Let me guess, this "Lord May" fellow is a self-loathing post-op tranny. Some day, they'll find him in a motel room with a pair of pantyhose around his neck. He will be wearing a french maid costume. Seriously, someone make a bet with me.
Posted on 09/06/2009 11:31:09 PM PDT by blueglass
Lord May, the president of the British Science Association, said religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again. “A supernatural punisher maybe part of the solution.”
He said in the past a belief in a god, or gods, that punish the unrighteous may have been part of the mechanism of evolution that maintains co-operation in a dog-eat-dog world.
Having a god as the ultimate punisher was possibly a logical step for a society to take, he added.
"Given that punishment is a useful mechanism, how much more effective it would be if you invested that power not in an individual you don't like, but an all-seeing, all powerful deity that controls the world," he said
"It makes for rigid, doctrinaire
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Let me guess, this "Lord May" fellow is a self-loathing post-op tranny. Some day, they'll find him in a motel room with a pair of pantyhose around his neck. He will be wearing a french maid costume. Seriously, someone make a bet with me.
Yes. Just an imaginary crutch.
I miss Art Bell. Looking at the bars and the tower!
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"Longer Perspectives" topic, or maybe "Oh So Mysteriouso"......may have been part of the mechanism of evolution that maintains co-operation in a dog-eat-dog world.Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
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This is the third time I’ve come across this same piece with different titles, even so I find myself reading the first part as ‘A supernatural publisher may be part of the solution...’
Either way, when he gets to his tale of carrots and their use as sticks the image changes, and I just wish I could go to bed without my supper.
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