| Azure 2005-11-17, 12:59 am |
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Crowfoot wrote:
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> In article <437AE75F.88AA904@pharae.org>, Azure <tain@pharae.org>
> wrote:
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> Well, yep, that's so; after the revelation (which is
> always more or less the same -- "don't do crap to other
> people that you wouldn't like them to do to you, and
> try to be more than decent to each other and appreciate
> the beauty of the world" -- come the priests, and then
> it's "Don't eat this, don't wash that, don't approve of
> anybody who does differently, and give me money for
> telling you what X said you are supposed to do."
Bout the size of it.
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> Presto: an organized religion, just like all the other
> grabby scams. That's why we keep having to have the
> revelators drop in (despite the ugly stuff we tend to
> do to them in return) to remind us that all the rules
> and money-grubbing aren't It. I'd say we're about
> due for another one, wouldn't you? More likely a dozen
> or so, since there's a lot more territory to cover and
> human population to reach in the short time you get
> to do your reminding before some idiot comes huffing
> and puffing along and shoots you.
Yeah, why it takes the tribes to organize not trifle about the trivial
things they find separate them in difference.
That was what Rome used to win the first time.
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