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People don't like it when their worldview is challenged, but I think it's still important to discuss these sorts of things. I sometimes refrain when it's clear the other party won't consider my words at all, but still...😅 On the thread's topic, modern marketing / advertising is the calculated process of removing free will from a subset of the population via scientifically tested techniques, thus, I do not believe it to be a moral action; magickally speaking, the closest thing would be mass mind control. Nonetheless, as a business owner, if your competition is using these tactics, your chances of survival drop considerably if you don't use them as well. When you have other people, such as your family and employees, on the line as well, the line between right and wrong is then blurred. Again, business is no different from warfare. If you wage war with weapons, your victims die quickly (ideally, most of the time), but if you conduct business, your victims die a slow and agonizing death. Both situations are still the responsibility of those up top.

There is a more direct relationship to other sources with the Psalms . Just like your thread shows us an origin for the Noah story , many psalms can be compared with the original Egyptian . Some psalms were said to be sung in Solomon's court or palace ( I am not sure if there was singing in the temple ? ) , it was part of the Egyptian rituals that these parts of the scripture seems to be drawn from ; Harpist with percussion back up . The word appearing in Psalms - 'Selah' - is interesting to look up . Comparisons with psalms and Egyptian hymns ; https://www.thetorah.com/article/psalm-104-and-its-parallels-in-pharaoh-akhenatens-hymn Papyrus rolls found in Tell el-Amarna revealed the full texts of more than a psalm of the Book of Psalms written in ancient hieroglyphs, and which preceded the Psalms of David written in Hebrew since more than 300 years. Together with historians from Berlin Museum, Egyptian Egyptologist, Selim Hassan, found three pages of Akhenaten's “The Great Hymn to the Aten” written to the sun-disk deity Aten, which were perfectly identical to those of the Books of the Torah, in spite of preceding the Psalms of David by more than seven centuries. They were inscribed on a right-side wall in Ay’s tomb at Tell el-Amarna, on 13 vertical columns at the entrance to the tomb. https://www.egyptiangeographic.com/en/news/show/332

Perhaps "principled behavior" is a better concept

have a cup of tea I'm sick of tea, can't we have all the forms filled out

162 pages later may be too late. But you can always start a new thread with this idea explained on page 1.

Hi neighbour (I’m Dutch) great intro. Welcome to the forum and warm regards to you too.

Welcome!