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Alex · 08-11-2010, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I agree, however I am happy that they FINALLY have a "sort by last name" option in contacts.

I don't know if Contacts is still a useless morass* but it was so much of one in the past that I haven't even been in that part of Gmail for a very long time.

* Automatically adding everybody I'd ever emailed kind of sucks when that includes approximately 5000 MouseAdventure players over the years. I cleaned it out once but then never went back.

Stan4dSteph · 08-11-2010, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I don't know if Contacts is still a useless morass* but it was so much of one in the past that I haven't even been in that part of Gmail for a very long time.

* Automatically adding everybody I'd ever emailed kind of sucks when that includes approximately 5000 MouseAdventure players over the years. I cleaned it out once but then never went back.

I created groups to separate out actual contacts from just a listing of people I've sent to. That's the best way. Most basic group is "My Contacts." You can also merge contacts, which is very useful for people with multiple email addresses.

Alex · 08-11-2010, 11:58 AM

Yeah, I started such a project once but then realized that the only contact information I'd ever keep for people is their email addresses and that is available anyway since I never delete emails (plus with many thousands of people listed to begin with, finding the 60 I actually wanted was a pain).

Plus it was so stupidly implemented I didn't want to reward them by using the service.

Kevy Baby · 08-11-2010, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MouseWife

I was talking with my 'The Bible is a Myth' son.

Well, the Bible IS a myth. In fact, I would say it is one of the better examples of a myth.

A myth is a story which may or not be founded in truth. For some reason, the word 'myth' seems to have taken on the connotation of being automatically an untrue story.

JWBear · 08-11-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Well, the Bible IS a myth. In fact, I would say it is one of the better examples of a myth.

I would say it's a whole collection of related myths instead of one single myth.

Kevy Baby · 08-11-2010, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

I would say it's a whole collection of related myths instead of one single myth.

True. I thought about that after I wrote my post and was going to edit it but got distracted.

Alex · 08-11-2010, 03:44 PM

That's ok, for the link you gave, the second definition fits using "myth" to include what JWBear said. Of course, the fact when most people refer to something as myth they are talking about definitions 3, 4, or 5, is why religious people don't generally like hearing their beliefs referred to as myth since those definitions do have the story either being untrue or at least having the truth of the story being irrelevant.

alphabassettgrrl · 08-11-2010, 05:18 PM

But that's the point of a myth- that it's instructive of something, whether it's true or not. "Truth" *is* irrelevant.

Ghoulish Delight · 08-11-2010, 06:08 PM

Except for adherents, truth is anything but irrelevant and referring to it as "myth" carries the implication that it is not, or at least might not, be truth. And for many, there simply is no room for "might not".

CoasterMatt · 08-11-2010, 06:11 PM

At this point, I might not give a crap.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	That's ok, for the link you gave, the second definition fits using "myth" to include what JWBear said. Of course, the fact when most people refer to something as myth they are talking about definitions 3, 4, or 5, is why religious people don't generally like hearing their beliefs referred to as myth since those definitions do have the story either being untrue or at least having the truth of the story being irrelevant.
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