AI and mythology - and let's stop the spirituality flaming (was: OTagain Re: food)

In some previous message, Marvin Johston wrote: It never ceases to amaze me how messages that start out pertaining to classic computers can become transformed into messages about food and then into messages pertaining to philosophy, mythology and religion. :-) To help steer things back on-topic, is anyone here familiar with AI programs pertaining to mythology used on classic computers?

I could reply with: Hey, why'd you leave out the other half, the Goddess that some of us also believe in? :-) ...although perhaps some of us don't believe in a God and Goddess literally, but as balanced manifestations of the divine. However... Let's please not have religious warfare on this list; the world has seen more than enough of that. Some of us believe in some form, or forms, of deity literally; some of us take an approach similar to that of Albert Einstein, an agnostic approach, and just consider it all to be a mystery that we don't have definite knowledge of, but feel that some form of deity and afterlife exist and still value spirituality, etc. Are these not all just different paths to the same thing, with more similarites than differences once the dogma is stripped away? There's n benefit to arguing or fighting over the differences... different spiritual beliefs work for, and are helpful to, different people. Then, there are the atheiests who don't believe in the spiritual at all - but it's not for me to censure them for their disbelief, just as it's not right for them to censure anyone else for their beliefs.

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