
Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber
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The Debt of Sacrifice
A man being born is a debt by his own self. He is born to death, and only when he sacrifices does he redeem himself from death. And these early commentators were themselves sacrificial priests. Is thus called tribute paid to death, or such was the manner of speaking in reality. Any one, then who lives a proper life is constantly paying back existential debts of one sort or another.
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