On 16-7-2011 8:03, Warp wrote:
> Francois Labreque<fla### [at] videotronca>  wrote:

>>> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>   wrote:
>>>> It's a rather cool place. Go see it if you're ever in Rome. The whole place
>>>> is decorated with the bones of many centuries worth of dead monks.
>>>
>>>     Isn't that quite disrespectful of the dead?
>>>
>> Different cultures have different traditions, I guess.
>
>    We are talking about Italy here, not an isolated exotic culture somewhere.
>

Indeed we are talking Italy here. What makes you think that 19th century 
Italians did think the same as a Finish guy in the 21st century? Other 
than assuming your point of view is a general standard for civilized 
people because everybody you know thinks like you.

I don't mean that unfriendly. Most people, including myself, assume that 
their own view is shared by almost every well educated person. But, as I 
said, that is because almost everybody we know is from our own culture. 
I know a couple of people the age of my parents that have remarked that 
somewhere in the 60s they suddenly discovered that there lived a 
sizeable amount of protestants in the Netherlands. I.e. the Roman 
Catholics discovered that, the protestants found out about the Roman 
Catholics.

BTW this was also why I remarked about the heads of heads of department. 
That was also Italy. A tradition (IIRC) older than this chandelier.
I assumed you would be shocked if you found out that in Austin Texas 
they had the stuffed head of Dijkstra on display. (I would only be 
surprised). Apparently there are indeed different cultures in the 
western world.

-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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