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Telling people that they are the chosen people, and that God loves them so long as they don't let meat and milk mix (along with a thousand other rituals), is very psychologically comforting and enables them to endure the scorn of their neighbors when they engage in the mercantile and financial disputes their neighbors despise, and to endure patiently the occasional despoiling by the local princes, rather than feeling compelled to rise in futile rebellion.

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If narcissism means "someone who doesn't want to be a fry cook at McDonalds", then I am a narcissist.

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