Lazy in a nutshell

Neither. As a Chaote, I place very high value on /utility/. Perhaps an example..

Generally, people of various degrees of involvement in their religion are tied to a single religion. Regardless of whether they are actively involved in religious service or performing a mundane task, their religion and, to a lesser degree, their belief system or /paradigm/ remains the same.

As a Chaote, I value my flexibility of belief, as I am constantly evolving, transmuting and often simply changing my paradigm to suit the occasion or provide the highest utility.

When I go camping alone, I lean towards an Animistic paradigm, for company and security. When I engage in philosophical discussion, more often than not I'll simply adopt the opposite position of the others involved, to better stimulate discussion and introspective thought.

In summary, I consider myself a constant work in progress, as I constantly strive to learn about new paradigms and belief systems, evolve my own paradigms and practice implementing the most appropriate paradigm for the current situation, ie. the one that provides the most utility.

Perhaps a little more convoluted than I expected, but props if you managed to follow and understand that!

heres what i got from it...
that its not a way of life. or a religion. its simply trying to understand things and finding a way to understand them. and being flexible (you like that word) to be able to try to see from another persons prospective.

what are some things you disbelieve. and things you believe strongly?


heres mine for Christianity i strongly believe "the normal stuff" that He died on the cross for our sins etc etc im sure you've heard it a thousand times. and i believe prayer works, if you accept it. (hey, sounds kinda like, you have to believe for it to work. i think thats in everything) and i think it is total BS that one of my church pastors said he had visions of being in HELL and other stupid bull shit stuff...sigh..lol and i think its total BS that jona was in a whale...and all those other dumb things. but i do believe the...dang the word left my mind...lol..how embarrassing. the morals the story; the things it teaches...god i hate it when that happens...

another thing i want to know, go DEEP into your paradigm (woo i used a big word, correctly i hope!) and what are some things that you strongly believe.

the thing is...every religion does that...if you are truly a "insert religion/belief/PARADIGM (there i go again)/ or way of life here" then you will be flexible and accept others "insert bla bla again here (hehe, paradigm)" then you can understand the other person point of view. so to be honest, you havent told me much about chemognosticism. you just told me about what understanding is.

I'm really trying to grasp this...heehee!!! paradigm! because i have heard nothing of it in my entire life...my whole 16 years being on earth...woo such a long time...sigh...i wish i was older.