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A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government..
Last Thursdayism is a response to omphalism which posits that, by the same logic, the world might have been created last Thursday (or, by implication, any given date and time), but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth.
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Omphalism means A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government..
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Last Thursdayism is a response to omphalism which posits that, by the same logic, the world might have been created last Thursday (or, by implication, any given date and time), but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth.
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