This is NOT about any particular religion. In fact, I am more writing about the general concept of "religion" and how the term is used. The term "religion" obviously applies in cases of spirituality and things like that, but I also hear it used in arenas such as politics (i.e. your political party affiliation is treated like a religion), health-related beliefs (i.e. which diets or exercise regiments lead to the best health), and consumer electronics (e.g. you are all in on team Apple, or you hate them). It occurs to me that the term "religion" gets applied to things for which there **is** "good" or "bad" outcomes, but it is unclear how to arrive at them - in particular when the [[Feedback Loop]] between inputs[^1] and outputs[^2] is long or impossibly confounded with other uncontrollable influences. Long such as ramp-up and transition cost of tool selection (business/technology/tool), economic policies enacted (politics), health outcomes (exercise/diet), whole lives (actual religion). ![[Abstract_depiction_of_Religions.png]] **** # More ## Source - self ## Related [^1]: activities, praying, resource use, technology/tool selection [^2]: e,g, going to heaven or hell, helping the economy or hurting it, having more or fewer technology or tool problems