From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Thu Oct 31 1996 - 23:45:57 MST
At 11:06 PM 10/31/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Someone reminded me today that x-tians took over the pagan holidays. Bede
>mentions this as well. It was a policy of the church to pronounce
>traditional, native holidays as being x-tian holidays as well. This
>helped them turn the tide.
>
>Perhaps extropians (or whoever) could learn from this and appropiate
>national holidays as their own.
David: We have begun to do this. Not many new holiday names have reached a
consensus yet, but the most popular one so far is December 25 -- Newtonmas,
or Newton's Birthday. Such a fortunate thing that a truly great physicist
was born on that day...
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
President, Extropy Institute
more@extropy.org
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