ISSUE 207...貌似这个话题实在不了解啊！！！

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ISSUE207 - "Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."
WORDS: 584          TIME: 01:00:00          DATE: 2/9/2011 10:33:44 PM

For thousands years, human beings keep trying to cogitate themselves, and the answer of who they are, where did they come from, and where would they go still are the most mysterious and difficult questions to all the people, the philosopher and anthropologist included. Therefore, the speaker posts a solution that the rituals and ceremonies could help define a culture and with them, the sense of who people are would not diminish. However, the rituals and ceremonies could only be a form that reminds people to think about the self-cognitions but could never be the only way.

At the beginning, we should make it sure that what is culture. Culture comes from the history, the value, the ideas, etc. and it was build up when people have their common and joint thoughts and understandings. Rituals and ceremonies are the means let us know and feel the form of the culture, through which, we could get the shape of the invisible culture as the following evident show. One of the vital ceremonies is the graduation. No matter we are graduated from university, high school, secondary school and so on, at the end of the study term, we would have a graduation ceremony which indicated the accomplishment of our study and education. This kind of ceremony reminds us that education is a stately and respectable part of the culture. Without them, the technology development might be diminished, and the society won't be as peaceful and happy as nowadays. Thus, the ceremony brought us a deep thought about the culture and helped define a culture with a particular method.

To individuals, the ceremony and rituals could also recall their belonging to whatever the culture, the society, the religion, or the country; and it is the sense of belonging that make them be aware of the self-value and the roles they play in the society. When we are at the church, the choir are singing, the people around are in meditation, what would you think about? Would you think of the violence or the blood? Would you think of to cheat or to betray? Would you think of cherishing anything you've got? Would you think of thanking to your parents? That is the church; people go there to make themselves being cleared up in their mind and to help themselves finding the self-belonging and value. Therefore, the meaning of rituals and ceremonies is more than is actually is, but the moral and spiritual thinking.

As result of the thinking of oneself, the society, the culture, people could understand what they really want, what they are pursuing for, the reason why the still living and try to make their lives better. That's the self-cognition the rituals and ceremonies really mean. They are no longer the only forms, but also the belief and support that could strengthen their will. The moment people look back of their lives is the moment they would outlook of the future. And, only if the know themselves, the shortage and the advantage; they would know how to cherish what they have and to pursue what they want.

To sum up, culture contains the history, the thoughts, the obvious and hidden idea, and the value of the society. Rituals and ceremonies are good ways and forms to help people define a culture and to increase the belongings of the culture. But, only if people have their own thoughts and ideas of the society and themselves, the sense of why they are would be increased and clear.

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其实楼主写的蛮不错了，你主要就是把话题分为一个culture的层面和一个个体的层面，认为这两个部分都构成自我意识，而非其中之一。

我个人的感觉是： 第一，对这个题目的把握喔和LZ稍有不同，我觉得题目的意思是削弱了自我的存在感，在楼主的文章里面，却感觉到是自我的存在感就完全没有了，是否有些过头了？

第二、我本人是sociology major，按照很多社会学家的观点来看，ritual 和 ceremonies是一个社会整合其个体、增强个体对团体认同的一种社会整合方式，也就是你所说的这个文化意义。不过如果是我来写的话，我的破题会立足在如果没有了，究竟是增强了个体意识，还是减弱了个体意识？ 如果没有了，那么我们被削弱的部分就是我们所谓的社会层面的部分，也就是我们在些个ritual 和ceremonies中扮演的社会角色。可是也要意识到有一部分被增强的自我意识，那就是独立于社会层面之外的ego,从我们努力的去寻求与他人的共性到转而放开社会层面对个体约束之后，去探索自我的心灵意识，并认识到自我的异质性（很多哲学家、宗教者都如此）。

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同sociology的路过....

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其实楼主写的蛮不错了，你主要就是把话题分为一个culture的层面和一个个体的层面，认为这两个部分都构成自我意识，而非其中之一。
——其实最后我一直想强调的是自我意识还是需要个人自己认识的，通过R&C只是一种途径和手段，大概没有说清楚，悲催。写着写着就忘了自己再说什么了。


我个人的感觉是： 第一，对这个题目的把握喔和LZ稍有不同，我觉得题目的意思是削弱了自我的存在感，在楼主的文章里面，却感觉到是自我的存在感就完全没有了，是否有些过头了？
——恩deminish应该是减弱的。我感觉我减弱这部分的确没有说好。恩，我再去想想该肿么表达。


第二、我本人是sociology major，按照很多社会学家的观点来看，ritual 和 ceremonies是一个社会整合其个体、增强个体对团体认同的一种社会整合方式，也就是你所说的这个文化意义。不过如果是我来写的话，我的破题会立足在如果没有了，究竟是增强了个体意识，还是减弱了个体意识？ 如果没有了，那么我们被削弱的部分就是我们所谓的社会层面的部分，也就是我们在些个ritual 和ceremonies中扮演的社会角色。可是也要意识到有一部分被增强的自我意识，那就是独立于社会层面之外的ego,从我们努力的去寻求与他人的共性到转而放开社会层面对个体约束之后，去探索自我的心灵意识，并认识到自我的异质性（很多哲学家、宗教者都如此）。
——啊啊啊啊！！！我欣赏你这个破题方式！！！应该立意在这里的！！！我一直在强调他的作用。恩恩你说得对！！！
我觉得你这个思想深刻啊！！！学习！！！！！