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Just one of the more enjoyable impairments under which I labor... ;)

Doreen in Alabama

Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain.

Good one. But it's not just them!!! Good grief, where have these people been for the past 300 years? Well, not the Mormons - they didn't exist 300 years ago. But Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have a long history of women as chattel.

Now you've done it! My vision of a genteel southern lady is shattered! ;-)

Beverly

Oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!

Beverly

Not saying it's any worse or better, but does "suti" make any sense aat all????

Beverly

You've got a choice. Click your heels three times, or move on down, move on down the road.

Toss that one in with the rest. Sati, suttee, suti or however you spell it, plus bride burnings are out of the same attitude. It's hard to find a belief system that doesn't trash women -- unless you go back to pre-historic times.

The rest of knowledge does operate that way. Ever take plane geometry? It's loads of fun -- prove hundreds of logical propositions, starting with a very small set of self-evident truths.

And then you find out that there are three flavors of plane geometry, depending on which parallel axiom you take as self evident.

You can't even prove that you yourself exist without making unsupported assumptions. Everything has to start *someplace*, every bit of knowledge has to rest on something, and however we dress it up and rename it, there is nothing but a bit of faith at the bottom.

[points both ways] "Of course, some people do go both ways."

Beverly

Gaia, now that's the ticket!

Beverly

Yes, and they're really fun at a party.

*sigh* Why do we need an imaginary creature to blame everything on? If I had to pick, I think I might select the Flying Spagetti Monster. Makes as much sense as any of them. ;-) Or the Tooth Fairy. Kate will vote for the Hogfather, betcha.

I'm not at all sure that's what Scarecrow had in mind, but whatever floats your boat... ;-]

Beverly

What *is* the Pastafarian position on the role of women?

Beverly

Might be 45 or 50 years too late.

As far as I can find, there *is* no position. No discussion of the roles of the sexes, nothing at all. If I were to bring it up, I would suggest that women are saucy.

Being a man with a severely warped sense of humour, he's probably offer them beer and chocolate cake! :D

Karl Marx said that religion was the opium of the people. I see it more as the LSD or heroin of the minority, leading to bizarre beliefs and strange behaviour, and crime to support a habit... I'm sure humanity would be better off without it. In the meantime, the Hogfather is less odd than many belief systems and will do as an illustration of how they grow and change and adapt over the years.