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   PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/2d3b97333 Feb 15 2022 MSC 1929   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/2d3b97333 Feb 15 2022 MSC 1929   
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   Joe,   
      
    JM>   It was far easier for ancients to understand each place or thing had   
    JM> its own god, rather than one God over everything.   
    JM>   And make sure that all those gods are appeased in someway.  Miss one   
    JM> and you might wind up in trouble with that god.   
      
     So many societies were polythesitic.   
      
    JM>   An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth meant no more than what was   
    JM> done to the other person.   
      
     Exactly.   
      
    JM>   This is seen in the current culture wars where someone is cheered one   
    JM> day for their particular stance and jeered the next when they aren't   
    JM> enough of whatever the group wants or begins to question group think.   
      
     This may be on thin ice with the rules, but it's like what happened to   
   Jesus. On Palm Sunday, they were cheering "Hosanna!!" to Him...but just   
   days later, they cried "Crucify Him".   
      
     It's also like sports fans...if the coach is winning games, they think he   
   or she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. But, the moment they start   
   losing, they want that coach's head on the platter that the bread was served   
   on.   
      
     Yet, you can have the best coaches on staff, but if the kids don't do   
   their job, they're the ones that should get benched. And, then you have   
   these fans who want the team to win at all costs...and if you're breaking   
   the rules (i.e. the quarterback is accused of rape, but they let him play).   
      
    JM>   But sometimes power goes to ones head.   
      
     That's for all the folks in Washington, DC.   
      
    JM> they are being criminal, they should be treated as any other non-cop,   
    JM> for that is wehat they are when they are pistol whipping a cobnfession   
    JM> out of a suspect.   
      
     I'm just glad that one day, that "justice will be done", and "there will   
   be no question of guilt".   
      
    JM>   Personally I prefer rubber hoses, no marks left.  :)   
      
     Sounds like the punishment from "Welcome Back, Kotter", with it up the   
   schnozola.    
      
    JM>   As with any group, there are good cops and bad cops but the many good   
    JM> ones are lumped in with the bad ones and everyone is tainted.   
    JM>   Weed out the bad ones.   
      
     That goes for every segment of the population.   
      
    JM>    RFLOL!!!  ==spewing coffee over the keyboard==   
      
     Somebody needs to get the moderator some paper towels.    
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Don't lend people money. It causes amnesia.   
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