Does anybody do rituals?

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I am going to do one tonight.

Which one:

1. Sacrificing a virgin?
2. Burning a goat?
3. A one handed salute?

ruveyn

The ones that are just prayer in wiccan.

Have you performed this ritual before, and if so for what purpose?
If not, what do you hope to get out of it?

ritual covers a very large range of behaviors in religious and secular contexts.

There are quite a few rituals in my life of all kinds, few of them public and very few seen or intended as in a niormal sense effectual.

Now and then. My rituals are as haphazard and scattered as anything else in my life.

If we are talking about religious/spiritual/magic ritual, I believe that ritual is only a vehicle for intent. The intention is the important part. I usually perform a ritual until I've internalised whatever it is the ritual is intended to produce. Some are worth revisiting. Some traditions are so packed with ritual, there doesn't seem to be time for anything else...

I often do the LBRP (lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram) and hexagram before meditating or pathworking.

What ritual are you doing? By yourself or not?

the haka or sipi tau or war dance done before a rugby match - ive only done the haka a few times before a rugby match myself. most of tongan life requires following a ritual or tradition

It would be to great benefit for secularists to have rituals by secularizing and a ritualize religious traditions or principles. Like praying or vocalizing thanks to earth for a bountiful harvest for a meal before you eat it. Or taking an entire day off every week from work or social media to spend that time with friends and/or family or by yourself reflecting.

oh I thought this was about OCD.
@Church and Market are you Tongan? are you Mormon?

I am just doing one to help me with prayer.

Do Greek-letter college fraternity initiation rituals count? I was once a High Priest in mine, performing an entire ritual from memory whereas many of my brothers performed the role of high priest by keeping a ritual book hidden close by.

That's as far as my mystical/esoteric experiences ever went. I regularly take part in the Lord's Supper and observe baptisms by immersion at church. I'm a Southern Baptist.

I have OCD rituals, rituals done of habit (my mother was raised by a Catholic, so we observe their holidays just as an excuse to get the family together and have fun and decorate the house) and religious rituals. Really I only do the religious ones every couple of months during "holidays".

surprisingly, no.

a 3rd of tongans on the island are mormon and mormonism will most likely engulf it all as there is no competition from the current faiths on the island. Most tongan churches who also dissolve in the US also end up joining the nearby LDS ward.

half my moms side and half my dad's side are mormon as well. Im just a theist.

I don't really do too many rituals these days, I have various traditions during the sabbats but not often rituals.


Plingkoking, Wiccan rituals are rituals performed by Wicca or Seekers, sorry but it's really best not to throw round titles/terms like that.

I'm not religious, but the connotations of "ritual" appear very much to my OCD nature.

Am Catholic... nuff said.