On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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? > > Just wanted to point out the author of the above is John Clark. > > 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. > > Interesting. Apparently Zinc works as an anti-androgen more generally, at least according to people on this forum: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=150483743 Perhaps there was more to "Bread and Circuses" than staving off hungry people. Jason -- 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.
