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To be specific about the urban/rural issue, I give the example of the Old Testament. The most ancient forms of the Israelite religion attested there are of a polytheistic type. Other deities are mentioned, but their worship is forbidden. Yahweh seems to have taken local forms as somewhat distinct from the official state form, and the shift from this
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Hi Clayton, re: monumental architecture prior to agriculture, see Gobekli Tepe, and also look at the known Paleolithic year-round villages such as those of the Natufian culture. Sedentism and agriculture are not simultaneous. It probably led to the domestication of grain, in fact-it's possible that the oldest domesticated grains originated in the
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I'd like to just mention on the subject of Joseph Campbell, monomyth, and Jungian approach to mythologies, that this line of thinking is very rooted in a romantic Golden Bough-esque conception of myth and is not to be trusted as rigorously historically accurate. Campbell has many interesting insights but do read some more modern histories of the
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Unconnected thoughts I have on this: I think it's worth saying, though it sounds cruel, that a person who chooses not to protect themselves or hire protection or live in a community that provides general protection, has elected to take their chances this way. If murdered, and if lacking any family or acquaintances to take up for him, no one is left
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You're not wrong, but I'm not a revisionist and neither is my tradition. The point is well taken, though.
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I read a lot simultaneously because I've always got dozens of questions I'm looking into all at once, plus things I'm just wanting to read for fun. The current list: NRSV bible (I never read the bible before. Suddenly I realized that's stupid) Annotated Alice -I'm enjoying Gardner's annotations. I'm concurrently reading The
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Ooh. I should qualify. My IMPRESSION was they left town because their community failed financially. I couldn't verify that. Of course, they might have left because so many kids were opting out that they wanted to get away from the terrible influence of Americans...I'm not sure about that. Even so. I did not witness much member retention. I would
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The voluntary aspect of it is the important one. Any lifestyle that doesn't invade others' freedom is surely possible, probable, and allowable under libertarianism, and a community is a group of people with a mutual contract going. I had a Hutterite friend when I was a teenager, and I was able to visit her family's home once. Here's
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NAP and homesteading are necessary and sufficient for argumentation to be possible. [Are these two concepts the ONLY bases upon which argumentation is possible? I'm not asking leading questions here, I just don't know.] In short, if an argument is to be had on its merits rather than what force can be mustered then aggression in not compatible
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Art History degree (useless), actual career: medical billing in a DME/Oxygen supply company. We deliver medical equipment and O2 to patients in the home. I'm not surprised there are so many computery people here. Doesn't programming require studying some areas of logic?