27 Mar 10
Originally posted by FreakyKBHPoint well made and substantiated and in terms of conventional wisdom and a truncated timeline, probably true.
I base that second guess on this:
"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain".
Since training is required for a field to be considered part of the pr ...[text shortened]... sacrifices, they were necessarily participating and passing on the profession of a priest.
Overall context matters. With pre/post adamic curse recorded human history in view, maybe not so much true.
27 Mar 10
Originally posted by BadwaterBadwater, please develop your first thought (regarding even corrupt/evil 'tax collectors'
Thief. As long as humans have possessed things others have been willing to steal them. If this is not in the top three then the list is fatally flawed. (I'd have to include the tax collector as a thief also).
Movin' on.
as functionaries or machinations crowd, rather than part of the elite for the moment).