The Sadness of America/Intelligent Design (multi-thread)

[Blake Stacey]

Quoting Rcfchess at aol.com:

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> In a message dated 10/11/2005 12:26:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> blake.stacey at ens-lyon.fr writes:
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> I  have no choice but to believe in free  will.
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> Blake
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> This sort of belongs with "I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict
> myself." [Whitman]
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I love to use that quotation to support the use of "they" as a gender-neutral
third person singular pronoun.  After all, if "I contain multitudes", and you
contain multitudes, and everybody around us contains multitudes -- why
**shouldn't** we say "they" when we don't care about their genitalia?

Blake