stackyFACTSSometimes people cannot decide which massive, complicated system of belief to follow, so they just aggressively blend them all together.
Sometimes people cannot decide which massive, complicated system of belief to follow, so they just aggressively blend them all together. This practice takes wildly contradictory concepts from various global traditions and forces them into a single, highly chaotic spiritual smoothie. Traditionalists absolutely hate it because it completely destroys the strict rules, but practitioners love the sheer buffet-style convenience of picking whatever philosophy sounds cool today.
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