we instill beliefs and ideas to our children to our ideas and beliefs. To explore that but I don't wish to show that in a negative light because I feel as if people show that indoctrinating children to be like their parents is such a bad thing when in reality i view it as a positive because just look at their parents they somehow made it through live and it is the culture and traditions of them that allowed for such progress on numerous levels in this country.

then again all traditions are in some sense of the word a ritual. Traditions and rituals you can make up very easily and that is something interesting right now in my opinion.

I feel as if there are just too many ideas that I could work with at this point that I should think of more ideas and then start narrowing them down to just a couple to ask for an opinion on for Monday's class.