> On 11 Jan 2015, at 10:22 am, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > By the way, I wonder if you or anybody else on the list can explain something > to me that I have never understood; why is it that in all of human activity > religion is the one and only one that is supposed to be absolutely positively > 100% immune from criticism, and anyone who breaks this social convention is a > terrible person almost by definition?
Because your arrows are pointing at a tribe, not a word. Tribes will not be insulted by other tribes and criticism sounds to the average tribal member as pretty much an insult. Behead all those who criticize the Prophet (you might as well say, because to criticise a perfect being is a blasphemy in anyone's religion. You are quite simply asking for trouble.) There are no thinking skills in evidence in any of this. It's just humans running algorithms in their minds that were embedded somewhere around The Dawn of Man. It's also a fact that some middle-eastern cultures are zinc-deprived (no or little yeast product consumed) and a well-known side effect of low zinc levels is aggression. You could classify middle eastern tribes usefully by mapping the zinc deprivation country by country then compare this with the violence-cycle. A tribe or clan: a bunch of humans who for one reason or another have decided to stick together like shit to a wet blanket through thick and thin. Solution: maybe airdrop supplies of Vegemite or Marmite to ISIL. If they get addicted to it, they may start to get over themselves. Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
