>I'm not arguing about the semantics, and I'd hate to see another
>Webster's definition come across the mail, but I'd love to see
>another word without as many preconceived notions take the
>place of "religion" when describing a meme theorist's view of
>the world.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions?
The Extropians use "eupraxophy" (good practice, active wisdom),
a philosophy of life.
>It seems as though the Church of Virus is dynamic enough
>to survive it's pious proboscis being hacked off Ginsu
>style.
I still contend there are good reasons for at least keeping
up the appearance of a religion, namely it is the only way
to compete in that game. Still, I see your point about being
offended by the word so I may have to write a web filter
to do a word substitution just before the HTML documents
are served (half joking).
-- David McFadzean david@ideosphere.com Memetic Engineer http://www.ideosphere.com/~david/ Ideosphere Inc. http://www.ideosphere.com