Sounder mailing list etiquette and future direction

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:26:42 -0500
charlie derr <cderr at simons-rock.edu> wrote:

> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> <snippage>
> > It seems that, no matter your personal feelings about it, religion
> > does /not/ include atheists.
> > 
> > Cybe R. Wizard
> 
> <cluebat alert>
> uh, religion tends to mostly be all about personal feelings, it's
> tough to try to remove that "by fiat"
> </cluebat alert>
> 
I think that most of the religious would disagree that atheists are
religious, though, personal feelings of atheists notwithstanding.
> 
> Cybe,
>     I get the feeling you're carrying this on perhaps because you
> have learned (by association with other geeks) to pray at the altar
> of pedantry :-]

ARGH!  I'm labeled once again as a geek!  It's not so!  I'm a retired
carpenter.

But the rest, well, perhaps...   ;-]
> 
>     Are you really going to hold to the position: "if I read it in
> some dict entry, it must therefore be universally accepted fact" ?

We /do/ need some method of agreement upon the meanings of words.
At the same time, we don't /have/ to agree on those meanings and there
are many meanings to many words but it does help in communication if
we do agree to a certain extent.
> 
>     You always seemed to me to be at least slightly more open minded 
> than that.
> 
>           ~c
> 
You sweetie, you are turning my head...

Cybe R. Wizard
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