Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy Date: 3 Nov 2024 00:13:33 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <199392d0-9628-8177-2f3b-35b23a721dd4@example.net> <086607f1-2283-f7fb-ddf9-ac4766b06530@example.net> <1ea1cd67-c7f5-c7c8-1ab2-a4aeaea78a40@example.net> <995e327e-61c5-13d2-32ef-392039458505@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net x6SoNe31LCKvZ16owm0dlA8aZ6Ed/sFrFSUvR7ZbnJuUq5js1z Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dl04E7xT1C91HjcnxrNpa5/Gzbs= sha256:MgPu168Mfb1Uj1xCXZyT3t/CTuUdUI43sL8u347BJps= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228440 comp.os.linux.misc:60376 On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:03:34 +0100, D wrote: > I also have sometimes thought that one "super power" of christianity is > forgiveness and (in theory) an end to family feuds. > > If your ead Njals saga you can see the power of the family feud and how > damaging it can be to society when more and more people are dragged into > it. Jesse Byock is an archaeologist at UCLA and has focused on Iceland. Iceland and its Things are sometimes held up as an example of a libertarian society. In one of his books Byock characterized it as a society of feuding farmers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud Feuds weren't limited to Iceland. I can understand feuds. No blood was shed but after a perceived slight in the positioning in a funeral procession my mother never spoke to my uncle again. Likewise, after a disagreement about the care of their aged mother my father and uncle never spoke to their sister again. It made Christmas interesting. I'm not sure Christianity ever took completely in Germans where 'never forget and never forgive' is more likely.