1/ Today is Winter Solstice. We
WAKE UP to the DARKEST DAY of the Year.

2/ but hey, it’s 2020! So?
3/ this year, for the first time in 800 years, we have the same SKY EVENT that WISE men traversed and followed in ~4 BCE.

The CHRISTMAS STAR illuminating our way.... https://t.co/p0vqEn9x6o
4/ ... seeking, with COURAGE, to find WISDOM.
5/ Many of us have been AWAKE for several years, AWAITING the BIRTH of a NEW NATION...

an END to the Corruption, and a Govt once again By the People, For the People, Of the People.

HOW LONG do we WAIT for a BIRTH?

Ob/gyn's inform us it's
9 mo.
280 days.
hmmmm⤵️
6/ March 16, 2020 was the first day to Slow the Spread.
Our New Nation's CONCEPTION date?

With our NEW BIRTH DATE coming on WinterSolstice 12/20/20?
Birth = emerging from DARK to LIGHT?

Conception date = Conceived.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
CONCEIVED in Liberty
7/ the Wise Men's CHRISTMAS STAR appears today. We Celebrate the Wise Men's visit and Gift presentation to the Christ Child on Epiphany, Jan 6.

Epiphany = also a DARK to LIGHT DAy.
= a "light bulb moment" of Realization. https://t.co/x1fWlcmkFY
8/ We are also in between Hanukkah, 12/10-12/18, a celebration of DARK to LIGHT and a FULL MOON COMING Dec 29.

Today, Winter Solstice starts PHASE III of the Moon, before the Dec 29 coming Full Moon.

What's Phase III you ask?
https://t.co/5g1Nct3DL3
https://t.co/yQrD6cXwGQ

More from For later read

Excited we finally have a draft of this paper, which attempts to provide a 'unifying theory' of the long economic divergence between the Middle East & Western Europe

As we see it, there are 3 recent theories that hit on important aspects of the divergence...

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One set of theories focus on the legitimating power of Islam (Rubin, @prof_ahmetkuru, Platteau). This gave religious clerics greater power, which pulled political resources away form those encouraging economic development

But these theories leave some questions unanswered...
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Religious legitimacy is only effective if people
care what religious authorities dictate. Given the economic consequences, why do people remain religious, and thereby render religious legitimacy effective? Is religiosity a cause or a consequence of institutional arrangements?

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Another set of theories focus on the religious proscriptions of Islam, particular those associated with Islamic law (@timurkuran). These laws were appropriate for the setting they formed but had unforeseeable consequences and failed to change as economic circumstances changed

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There are unaddressed questions here, too

Muslim rulers must have understood that Islamic law carried proscriptions that hampered economic development. Why, then, did they continue to use Islamic institutions (like courts) that promoted inefficiencies?

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