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1/ Someone I know just posted this little video on FB from someone a member of “Patriotic Millionaires”.
I watched the video, and scoffed.
I watched the video, and scoffed.
2/ It was full of that double speak I’ve learned to suspect thanks to Thomas Sowell.
3/ It launches with a member, showing his total income from 2016 being north of $1MM.
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One big point is, he wasn't re-creating, he was creating, from his ideas.
One big point is, he wasn't re-creating, he was creating, from his ideas.
Every beginner at anthropology, every amateur at paleontology, imagines you can predict prehistoric life from say Kalahari Bushmen.
FALSE.
FALSE.
The Bushmen of the Kalahari developed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle only within the last 400 years, in response to invasions by Bantu peoples.
So that the threads don't get too long, new thread! Starting here.
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Continuation from here:
In fairness to me, although I passed on the offer of a spliff of elephant dung, I did try chewing a bit of psychoactive bark he recommended 
It did absolutely nothing for me. He swore by it as antidote to bad side-effects of smoking elephant-dung, but I suspected hyperventilation.
Today is #Reformation500! Which makes a really great intro to talk about revolution, millenarianism, body-parts magic & elephants.
First, this is interesting, & directly leads to elephants (see my later tweets). By @spulliam; #ProsperityGospel
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An aside: Luther mistranslated hyraxes as rabbits, which caused much confusion about kosher laws etc
#Reformation500, cc.@garetrobinson
#Reformation500, cc.@garetrobinson
