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Re: OT: [Let_It_Be_Forever_Islam] THE WORLD OF THE JINN

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, October 17, 2003, 2:36
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Paul Bennett wrote:

> I assume you'd scientifically balk at terms like "male" or "Irish", > too. > > There is a continuum of gender, not just mentally, but physically > too, with a number of different kinds of androgyny possible, and yet > we still talk, even in scientific terms, of "male" and "female".
Physically, there's no such thing as gender. You're talking about sex. Being pedantic because I think it's time to leave these discussions behind. They've been had in the archives, and like politics and religion, it won't get anywhere.
> OTOH, there are several very real basises(?) for the use of simple
Bases. (pr. \bay-seez\) -- Tristan <kesuari@...> From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr. Seuss

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