From: Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T02:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

Mental Guy wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:05:23 +0900, Joe Wiltrout 
> <wiltroutja@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If your definition of daemon matches mine of Demon, then I think that
>> demon is far from satanic.
> 
> The term is a little overloaded; while daemon and demon share an 
> etymology,
> the former spelling was chosen to unambiguously refer to greek notions 
> about
> lower demigods (rather than fallen angels), and they mean different 
> things
> at this point.
> 
>> It's origins maybe be from biblical history,
>> but people now-a-days use the terms "demon" and "demonic" just to mean
>> evil. And they use them alot in video games.
> 
> As far as I can tell, these days a lot of culturally illiterate fantasy
> authors (up to and including a lot of game writers) simply use "demon"
> to mean a sort of monster, whether evil or ambivalent.
> 
> -mental


Good idea. Let's go and sue Runescape, Dungeons and Dragons, World of 
Warcraft, Diablo, and every other company that uses the word Demon! 
Huzah!


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