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   Noah Sombrero to All   
   Re: would banning usury cause our econom   
   10 Jan 26 10:18:09   
   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:05:29 -0500, Noah Sombrero    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:18:25 -0800, dart200   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >Using the biblical definition:  lending money for interest (any   
   >interest)?  No doubt.   
   >   
   >>so like, we are then addicted to usury...   
   >   
   >>this is just the state of the species?   
   >   
   >One wonders how a hunter gatherer species evolved such tendencies?  It   
   >is too soon to decide that h/g behaviors have evolved out of us.   
      
   The bible specifically says a number of times that those who reap but   
   do not sow are a particularly pernicious evil.  You have to give the   
   devil his due, sometimes the bible is right.   
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