Oannes

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 19 Mar 2012, 21:01 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:01:22 -0700
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:

> pets are just such beings, granted
> personality only by their owners' powers of projection.

Obviously you are not a pet person. They have personality; one cat or
dog is _quite_ different from another. (Hamsters, not so much...) What
they may lack is person_hood_.


> At any rate, if one were to worship one's cat, it would probably be a lot
> like worshiping an impersonal, finite god.

Ask an ancient Egyptian ;)

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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