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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:54:57 +0000
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On 10/12/2024 08:59, D wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:
> 

>>
>> What better way is there to get the "tribe" to not question the "moral
>> laws" than to convince them that their God explicitly deemed these so.
>> Who are you, lowly tribe member, to question the "word of God".....
>>
>> One just have to be successful in the process of selling of the 'laws'
>> as "divine from God" to the tribe members.
>>
> 
> True. And today we do the same thing with climate change, although the 
> laws comes from scientists, who represent "the truth" (TM) and may never 
> be questioned.

Yup. and for a lot less socially acceptable motives.


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