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ChairmanAgnostic

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5. there will always be another Great Depression, or equally cataclysmic event
Thu Dec 27, 2012, 01:22 PM
Dec 2012

but in those future times, people's knowledge base will have been so improved, that the idea that an angry god or goddess caused an earthquake or a tsunami, instead of a tectonic shift in the earth's crust, or that a devastating drought was due to a lack of prayer, instead of global climate change, will be exceedingly rare. Not gone, but rare.

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