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> On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
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> > Racism -- the American equivalent of Theseus' ship.
> > Every board has been replaced, but it's still the same ship.
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> Wasn't it Jason's ship?
Nope. The Athenians were very interested in Theseus, pater patriae, but Jason for them was at best the subject of popular fiction.
-- mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
Unexpected Bedfellows dept. :
L'athéisme est immoral et aristocratique; l'idée de l'être suprême, et de l'immortalité de l'âme, est un rappel continuel à la justice; elle est donc sociale et républicaine.
-- Robespierre, contra Dawkins et epigg.