At 10:28 AM 5/5/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

This is why I still bother reading Tim May's posts. Every now and then he comes up with a good one.

Where the frequency of "every now and then" depends on the reader.. (Actually, many educated catholics probably thought this at the

time.) And although the Catholic church did lose power on many fronts, it by no means dissappeared. (You could almost say it propered, but probably by virtue of the fact that it might be the single largest real estate dealer in the world.)

It was also the largest entrenched dealer in software-opiates in an empire entering the steep part of the tech sigmoid. Still a flourishing market, BTW, though there's more competition, from protestants, scientologists, and mohommed is reporting a high compound annual growth rate..