[ExI] psychology

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> As a fun aside…  the more rigorous religions have a task ahead of them.
> To create and maintain a market for their product, they not only need to
> make the believers feel guilty for their sins, there are plenty of cases
> where they must make the young believer feel guilty for sins they didn’t
> actually do.
>

That's easy: "original sin".  The theory is, you were created out of a
process that involved sin, therefore you bear part of the burden of that
sin just by existing.  Just like debt slavery, there might be a notion that
you could theoretically do enough good to get out of it, but the people in
control keep changing the numbers and moving the goalposts so that you can
never escape their clutches.
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