On Fri, Aug 22, 1997 at 12:40:29AM +0000, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
Kent Crispin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 08:51:09PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0700 8/20/97, Patrick Oonk wrote:
But the ability of a herd to take a vote, real or alleged, will not be sufficient to collect tribute from those who don't want to make the contribution freely.
Note another characteristic of cult thinking -- total separation of the illuminati from the "herd" -- the idea that the "chosen" are irrevocably different from those other unfortunate creatures that accidentally share the same physical form.
the idea is that the "competent" (not "chosen") are irrevocably different from those other "incompetent and parasitical" (and not "unfortunate") creatures that accidentally share the same physical form.
And how is it that one knows that one is "competent"? -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html