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Originally Posted by greytone
I may be a little over the top compared to most of the posters, but I think there is a special level of hell for those who disturb my peace in my home.
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Nothing in Dante's about telemarketing or interrupting dinner but Circle 8 is the destination for sins of Fraud: Pimping and Seducing.
I like the punishments:
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these figures are physically--and repeatedly--sliced apart for eternity in hell. ...for the falsifiers, whose corrupting influence--on metals (alchemists), money (counterfeiters), identity (imposters), and truth (liars)--is reflected in their diseased bodies and minds in the tenth and final pit of circle 8, the realm of fraud.
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What strikes me as sad is that the callers are often desperate and themselves victims of the larger problem. "I had to get money somewhere." That's a classic if immaterial defense of many parasite occupations.
Tough to work up much sympathy, but next time I'll remember to apologize for feeling indignant at the uninvited incursions on my time and peace within my own home. Twats.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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