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Re: Animacy in Sohlob

From:Simon Richard Clarkstone <s.r.clarkstone@...>
Date:Monday, October 25, 2004, 20:55
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Doug Dee wrote: >> In a message dated 10/24/2004 7:21:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >> bpj@MELROCH.SE writes: >> How abut plants that can turn to face the sun? > I'm undecided on that, for the personal reason that the Buddha > teaches that plants are insentient.
Ah, but what does the speakers' religion teach? Some other listed things that they consider animate suggest (to me at least) that their religion's idea of sentience could be rather different from that of Buddhism. -- Simon Richard Clarkstone s.r.cl*rkst*n*@durham.ac.uk / s*m*n_cl*rkst*n*@hotmail.com