[extropy-chat] Transhumanism: Teilhard de Chardin - Truth or Dare

Sun Nov 2 05:43:21 UTC 2003

At 07:48 PM 11/1/03 -0500, Eli wrote:

Why must Buddha be the mouthpiece of a future civilization to be 
respected?  Why can't he be an ordinary human, absolutely no different from 
you, in the midst of squalor and ignorance, who decided *on his own and 
without any help* to be nice to people?  Isn't this truth more tragic and 
heroic and beautiful and, above all, true, than any bad science fiction 
that might be written about it?  Why must the explanation sound mystical to 
be accepted?

Excellent.  Beautiful.  Yes.

Natasha

Natasha Vita-More
http://www.natasha.cc
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President, Extropy Institute  http://www.extropy.org
Founder, Transhumanist Arts & Culture  http://www.transhumanist.biz
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