From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 09 20:28:14 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21365 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2000 03:28:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jun 2000 03:28:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta2 with SMTP; 10 Jun 2000 03:28:12 -0000 Received: from bob (209-8-89-168.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.168]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e5A3SBL68844 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:28:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000609232308.00b5cc80@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:29:15 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Could Lojban really help? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group It seems that Lojban has suddenly become a hot topic. Doing a deja news search I found some 60 mentions in the last month, most of them in the last few days on the science fiction newsgroups. I haven't quite gotten to the most recent thread yet, but the following discussion caught my eye, and I was wondering whether Lojban could indeed help such a, umm, soul out. Rather than bust my brain, I figured I'd let the list have fun %^) Tackle any of the indicated phrases, as you find them interesting. >From rec.arts.sf.written of 5/18/00 >Pete McCutchen wrote: > > Suppose we assume that God is not time-bound (just for the sake of > > argument). Now suppose that, after you were dead, God asked your > > spirit, "OK, was it worth it?" and then refrained from creating you if > > the answer was "no." Would that answer your objection? > >No. Because for me to be able to give an answer, I would have had to have >existed somehow, on at least some timeline, even if it's some weird >closed-loop thingy that means I never existed *to anyone else*. (Oh, >where's lojban when you need it?) Saying "can I torture you, then make you >never have existed?" is only a small step away from "can I torture you, >then give you amnesia so you don't remember it?" >_____________________________________________________________________ >Susan Stepney tel +44 1223 366343 stepneys@logica.com >Logica UK Ltd, Betjeman House, 104 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LQ, UK >http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/ http://www.logica.com/ lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org