"Rituals are discussions about the life of our gardens, of our fellow villagers, followed by a group walk around the village, when the designated poet of the day recites verse about life in nature, moral lessons from history and on occasion the religious professionals say sermons from their respective holy literature, in such a way that does not proselytize, such as come to my religion don't go to this other religion because of such and such reasons, their sermons are crafted so that they speak to the needs and dreams of shrunken humans living in Village, a very diverse bunch having to live under the same conditions, leaving no room for creating sects with competing interests. Perhaps this was the purpose of the shrinking, whether it came about by design or accident, to create a condition for humans to live together, to walk by the same rituals, to discover a path together."
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