On Aug 19, 12:05 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Simon Forman <sajmik...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Ben Finney<ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > > wrote: > > > We're all unified by our humanity. Bringing any god into the picture > > > is surely counter to any goals of unity. > > > Unity "in humanity" is, to my way of thinking, the same as Unity "in > > God". > > Then you're playing Humpty-Dumpty games with words. You know very well > that “God” has established meanings entirely different from “humanity”, > and those meanings played a part in your choice of that word. > > I maintain that you can't consistently make a declaration in favour of > human unity and unfounded religious assertions. > > > I think Unity, like None, is a built-in singleton, so to speak. > > This is white noise. > > > >> We are one family. > > > > Agreed. > > > <3 > > I think we can peaceably leave it at that.
Hear hear! (FWIW, I've always admired Humpty Dumpty's attitude to words. Have you ever read R.A. Wilson's "Quantum Psychology"?) Regards, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list