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Re: The Bible is False

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From: Danie|_ Swan
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:37
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In article <tNVod.321159$%k.110293@pd7tw2no>, you.dont.get@it.com says...
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>>>There will always be some level of balance. The more people there are 
>>>that believe something, the less they have to believe it, to keep hold 
>>>of their 50% weight. If there's just 1 person who believes God is a 
>>>sardine on some moldy old pizza that talks to him and that the earth is 
>>>an inverse loop, which there most certainly is, SOMEWHERE, that's all it 
>>>takes to balance out all those who believe otherwise. 
>> 
>> 
>> Balance what, psychic energies?
>> 
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>No, that's all it takes to balance out the whole.

The whole what? 

> One person who follows 
>something with an intense, blinding zeal, is all it takes to balance out 
>what the rest of the universe may think.

I don't really get your meaning, but it brings to mind a favorite quote from a 
book published in 1841 called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness 
of Crowds in the chapter 'Crusades':

"Any maniac can kindle a conflagration, but it requires many wise men to put it 
out."

check it out, the full book is online here, fascinating stuff:

http://www.litrix.com/madraven/madne001.htm
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