Re: Telling time (wasRe: The English/French counting system (WAS:number systems fromconlangs))

At 02:30 PM 9/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:58:58PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > In fact, not *all* the Orthodox Churches want to celebrate Pascha on the
> > same date as the Western churches do.
>
>Well, obviously. :)
>
>The goal of the proposal was just to create one more item of common
>ground, a celebration of Easter on a date that is neither the result
>of Papist meddling (and therefore palatable to the Eastern church)
>nor an archaic holdover from less enlightened times (and therefore
>palatable to the West).  Note that I'm putting each side in terms of the
>other; don't try to read my personal feelings into this. :)
>
>Anyway, I don't think anyone had any illusions about the east and
>west unifying into a single church or anything. :)
Well, frankly, some of us were a little concerned that some of the people
involved might have had some illusions of attempting a unification.

Isidora

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