Re: OT: Religious Development WAS: Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages)

On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 02:45  AM, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> It's hard to imagine what sort of path the older religions might have
>> taken if left to grow across a planet without
>> those major influences.  Would some other monotheistic,
>> prophet-centric
>> religion have cropped up, human nature being what it is?  Is there a
>> natural
>> point of cultural development at which something of the sort is
>> practically
>> inevitable?  Or would we have a planetful of people still following
>> the nature-religions; global not-so-neo Paganism?
>> -Mark
>
> http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1083&b=1&c=
> --
> Sylvia Sotomayor
That's hilarious!
But for some reason i can't find Mark's original message to which
Sylvia responded... did i just miss it in going through my emails, or
did other people miss it too?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "that's very twisted, but i like it.
   only you would come up with something like that."
      ~ (paraphrased) my friend k.
        after i told him how it's possible to re-analyze
        the sindarin name Tinuviel as a perfectly viable hebrew name
        (it's not *exactly* conlanging, but hey ;) )

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