The odd "fundamentalist" presumptions of the "City of London"s testaments - or current interpretations of them, in fact, at least match the weirdest statements of even the purely-to-avoid-tax "religions" that some have come up with - but say what you want about scientology - its has a lot further depth to it than that. If it wasnt a textural certainty that quite a lot of the "controversial" bits of St Pauls letters were later additions (the originals were passed around secretly when the "church" was underground, so had much respect- hence later misuse using small inserts ), then the city of londons largest religious establishment might seem to support some peripheral ideas we might think oddly unsocial.
We often misinterpret metaphors as claims of fact - yet our own "orthodoxies" jumps-away-from-logic often go unseen. . . . e.g. "Big Bang" theory? BUT if, "IN SPACE, NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU. . . !" - then, what "bang" exactly?
As for the deregulation of the city of london, its effects upon pensions, the crash, then DotcomBOOMbust. . . . the old testament Adam Smith disapproval of the way people that use other peoples cash screw things up is but a small hint of the weird voodoo "e-con-omics" of the 1980s momentary lapses of reason that have made such a distortion of what is, in fact, "economical or wasteful", into some strange cult with its own mumbo-jumbo-that-mustnt-EVER-get-questioned that it seems very much, sometimes, as if it was set up by a much smaller group of insiders that had somehow figured out a way of getting a rake-off from the very worst excesses of the dodgiest insider dealers.
. . . . the re-interpretation of the 14th amendment of the USAs constitution was A BIT weird - to allow corporations to have all the protections under the law as "natural citizens" - . . . .
( - in fact, the clerk of the court that gave that re-interpretation waited for the actual Judge in the 1860s (?) case TO DIE, THEN wrote down the "new interpretation" . The case was actually about railroad fencing ! - The clerk was rewarded, even if the text was reworded. )
. . . . BUT the WEIRD WEIRD WEIRDNESS of the 1980s "deregulations" is far exceeded by its current vogues. ( "rackets within rackets, glasshopper, when you too are a grinmoister of oz, you too shall comprehend, but as the young earswet near-adept that you are, you must trust us (trussstusstrusssstusss(TO FADE)) - or, in fact, think somebody else explained it really perfectly that time but you werent paying attention, or are you stupid or what(.... assumes dalek voice:
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
THE-EMP ERORS-NEW-CLOTHES-ARE-GREAT-SUPER
or are you stupid or what?
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"the future is a free good"






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