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To: marcos who wrote (8379)	4/11/2002 4:03:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I just tossed off the wholly/holy as a cheap pun, but then got to looking them up, whaddaya know, they are closely related, both go back to the old english root hal-, the old german root heil- ... well of course, the holy is a construct designed to explain the whole ..... ? ... for those interested in such things ... some significance for sure, as even to ourselves the thoughts are channelled down into lingual terms Poet, i sure don't want to hurt anybody here ... please know that as a still-practising agnostic [and getting half-decent at it now after all these years], i try to doubt myself as well [edit] - c.f. has the rage still - #reply-17318961 ... as does Solon and many others ... but it is a tiresome thing, rage ... takes a lot out of the rager, and can interfere with laughing, and/or with kicking the shit out of the corrupt scum of the Commerzwaffe