From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Wed Oct 17 07:46:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 17 Oct 2001 14:46:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 40973 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 14:46:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Oct 2001 14:46:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 14:46:12 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:23:08 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:56:15 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:55:52 +0100 To: thinkit8 , lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] if lojban is logical, why are we doing the Bible? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin I suppose the main reason for doing the Bible is that it is the text most t= ranslated and the text that has been translated into the greatest number of= languages, especially the NT. Foolish though religion may seem, it is an empirical fact that many intelli= gent people are religious, and though on the face of it it would seem surpr= ising that a committed interest in Lojban could go hand in hand with a beli= ef in creationism, again the facts show that this is possible. Laziness prevents me from adding to this message, for the sake of cultural = neutrality, a bit of Koran translation ,=20 --And. >>> 10/17/01 07:30am >>> the Bible is a great source of irrationality today. from gay bashers=20 to creationists, i see it breed a lot of mob think and illogical=20 beliefs. lojban being a language for intelligent and logical people,=20 i would hope most or all of the users are atheist. the only reason i=20 see to translate the Bible is the great wealth of other languages it=20 has been translated into for comparison. but i suppose it=20 appropriate that Alice in Wonderland and the Bible are the first=20 major projects--both are fairy tales. To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com=20 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/=20