[ExI] CRACKPOTS (was electoral college)

[William Flynn Wallace]

Hope you don't mind my starting at the top.

What an incredible mess we have made of the world.  Just a few thousand
years ago, if Frazer is correct, we had no religions - just magic (totally
different as he defined them).

Now we have thousands of religions (see Oh Gods, from Atlantic Monthly a
while back) and two new ones every day.  And they exist at the same time as
others are still going the magic route, and others are graduating from
religion to ????

So we used to be very homogeneous and now we are about as diverse as we
could get.

"Those folks over there, with their different religion, food, dance, etc.
They are the causes of our problems and we need to wipe them out, get their
stuff and their women."   About the oldest idea in the world.  If you
wanted to design a world that strongly tended toward war, you could not
have done a better job than to create what we have now.

FYI, goats and other animals have been brought to courts of law - been
found not guilty, been found guilty.  In France!!  I wonder if all of this
is just excuses to kill something and eat it.

Is this the modern world?  Yeah, in some places.  Many have gone to the
Moon and many wear bones in their noses.  LOL   You gotta admit it's
entertaining.  I just love psychology and everything related.  Just amazing
creatures we are.

bill w

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:56 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] CRACKPOTS (was electoral college)
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> >…John, if you want spiritualism and witchcraft explained… The only
> evidence here was of the beliefs themselves.
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> >…Evidence has been sought …
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> HAH!  Unbeliever!  Here’s yer evidence:
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> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/
> 4325377/Nigerian-police-hold-magic-goat-over-attempted-car-theft.html
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> >…Hasn't been found and won't be, I say…  bill w
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> Oh ye of little faith.
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> You just wait pal, that goat might confess before it’s over.
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> Oh man, wouldn’t it be cool, we could play some terrific gags.  We get the
> cell keys, somehow distract the constables, sneak in there with an actual
> (human) car thief who is under heavy sedation, doesn’t know what’s going
> on, switch them, get on out of the police station undetected with the goat,
> watch what happens next morning at breakfast after the thief sobers up.
> They would be talking about a car theft, which he knows he really did, but
> would be unable to explain how he turned himself into a goat and how the
> spell wore off.  Any skeptical locals would have their faith reinforced.
> Oh that would be a total hoot.
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> spike
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