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7 months agoThat’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Thanks. Other comments and replies have been alluding to this, but this is the only one that described the mechanism.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.