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Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, December 25, 2003, 3:58
Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> Something reminiscent of Hinduism (Vedic) might > have been around at that time.
Indeed, there are common elements, like the worship of Sky-Father, visible in many IE languages; we can also find legal elements (and that far back, law is part of religion) that are in common across the IE-speaking cultures, e.g. noxal surrender (the practice of transferring an animal or child that has injured another to the other). The theme of the "kingship in heaven", where successive waves of new gods supersede the old ones, seems to be a Semitic notion that the Greeks picked up at some point, perhaps when they invaded Greece and mixed with the Shore People. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of resources is the purpose of markets. Efficiency is a byproduct of market systems, not their goal. The reasons markets work are not because users have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are not for conservation of cheap resources. --Clay Shirkey

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