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Second is the term "origin in the past'. How much time should be passed on? Can we think of something like one month ago or necessarily it should come from generations way back in time?
I would also like to replace the phrase "ritual and beliefs" with something less sophisticated like behavior and ideas.
I always praised people who were not traditional and I always did my best to be one of them. Not that it always went according to the plan but I never lost my taste for anything nontraditional, uncustomary and unconventional. I believe fighting traditions and not automatically accepting whatever people say just because they heard it somewhere is a value by itself, although I accept there may be a huge argument against it.
Consider a scenario that a group of (3?) people happens to have something going on every week (something like a party) and they started that a month ago. By definition this can be a tradition and if one of them happens to not continue this he may have experience some isolation from the other two just like what could happen when people didn't comply with the rules of societies.
I can think of something even simpler. What if someone, for whatever ideological or stupid reason, doesn't like to say hi to people s/he sees every morning at work. Won't s/he be an outcast of that small society?
And here is my dilemma: Can we really live a nontraditional life or just being among other people means living traditionally? What happens to freedom of mind? How can someone be an action and not a reaction to what others want? Where is the boundary of living traditionally and modern?
A tradition is a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the pastAnd its been a while that I am thinking about the meaning of tradition and I guess I can make some comments on this definition.
Looking for the meaning of "society" in wikipedia
A society is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory ...So it does not say anything about the number of the people but usually when we talk about society a large number comes to our mind.
Second is the term "origin in the past'. How much time should be passed on? Can we think of something like one month ago or necessarily it should come from generations way back in time?
I would also like to replace the phrase "ritual and beliefs" with something less sophisticated like behavior and ideas.
I always praised people who were not traditional and I always did my best to be one of them. Not that it always went according to the plan but I never lost my taste for anything nontraditional, uncustomary and unconventional. I believe fighting traditions and not automatically accepting whatever people say just because they heard it somewhere is a value by itself, although I accept there may be a huge argument against it.
Consider a scenario that a group of (3?) people happens to have something going on every week (something like a party) and they started that a month ago. By definition this can be a tradition and if one of them happens to not continue this he may have experience some isolation from the other two just like what could happen when people didn't comply with the rules of societies.
I can think of something even simpler. What if someone, for whatever ideological or stupid reason, doesn't like to say hi to people s/he sees every morning at work. Won't s/he be an outcast of that small society?
And here is my dilemma: Can we really live a nontraditional life or just being among other people means living traditionally? What happens to freedom of mind? How can someone be an action and not a reaction to what others want? Where is the boundary of living traditionally and modern?
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