To: nanetteclaret; Diego1618; Mad Dawg
"If a piece of furniture with a flat top and four legs has been called "table" for 2,000 years, you cannot decide that it should be properly interpreted as "chair." You can't suddenly change the definition of a word from the meaning it has always had, especially to serve your own purposes...".
Is maybe your claim of a 2,000 unchanged definition a tad overstated?
Do you know what a spider is? It is a frying pan (among other things. An arachnid for instance.). Both definitions are correct based usually on regionality. Get my point?
1,815 posted on
03/13/2007 8:35:20 AM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
To: OLD REGGIE
You know, Old Reggie, I don't understand why you come on these Catholic vs. Protestant threads. After all, you claim to be a Unitarian, which by definition, isn't even Christian. Like they say, you don't have a dog in this hunt.
To: OLD REGGIE
(too lazy to do my own research)
Do you know what a spider is? It is a frying pan (among other things.
Are you perhaps thinking of a "salamander"?
1,822 posted on
03/13/2007 8:57:27 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Now we are all Massoud)
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