Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:29:14 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Mark Newton'" <newton@atdot.dotat.org>, "'RossWheeler<ross@home.albury.net.au>'" <ross@home.albury.net.au>, "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd)) Message-ID: <39499F0A.16341799@bellatlantic.net> References: <200006141457.AAA57230@mail.theinternet.com.au> <200006141539.JAA21454@harmony.village.org> <39498F79.409EAA1E@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil, > > nor does it promote the worship of devilry. > > > > In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The > > Of course, they don't translate daemon as "akuma". :-) I think the best explanation I saw was of the difference between "demon" and "daemon". Of which the first one is supposed to be associated with devil and the second with a good spirit.\ Can't remember where I have seen it. Maybe in the McKusick et. al book ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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