From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:40:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Missionaries (was: "Mormon Asshole?" re: GAK)
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:

> craigw@dg.ce.com.au wrote:
> > Most ppl believe what they are told to believe. Otherwise why would
> > there be so many ppl willing to take whatever the Govt servers them.
> > Afterall...The madia would not lie...;)
> 
> One example of a topic that most people (including very intelligent, 
> "technical" people) steer clear of:
> 
> Why is it that 95-plus percent of all people stay with their parents' 
> religion (more-or-less) when they grow up, instead of abandoning it, or 
> finding one on their own?  Simple.  The uncountable zillions of "bytes" 
> of information that go into your brain before you become more-or-less 
> conscious, so controls your mind by the time you are conscious, that 
> very few people can overcome this programming to any significant extent.
> 

Don't forget inheritance (my dad's a Southern Baptist minister ;)

 --Deviant
Live long and prosper.
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