RE: The Demise of a Meme

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 14:36:41 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:36:41 -0000
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    I don't know what happened to them, but in the 1980s there was an atheist
    choir in the UK. I don't know what kind of songs they sang....

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    > From: Wade T.Smith
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:57 pm
    > To: Memetics Discussion List
    > Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme
    >
    > Hi Vincent Campbell -
    >
    > >Isn't Bhudda [sic] an idol as in any other faith?
    >
    > Buddhism does seem to have an unlimited amount of physical accoutrements
    > required for its practice. More so than xianity? Yeah, I think so,
    > although high catholicism comes close in its collection of crosses and
    > jewelry and robes of offialdom.
    >
    > Having a statue of a buddha, and having a cross, do seem to be related,
    > at least in the outward revelation of one's faith.
    >
    > Can one be a buddhist without a belly to rub? Sure.
    >
    > Can one be a xian without rosary beads? Sure.
    >
    > I suppose atheists might have something to look at, sometimes, but I
    > don't know what that would be.
    >
    > If an indicator of a faith is its use of iconography, buddhism wins.
    >
    > - Wade
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