5.0294 Responses: Emily; Thanks; BCE; Freud (4/73)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 28 Aug 1991 17:16:34 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0294. Wednesday, 28 Aug 1991.
(1) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 19:00:37 CST (7 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Emily postnews
(2) Date: 27 Aug 91 14:11 -0600 (27 lines)
From: Donald MacRae <grfmacrae@brocku.ca>
Subject: Thanks for assistance
(3) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 12:11:11 IST (23 lines)
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0292 Responses: BCE/CE
(4) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 09:31:03 EDT (16 lines)
From: Judith Schrier <PRIMATE@BROWNVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0291 Qs: ... Freud
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 19:00:37 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Emily postnews
In answer to the question as to where to obtain Emily Post News, you might
try spaf@cs.purdue.edu. That is where I got mine, but some time ago.
Jim Marchand
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Date: 27 Aug 91 14:11 -0600
From: Donald MacRae <grfmacrae@brocku.ca>
Subject: Thanks for assistance
Some months ago I requested help from the HUMANIST to locate
books which dealt with the problems of minority groups in a
society determined to keep them in their place.
I had a number of responses and have recently managed to work
my way through most of this material. It occurs to me that my
colleagues in HUMANIST might be interested in the list I have
compiled, even though it is of rather specific interest.
My thanks to all those who sent me the following information.
Griffin, J. H. *Black like me*
Wallraff, G. *Ganz Unten* (Lowest of the Low)
Benur, Y. *My Enemy, Myself*
Linhart, R. *The Assembly Line*
Kamata, S. *Japan in the Passing Lane*
Cailie, R. *Travels Through Central Africa*
Conover, Ted *Coyotes: A Journey through the Secret
World of America's Illegal Aliens*
Don MacRae,
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 12:11:11 IST
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0292 Responses: BCE/CE; Trees (2/42)
Yet again on BCE/CE: from the point of view of Jewish scholars, the
reason for using these abbreviations is not to "get away from" the
Christian dating, but to avoid making statements that contradict
our religion; some might prefer "Common Era" to "Christian Era",
but I, for one, find it no more objectionable than (for example) the
"Seleucid Era" (dating from 312 BCE). The Christian Era is simply the
era by which the Christians count, and I make no religious statement
by using it. I would, however, make a religious statement by using the
term "B.C." (= "before the messiah", if one pays attention to the
meaning of the words; but I think that we are still before the messiah)
or "A.D." (= "the year of the Lord"; but I do not consider him my
lord). I use "CE" and "BCE" not because, in the mode that has become
popular in other contexts, I wish to remove "culturally loaded" terms
from the language, but because using the common expressions would
require violation of religious principle. When the publisher of my
book on women's property rights in ancient Greece objected to "BCE",
I simply wrote out longhand the statement that all dates were before
the Christian era, and expunged all the abbreviations. People dealing
with broader or more borderline periods may not have that option.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 09:31:03 EDT
From: Judith Schrier <PRIMATE@BROWNVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0291 Qs: USSR; Freud; Nairobi (3/33
> Freud and death
>
>I recall reading once a case study by Freud involving a man who thought he was
>dead. When Freud pricked his finger, causing him to bleed, the man simply
>asserted that this just showed that dead men bled too. Does anyone happen to
>know where I can find this?
> Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
I heard it as a joke, from one of the Yiddish comedians, the
punchline being, "Ah-HA! Dead men *DO* bleed!"
judith