(02-16-2011, 02:40 PM)yossarian Wrote: Ra says bellicosity caused the decreased lifespan. Property rights just allowed people more subtle ways to express their bellicosity.
please read the second bolded sentence in the second quote, paying good attention to commas. it makes the meaning of the first sentence, clear.
Quote:The root cause in this particular society was not so much a bellicose action although there were, shall we say, tendencies, but rather the formation of a money system and a very active trading and development of those tendencies towards greed and power; thus, the enslaving of entities by other entities and the misapprehension of the Creator within each entity.
if we explain the above sentence in a non comma tied fashion :
the root cause in this particular society was not bellicose actions even though there were bellicose tendencies, BUT, rather, the formation of a money system and a very active trading and development of "those tendencies towards greed and power" , and in this fashion enslaving of entities by other entities .......
i dont know how it can be any clearer than this .... actually, this is the summary of our current situation at this contemporary times - enslaving of entities by other entities through greed and power of a money and trade system.