<div dir="auto">I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Krishna's beatific vision of the transcendent oneness of all human beings is brought out only in the service of, and is followed immediately by "... And therefore shut up and kill the people your liege lord wants killed, when he wants them killed, in the  way he wants them killed. Your lord's homicidal will is the highest possible worldly good, and don't you forget it."<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just sayin' I'm pretty sure the bottom half of that legend was written before the first part was.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 9:04 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Spike, if China can incorporate capitalism to some degree and still call themselves communists, why doesn't Russia do it? Or Cuba, North Korea, etc.   Purists?  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 9:23 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Tara Maya via extropy-chat<br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Open Individualism<br>
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>...So it's like a "people's republic" where the combination of words<br>
actually reverses the meaning of both...<br>
Tara Maya<br>
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Tara note that the title "People's Republic of China" doesn't specify which<br>
people of China.  It only specifies which Republic.<br>
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They can pretend otherwise, but they are still commie to the flaming core.<br>
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spike<br>
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