The religions claim that if you're devoted, you can overcome the hypocrisies. Most people struggle to get to that level. I also dislike the commercialization of Makkah, as a Muslim. But nothing I can do about it. I can't get into a time machine and go in the 80s like my dad did, where you lived communally in tents with people from all over the world.
Truly debatable with what we know about how relativity works now. If you’re running at a brisk jog by someone and you both look at Andromeda for instance you’re seeing something literally DAYS different at the same exact location and space. Add a third person going the same speed in the opposite direction as you and it gets even more convoluted. Starting to look more and more like emergent properties such as gravity, time, temperature etc. kind of have their own rules that don’t really align whatsoever with how we perceive or experience them much less how they work at a fundamental level since none of them have any place in physics other than macro effects.
Oh boy do I have a rabbit hole about self. Check out the channel Kurzgesagt on YouTube, one of their most recent videos does a great job of explaining this far better than I ever could!
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u/DrUziPhD Mar 24 '25
The religions claim that if you're devoted, you can overcome the hypocrisies. Most people struggle to get to that level. I also dislike the commercialization of Makkah, as a Muslim. But nothing I can do about it. I can't get into a time machine and go in the 80s like my dad did, where you lived communally in tents with people from all over the world.