Re: The Need for Debate

Tom Wier:
> As Ray has already noted, this spawned
> great debates, so great in fact that a papal bull was issued in 1272
> and again in 1277 banning certain topics of debate in the University
> of Paris (not, notably, banning them in general), not so much to
> suppress dissent (the Pope himself had taught there and was a moderate
> theologically IIRC), but to keep tempers to a manageable level.
By analogy, then, this would make John Cowan the (of course, very
liberal) pope of Conlang.

Pope John II, to be exact -- successor to Pope John I, Pope Lars,
and Pope David.

[Am very very tightly crossing my fingers that the above is not
offensive to our papist brethren, but my confidence in my ability
to gauge offensiveness is running at low ebb.]

--And.