Queen Elizabeth I was an idiot?
Jim F. -- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote: God gave Freud daughters so that he could pursue his intellectual work without having to worry about any oedipal male rivals. God messed up in the case of Mohammed, since ignorance of women is one of the weaknesses of Islam. As for Henry VIII, he merely exemplifies the problem common to all members of the ruling class -- their offspring tend to be idiots.
BobW
--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:01 -0700, joanna wrote:
>
> > I do think god has a wicked sense of humor as
> Freud, Mohammed, and Henry
> > the VII all had daughters and nothing but
> daughters and lots of them.
>
> "Henry the VII"? perhaps you mean 'Henry the VIII'?
> But he
> did have a son -- Edward 'the VI', as they say --
> who did,
> to be sure, die a short while into his abbreviated
> reign.
>
> An interesting list, these three. Not one I would
> have ever
> assembled. But I guess you could say they all
> founded religions.
>
>
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