@Jedigirl@mindly.social Reminds me of this scene. "Well, scientifically traditions are an idiot thing." - Rick

@Jedigirl@mindly.social @matt@postchat.io Laughed out loud

@Jedigirl@mindly.social ☠️😵 YESSSSSSS! I have always felt this! 👏🙌🤜🤛

@Jedigirl@mindly.social Democracy of the dead.

@Jedigirl@mindly.social True. ...and closely related to sentimentality.

@Jedigirl@mindly.social "Tradition: An excuse to ignore what History has taught us"

@Jedigirl@mindly.social interest i have to pay to the heirs

@Jedigirl@mindly.social Funny, but not true. Traditions are mostly inventions of contemporaries and (if at all) only very distantly connected to thoughts and practices of the ancestors. That's what i've learnt from my studies in social and cultural anthropology.

@Jedigirl@mindly.social This definition must have been written by someone who hasn't made their own traditions. While this is sadly true for a lot of people, it doesn't have to be that way.

@Jedigirl@mindly.social Habit: Peer pressure from your older self.

@Jedigirl@mindly.social my favourite number from Fiddler On The Roof.