Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 228.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (21)
Subject: not bending with the remover to remove
[2] From: "Chris McMahon" <pharmakeus@hotmail.com> (3)
Subject: Re: 14.0216 sexist naming
[3] From: mehrin@mindspring.com (10)
Subject: re: 14.0216 sexist naming
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:38:11 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: not bending with the remover to remove
Dear colleagues:
Allow me to suggest that if we wish to continue to discuss naming &c,
including the enumeration of the names of God, and other topics of quite
wide-ranging interest such as economic systems and their relative merits,
that we put such fascinating subjects into the context of humanities
computing or cease discussion of them altogether? Once upon a time, long
ago (when on Bitnet I was proudly and uniquely MCCARTY@UTOREPAS, like
Alcuin of York :-), Humanist was just about the only game in the global
village for folks like us. Now, however, there are many, for which see
<http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/>. Our focus can be fuzzy, discussions may wander
off the computational course, but humanities computing should always be the
ever-fixed mark to our wanderings, like true love in W.S.'s Sonnet 116. Let
me not to the pre-nuptial chat of true minds erect impediments, but as
Milton wrote, divorce can be what brings cosmos out of chaos.
Yours,
WM
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maui gratias agere
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:38:50 +0100
From: "Chris McMahon" <pharmakeus@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0216 sexist naming
If the universe exists so that Goid can be fully named, and the dying of
the universe is the becoming of God, then the name of God is obvious: "Four
degrees above absolute zero".
:) Chris
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:39:20 +0100
From: mehrin@mindspring.com
Subject: re: 14.0216 sexist naming
Good for you. Though a male, I firmly agree with you. Have been reading
writings of Clara
Zelkin and Rosa Luxemburg. Wish there were some around today. My gods and
goddesses
are equally divided. We humans, like all living forms, are rather pathetic
creatures, stumbling
along, seeking composite answers for which there is none. Every living form
seeks to survive.
None will. Each must make decisions, and use a context we can accept.
Attempts to
rationalize fail. mehrin@mindspring.com
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