My point exactly, Slag. The universal function of the mind manifests itself in tribes completely untouched by Western etymology. The mind of a Western person is certainly likely to be cluttered up with all kinds of symbols and connections associated with Christianity's timelien, but that is not its basic nature; that is its content.

And to go one step further, the etymological legacies of which you speak are, in their nature, imposed laws of associative logic. That which DOES the associating, though, is as different from those rules and linkages as G.W. Bush is separate from some long-ago lifetime as a Buddhist ascetic in the 3rd century....WAY separate. :D


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