On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:46:58 AM UTC+1, Smiler wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:26:11 -0700, Perseus wrote:
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> > There is point here for analysis. Who are the believers? That that are
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> > so well tamed, that do not show any criticizing of their god.
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> Indeed. That rather proves my point, as they're never completely tamed by
> their rulers, only their god. In recent times, one has only to look at
> Egypt, Libya and Tunisia to see that. Changes of government/ruler forced
> by the people, but none are changing their god. According to your theory,
> a change of rulers would also neccessitate a change of god.
This argument would be valid, if it were not more than one ruler.
In this case, there had been, like in post places, two sort of rulers. On a side the military rulers, on the other the religious rulers. Both are sometimes confronted, at least in secret.
The reason for those rebellions were due mostly to an unrelated fact: overpopulation. These nations has been growing very fast in times in which industry was being done mostly by machines. Then, there was not any sense in producing manually any of these shits that are done with automatic machines. So, the those nations were living mostly of tourism, and tourism was not growing at 2.5% a year like the population. Then,all those youths were alienated because they needed a job, to marry and make more children, like their parents deed. In a time like this, with the present global crisis, and higher prices of oil, the perspectives for those young people were of not getting a job, and not have an opportunity to keep breeding like rabbits. So, frustrated they decided to topple the government. But what they really need is a civil war and reduce the population by a 30% or more. They, they would start again to breed like rabbits. There would be a lot of opportunities for those that survived.
Perseus