Chapter (41)
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After thinking for a while, Tao Ling gently bit his back teeth and asked, "Aren't you going to have dinner with your girlfriend?"
After reading this, Wen Qingying blinked in surprise. After looking at Tao Ling, he wrote: "But I don't have a girlfriend."
He answered frankly. Tao Ling observed his expression and found that he was either not lying or he was too used to lying.
Between the two, Tao Ling naturally chose the former almost immediately.
But then he remembered the photos he had seen in the forum. He wanted to ask but couldn't. If he really asked, he would become a voyeur.
Before he could think about it any longer, Wen Qingying's cell phone came over again: "Sir? I have a few more questions to ask you, sir. Can I have dinner with you?"
The sycamore tree above my head had withered leaves and was very desolate, but when the bright sunshine shone, it suddenly showed a kind of heroic tenderness.
Like Wen Qingying.
After a long and short moment of hesitation, Tao Ling wrote: "I'm fine for the whole weekend."
The last class talked about the medieval Taoist spiritual medium group. After eating, the two returned to the flower shop. Wen Qingying opened the rolling shutter door and turned on the light. He took out a notebook and listed several very targeted questions.
After reading his thoughts, Tao Ling started typing on the notepad on his mobile phone: "The concept of 'personal religion' is actually not inconsistent with the nature of religious groups. The Taoist school is accustomed to using the same expression technique, and the practitioners When groups are formed, a lot relies on religious experience.”
As he wrote this, he turned his head to look at Wen Qingying. Wen Qingying showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. He came closer, picked up his mobile phone and answered: "I understand, religious experience unites monks, and there is a group. The core is the spiritual medium, who is the bearer of the religious experience in the process of establishing the sect.”
Tao Ling smiled: "Yes, this is the issue of acceptance in religious experience."
“Martin Buber’s research shows that the most different thing between religion and witchcraft is that religion tries to establish an ‘I-Thou’ relationship between man and God, and the core of the relationship is ‘personality encounter’.”
Looking up again, he happened to find Wen Qingying looking at him with burning eyes. Tao Ling's heart skipped a beat and asked, "What?"
This sentence was spoken, but Wen Qingying received his meaning without any hindrance.
Wen Qingying pursed her lips and typed a few words: "Sir, if one person wants to establish this kind of personality relationship with another person, does this count as creating a religion between the two people?" Tao Ling was stunned for a moment. , seeing that Wen Qingying was asking seriously, after thinking about it, he put aside the question for the time being and wrote: "The connection between man and God is simply that people believe in and devote themselves to God, and God protects people. So-called Personal religion is similar to what we call religion for life. The Taoist Shangqing Group believes in immortality and accepts the words of immortality through spiritual mediums in order to solve survival problems. All phenomena are based on personal religion."
Wen Qingying looked at his hands, saw him stop and turned his head.
Tao Ling's eyes intertwined at a close distance, and Tao Ling's heart was beating fast. He looked away without revealing any trace, and continued to write: "There are conditions for judging whether certain groups can be called religions. Many scholars have studied and defined them. , but if you ask this, in fact... there may be a quasi-religious experience between two people. It can only be said to be a similar experience, because the necessary conditions for the formation of religion are insufficient."
"The above is a more rational explanation. The encounter of religious personalities can only be between man and God, and is determined by power. This is easy to understand in a cult. When a cult forms a group, it must first shape A kind of transcendent power, even if it is to worship a certain person, it will deify certain characteristics of this person."
“Because a person cannot truly entrust himself completely to another person, and it is impossible for a person to truly protect another person.”
Tao Ling finished all this in one breath and finally said: "The answer is the lack of objective conditions for the formation of religion. The rest are just my own thoughts."
Wen Qingying looked at the notepad on his phone quietly. After a long time, he raised his eyes, smiled, and nodded lightly.
The smile seemed to be the same as usual, but Tao Ling felt that Wen Qingying had something to say, or that he had different ideas.
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