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krakensden on Oct 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work

"Of course other people had different and contradictory books, all claiming equally fantastical fiction as 'THE Truth'..."

Interestingly enough, the solution to that was to have the emperor sit everyone down and make a canonical version. Perhaps management theorists need a Constantine?

cubedice on Oct 8, 2009 [–]

Of course that 'solution' eventually led to the great schism and many different versions (king james, etc.). So maybe the deeper truth is that people enjoy arguing?

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