Rational Ritual

I think I responded to this when it was first sent, but in the last few months I've started

I don't think a COVID holiday is a worthwhile project. A core principle of good holidays is that

YouTube videos of US Congress money laundering hearing of Saudi Billionaire " Maan Al sanea

Personally, I think Thanksgiving is perfectly friendly already. On Jan 17, 2018 4:21 PM, "

موقع اليوتيوب الذي عرض فيديوهات جلسة استماع الكونجرس الأمريكي لمتابعة نشاطات غسل الأموال ونشاطات

I'd be willing to help with this if needed. Taymon On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Raymond

A variation of that I'd considered-but-never-got-around-to-trying was having people recite (

I think it might be a little too soon to print up paper books. The rate of change is slowing, but

I've been thinking for a while that this set of traditions we're building would benefit from

Thanks for getting this out there. I have some nitpick questions/comments about specific examples

[xpost facebook group] I've adapted Jim Babcock's Petrov day booklet into a slideshow. In New

I mostly wanted to keep this someplace I could find it easily later. This is... one way you could do

Hey guys, Since ritual is an art form, meditation should be considered a sub-genre of that art form.

Both rituals were mentioned in my "declare this holiday open" monologue, but not described

I definitely look forward to seeing (maybe participating?) in a version of this that's a little

I think that is an excellent thing to say explicitly, and it is important. I think I was too

In places that already have a Secular-History-Stonehenge-ish-Style-Solstice, I do think "do it

One thought I have is a comment of Eliezer's (somewhere on Facebook, I can't find it) that

Raymond Arnold has invited you to edit the following document: The Fair Folk cosmic horror ceremony

I agree strongly with optimizing for one group/experience, and Being The Best Thing You Can Be for

I recently completed the charts for the songs in the NYC 2016 Solstice. (A couple exceptions for our

This year several groups used The Button, which seemed to be well regarded. (If anyone *disliked* the

> As a not-specific-to-Petrov-Day principle, I dislike history when history is told through

Yes to avoiding unison. Hadn't been thinking about scalability. I don't think I've seen a

I've created a Slack team for those interested in discussing rational ritual and planning events

We're experimenting with some variations on Petrov Day this year - celebrating the day Stanislav

First iteration of Trickster Day was too silly. Second one wasn't really silly enough, and didn

(Who takes and takes and takes, and does not discriminate between sinners nor saints) On Tue, Aug 30,

(Cynic is still there, was basically renamed "The Hanged Man") I think that makes sense as

Ah, unfortunate. I might try finishing it off in the hours before running it tonight; could you send