From thinkit8@lycos.com Tue Oct 16 23:30:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 17 Oct 2001 06:30:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 47039 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 06:30:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Oct 2001 06:30:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n33.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.2.114) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 06:30:47 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.4.67] by n33.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Oct 2001 06:30:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:30:44 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: if lojban is logical, why are we doing the Bible? Message-ID: <9qj8ik+hf5u@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 513 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Yahoo-Profile: thinkit41 the Bible is a great source of irrationality today. from gay bashers to creationists, i see it breed a lot of mob think and illogical beliefs. lojban being a language for intelligent and logical people, i would hope most or all of the users are atheist. the only reason i see to translate the Bible is the great wealth of other languages it has been translated into for comparison. but i suppose it appropriate that Alice in Wonderland and the Bible are the first major projects--both are fairy tales.