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These hand-drawn graphical notes, scanned in and reconstructed, reflect several areas of discussion: examples of [[long-lasting|perseverance]] institutions and practices, ideas from the film [[The Upward Spiral]] on how to act "upstream" to create a large impact from small actions, lessons from [[Octavia Butler]]'s story about the fictional religion of [[Earthseed]], and more general thoughts on religion and the rapid [[change]] that characterizes our time. One of the harder-to-make-out passages, linked to the letter B, reads "In current times, meaning is quickly eroded - how to keep it stable?" This links to the discussion of the core principles we seek to maintain. If a very long-lived institution or practice loses the meaning it was originally given, it may become pointless.