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Re. brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Parse Tree parsetree at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 23 21:11:10 EST 2002


"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
news:0bNj9.60285$S32.3919092 at news2.west.cox.net...
>
> "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> news:v51rougg3ac1qppqf5fc9llgii0hlrtq0s at 4ax.com...
> > <raugust at ptd.net> wrote:
> > >You see, for the "six million Jews" that were "killed" in the
"holocaust"
> > >(read my earlier post regarding the real meaning of that word),
> >
> > Words mean what we use them to mean.  Just as "gay" no longer refers
> > only to how you feel on a bright spring day, holocaust no longer
> > refers to the inside of a nuclear explosion.  Live with it: the
> > language changes.
> >
>
> Why don't you live with the definition of RACE?  Jews are a RACE.  Live
with
> it.

Not really.  They're just as much a religion as they are a 'race'.  In fact,
they don't really have a common history or common physical traits.  They're
more easily and properly categorized as a religion.





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