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hyporational comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: drethelin 16 November 2013 01:36AM

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Comment author: Ritalin 20 November 2013 03:51:39PM 1 point [-]

Didn't Think This Through, huh?

Given how God is Amighty, one wonders why he didn't have all the bad people just drop dead where they stood, Kira-style. He did something similar with Egypt's firsborn, yes?

Comment author: Bayeslisk 22 November 2013 07:54:07AM 1 point [-]

Bizarre... it seems just like if a nomadic Bronze Age tribe had picked up scraps of tales from, say, Babylon and Egypt, embellished other collective memories, and created some out of whole cloth for political purposes!