Being romantically involved with more than one person at one time and all involved parties are aware and accepting of it.
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Hym "Pluralism requires the religions to be transformed into something they are not. If the religions are resistant to the change that pluralism requires will inevitably be disempowered. Either by the state or the communication networks. It's at that point you have a hierarchy of religious dogma, backed by the state and communications networks, and it's going to elevate the religions that more closely align with your progressive sensibilities above the religions who do not. What you are suggesting is nothing more than liberals controlling the religions with soft power from the outside in a way that allows them to deny their own culpability. What happens to the Muslim fundamentalists who think gays should be thrown off buildings? What happens to the Christian fundamentalists who object to abortion on religious grounds? They both take a backseat to the other religions that allow your liberal bullshit pluralism to dictate (from the top down) which religions can accrue power. Your pluralism IS the precursor to the hierarchy you condemn. And that was my initial criticism of the Atheist pluralists. 'The religions would be fine if they believed what I believe. I should be the God. As long as the religion is promoting my progressive politics then it's fine.'
Hym "Pluralism requires the religions to be transformed into something they are not. If the religions are resistant to the change that pluralism requires will inevitably be disempowered. Either by the state or the communication networks. It's at that point you have a hierarchy of religious dogma, backed by the state and communications networks, and it's going to elevate the religions that more closely align with your progressive sensibilities above the religions who do not. What you are suggesting is nothing more than liberals controlling the religions with soft power from the outside in a way that allows them to deny their own culpability. What happens to the Muslim fundamentalists who think gays should be thrown off buildings? What happens to the Christian fundamentalists who object to abortion on religious grounds? They both take a backseat to the other religions that allow your liberal bullshit pluralism to dictate (from the top down) which religions can accrue power. Your pluralism IS the precursor to the hierarchy you condemn. And that was my initial criticism of the Atheist pluralists. 'The religions would be fine if they believed what I believe. I should be the God. As long as the religion is promoting my progressive politics then it's fine.'
You want the moral authority for yourselves. You're trying to dress it up as this benign thing and it isn't. So no. No pluralism. The only solution to religion is to create a system that is impervious to and unaffected by believe. You can have your little incest cult and you can have your liberal politics but I, as an individual, do not have to lend any credence to your religion, don't have to do what your God says, and to discriminate against me or transgress upon me for doing so is a violation of my religious liberty. We need to get this subjective prescriptive behavior out of people's lives and turn society into an input/output mechanism where people can contribute independently from and regardless of their beliefs and receive output commensurate with their contributions. So, if THAT is what you mean by pluralism, then fine. But it doesn't sound like it. Maybe I'm missing something. Additionally, focusing on Hindu voices when speaking about Hinduism is just a way of preemptively undermining dissent against Hinduism. I can just as easily say that we should prioritize dissent."
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Get the plunderish mug.A philosophical stance that argues there is no single, universal "Scientific Method." Instead, it posits that science is a diverse ecosystem of legitimate methods, theories, and practices, all capable of producing valid knowledge about different aspects of complex reality. It challenges rigid demarcation criteria that exclude fields like psychoanalysis or indigenous knowledge systems simply because they don't fit a lab-coat-and-test-tube mold. The core idea is that to understand messy phenomena (like the human mind or ecosystems), we need a toolbox, not just a hammer.
Example: The classic Scientific Pluralism debate asks if psychoanalysis is a science. A rigid "physics-only" view says no—it's not experimentally falsifiable like chemistry. A pluralist says yes—its clinical interpretive methods validly explore subjective human experience, a domain where controlled experiments fail. It's the difference between kicking a therapy couch for not being a particle accelerator and recognizing it as a different, but valid, instrument for a different kind of investigation.
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Get the Pluralism mug.The recognition that there is no single "Scientific Method" but rather a pluralistic toolkit of methods, each suited to different questions, domains, and scales. Physics methods work for physics; ecology methods work for ecology; ethnography methods work for humans. Plural Method rejects the hierarchy that puts some sciences above others and instead asks: what tools are appropriate for this problem? It's the difference between insisting every tradesperson use a hammer and recognizing that plumbers need wrenches, electricians need testers, and sometimes you need all three. Pluralism isn't relativism—it's just acknowledging that reality is various and requires various tools.
"You keep saying economics isn't a real science because it can't do controlled experiments like physics. Plural Scientific Method says: different domains, different methods. You don't test a parachute the same way you test a marriage, and that's fine."
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