Re: virus: Is morality a meme? and some implications of an

B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Mon, 11 May 1998 23:05:54 PDT


Lawyers are the new heroes for liars, that's all.
By "liars" I mean relativists who think that all
truth is merely social convention and an agreement
to view things one way vs. another. Believe it or
not, there are other views than the correlation of
observed effects with each other ("knowledge is
epistemological" type statements like "the sun
exists because it is correlated to me having
breakfast" and other "scientific" statements).

Believe it or not, there are still "classes" of
people who do not understand truth the scientistic
way. For these people, lawyers are not the people
who set the standards (defining "priest class" as
"the people who set the standards"). Materialists
worship the corporate ceo's. Mentalists worship
academia. "Warriors" (those who see things from the
sensualistic view of "body") are inspired by
standards set by Generals.

The true priest class are inspired by priests.
Faith defines what is probable and priests define
what is possible (by sentencing half of everyone to
hell and "reversing" their deeds to imply what is
possible for the other half-- though the "other
half" is really equal to the condemned half, so
"standards" are defined as regards what is
impossible in a straight forward fashion).

In the exact center of this 4 part system (matter,
mind, body, and spirit) are the lawyers. Being all
things to all people, they are more properly "the
new *shamanistic* class". This is not a bad place
to be (misunderstood by everyone and defining their
own "truth" at everyone else's expense). But the
only way I can call this a priest class is if I
interpret "priest" to be "native american shamanic".
Though I believe that some would define priest and
shaman in similar terms; this is a very limited
definition (and probably shows bias against the
priest class as being merely charlatans or
contraries).

B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
http://www.window.to/mindrec
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