Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA28235 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:17:54 GMT From: <gvidan@EUnet.yu> Message-Id: <200103172211.f2HMBaH17770@smtp.EUnet.yu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:16:06 +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: The Demise of a Meme In-reply-to: <20010317181639.A554@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010316134430.AAA15543@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:44:26AM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
This Ghanaian magic spell would be a real meme(plex), right? Look at
how it became extinct... And, please, tell me if I can safely equate Popper's
World 3 entities with memes, as both are apparently causal? Apologies in
advance if my query's already been analyzed and replied to...
Thursday March 15 12:18 PM ET
Man Shot Dead As Bulletproof Magic
Fails
ACCRA (Reuters) - A Ghanaian man was shot dead by a fellow
villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof,
the official Ghana News Agency reported.
Aleobiga Aberima, 23, and around 15 other men from Lambu village,
northeast Ghana, had asked a jujuman, or witchdoctor, to make them
invincible to bullets.
After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two
weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check if the spell had
worked.
One of the others fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly
from a single bullet.
Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely until a
village elder rescued him, the Wednesday report added.
Tribal clashes are common in Ghana's far north, where people often
resort to witchcraft in the hope of becoming invulnerable to bullets,
swords and arrows.
Djordje Vidanovic
On 17 Mar 01, at 18:16, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:44:26AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> > On 03/16/01 05:29, Robin Faichney said this-
> >
> > >The concept of memelessness is most
> > >certainly a meme.
> >
> > Of course the _concept_ of memelessness is most certainly a meme.
> > But memelessness is not.
>
> Duh
>
> --
> Robin Faichney
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> (CAUTION: contains philosophy, may cause heads to spin)
>
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Dr. Djordje Vidanovic
Professor of Linguistics and Semantics
University of Nis, Serbia
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