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To: Ilaine who wrote (38552)	5/25/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Blue, I was only amplifying on X's remark. Take it up with her -- if you dare! <gg> Actually, I agree with you too, when you talk about those who have little but the shirt on their backs. My impression, however, that they are not the people X was talking about. And I have to disagree about the "exclusive club". There are people who really enjoy the idea that others will broil in Hell, while they, as privileged club members, will be sitting pretty up in Heaven, watching. We have already discussed the emotion this evokes: Schadenfreude. Joan

To: Ilaine who wrote (38552)	5/25/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Almost all primitive peoples believe in God- and little kids will make up their own if you don't give them one- the real evolutionary step is figuring out a way to live if life has no extrinsic meaning, and if there is nothing else but what is here. Of course that is a lot harder to do the more difficult your life is. I do not say this is the "correct" way to live I only say it is more difficult, takes more thought, religion seems to fit the well worn paths of most people's synapses. And on a tangent- for some reason the spellcheck function on SI did not highlight the word "Almsot" - is there such a word? A person to whom alms have been given who thereupon inebriates himself?