[lit-ideas] FW: Re: New Orleans

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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: New Orleans


but nonetheless.....I don't know if you recall, Andy, but in the tsunami there 
was a village on a remote island which we westerners would call "primitive" -- 
thoroughly non-industrialized.  No phones, computers, radios, tv.....   The 
knowledge of the ways of the sea had been taught generation after generation, 
wisdom about their earth-home passed down for centuries.  When the sea gasped 
and the tide went out for miles, the elder of the village knew from the 
passed-down wisdoms what the sea would do next, and he called for all the 
villagers to run for high ground.  When the walls of water came in, the 
villagers were safe.  No one was lost.


A.A.  Isn't this the same sort of thinking that drives religion.  God (here, 
village elders) saved the villagers (us).  Reality:  elders are clueless, 
villagers drown.  God farted and never noticed the dead ants.

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