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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force which also effects the future?
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 22:20:53 GMT
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In article <1994Sep14.025849.20921@news.media.mit.edu>,
Marvin Minsky <minsky@media.mit.edu> wrote:
[re idea that religion is "third largest industry in the world"]
>Interesting difference in interpreting the word "largest".  I meant
>"amount of time that people spend". But that reminds me.  I was in
>fact writing an essay about how people spend their time, but I got
>stuck because of myself not being quite typical enough.  
>[...] The best discussion I've
>seen, from a literary point of view, is the section toward the end of
>Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine" about how often he finds himself
>thinking about various subjects: (quoted without permission)

I can't help remarking that this evidence doesn't support your original
claim: Baker doesn't seem to spend any time at all thinking about religion
or government.  Unless we say that whether McCartney or Lennon was a 
better musician is a religious question.  :)
