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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Talking of fig trees, it's always seemed odd to me that Jesus, the Son of God, cursed a fig tree because he falsely assumed it to be ripe based on its external appearance: (Matt. 21:18–22; Mark 11:12–14,
20–25). It's all leaves, no fruit. Jesus is mighty pissed. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: inline !important; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;" class="ContentPasted1">Jesus curses
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: inline !important; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;" class="ContentPasted1">Apparently, this odd behavior from a divine being is to teach us to think about
our own figs and to understand that fruitlessness leads to judgment. Who knew? </span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> on behalf of spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 23, 2022 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ExI] fallout and female pop artists:: was: RE: lotta splainin to do</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] lotta splainin to do</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">Just finished 'How Innovation Works' by Matt Ridley
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Cool thx for the reference.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black"> Often the reasons were stupid, such as the ban on tomatoes (I think it was something else but this will do) enforced by the clergy a couple of centuries
ago because they were not mentioned in the Bible</span>…</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">On the contrary, me lad, they are mentioned, sorta kinda. In the book of James, chapter 3 verse 12, a guy comments: “Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? Either
a vine figs?”</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">A tomato plant carries its seeds within the tomato itself, making the tomato itself a berry, the plant-world equivalent to… a… em… ripened ovary. Hmmm, perhaps the old time
clergy had something there. But Billw, the real reason the clergy did crap like that is to establish absolute power over the proletariat, because they could read where a lotta their congregation could not. That ability established POWER, good old addictive
centralized power, the drug which corrupted humans back in the old days just as much as it does today.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black"> - Greenpeace has convinced an AFrican country or two not to grow them</span>…<span style="color:black"> IOW a lot of payoffs of officials</span>…</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">It’s all about power, me lad. Centralized power addiction explains everything. The only cure I know of is to decentralize power at every opportunity. My fond hope is that
the fallout of the FTX collapse will be to shine a light on the dangers of centralization of power in the monetary world as well as in politics.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">Favorite new woman: Taylor Swift - if you saw her commercials you would agree - I have never seen a woman cuter than her. Have not heard her sing,
of course. bill </span>w</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Billw, Where… have… you… been please? Taylor is not only a stunning beauty but a good singer. Not the Karen Carpenter brand of good, or Mary Travers good, or Julie Andrews
good, or Judith Durham good, or even Cass Eliot good, but ahead of all those marvelous singers in beauty. I don’t care for her choice of material, but very talented is that one.</span></p>
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