Religion And Political Games Part 1

          "In congress and churches, they played the same game”

Where in Hell is this building built in 1954? Hint:A church still exists in America - California If you gotta build one, put it very near a beach[1]

Here’s how this little game proceeded. A group of teenagers with nothing better to do was divided into two groups by our tutorial. He gave us a set of game rules. These rules seemed simple and they would not change for the entire length of that game.     Each group, referred to as teams, will gather in different rooms and decide on what they would vote to earn points. During each turn in this game the teams could vote for 1 or 0 for any reason. When the teams met back together then they were both given their own results. Sounded simple right?     Here is a simple example of the way that this game proceeded. Those votes and results are incorporated in the following table.     I have also provided some explanatory notes for each voting round.

Team 1 Team 2 Scores Team 1 Team 2 Note Votes 1 0 Results +1 -1 #1 Round 2 1 1 -1 -1 #2 Round 3 0 0 +1 +1 #3 Round 4 0 1 -1 +1 #4   Sub  Totals 0 0 Last Vote 0 0 Totals +1 +1 #5

#1 {ME}When the game first begins there is a 25% chance that any one combination can happen. This is the way that we began with the results shown in the table. {TEAM}Well, these rules are too simple. By voting 1, it looks like we won. #2 Uh oh. We had better remember this. We both lost. #3 O.K. We both won the same thing. Is that good or bad? {ME}Who cares? Ultimately, this is the only way to ultimately have a positive result. Not negative or zero. {TEAM} We’re only pissed if the othe team wins MORE than we do. #4. Oh shit. We forgot. They won first and now we did and remember we are just restarting the same old war again. Fuck it. Let’s each have one relating member with the othe team who make sure that we DO agree before the next vote. #5{ME} It’s done for today. {TEAMS} O.K. It’s over. There’s still a TV in here. The football game is still on while the old ones are still wasting their time.

Our modern human species have been around a long time[2,3] (50,000 yrs.).  The US Congress[4] has been around a little less.  (227 yrs.).   Since the beginning of human history, everybody has always used the mentioned game above. Human future time? Undecided!

Will the game results ever change?  Nope.

Refs:

[1] LAUMC first built:   http://www.losaltosumc.org/history/ [2] Length of humanity(21/2Milll, 200,000):   http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution [3] behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human [4] First Congress (March 4, 1789):   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress [99] There are no more references today. That's rare. Maybe I just imagined this story.