From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 6: 3:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2851575B for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A101F78F; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA04075; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:03:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:03:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Straight-Dope on goatlike features In-Reply-To: <37B2C19F.EB1A1478@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > In http://www.straightdope.com/columns/990604.html Cecil answers the > question "What's the deal with Satan and goats?". Since every once in > a while someone mistakes daemon for demon and/or associates the cute > daemon on sneakers with the Judeo-Christian bad guys, I though it at least > a bit relevant for informational purposes. > > Mind you, what I know about it is that Satan was once an arch-angel > that went his own way. So if anything he(?) should be depicted as > any other arch-angel. You know, beautiful, white, fluffy feather like > wings, things like that. Though I can imagine the halo had to be left > at the gate . > > Roelof Oh man. Now I gotta stop eating Feta cheese? BTW, there would seem to be a tendency amongst neighboring cultures to demonize the other guy's saints. This would seem to indicate that, at least in anthro- pological terms, good and evil are a duality rather than a polarity, and are awfully subjective. Then again I had Greek food recently. Man, those goats are insidious. TFIC, Tom ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- Thomas Good MIS Coordinator Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message