[extropy-chat] "ExtropianTrash"-philosophy for a post-modernworldVS JW's]

[Mike Lorrey]

Those who convince themselves that religion and the religious are
purely or to a person irrational are themselves reaching irrational and
unsupported conclusions. Your atheism is as much an irrational religion
as the faith you left.

There are plenty of people who are completely rational in their daily
lives, yet are religious about that which is unexplained and
unexplainable. That you never were able to make the leap to that level
of mature spirituality is not the problem of those who were able to do
so.

--- Zero Powers <zero.powers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we'd be best off steering far clear from avowed
> irrationalists.  I suppose I have become like so many ex-smokers who
> after having kicked the habit completely abhor it and those who still
> indulge.  While I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to say that I
> abhor religious people, I can (and do) in good conscience profess
> that
> "the only good religion is a dead religion."
> 
> Or as Stevie Wonder once put it: "When you believe in things that you
> don't understand, then you suffer, superstition ain't the way."
> 
>
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/01E838D97B93BC78482569120002EB6B
> 
> Zero
> 
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:57:07 -0500, Extropian Agroforestry Ventures
> Inc. <megao at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> > Seeding the concept of transhumanism in existing religeons might be
> a
> > dangerous
> > thought but given the concept of "group loyalty" most religeons
> hold,
> > once established , it could certainly spread like wildfire?
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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