[extropy-chat] TransColloquium Meeting: Dealing with New Pope'sCampaign

[Dirk Bruere]

scerir wrote:

>From: "Natasha Vita-More"
>Extropy Institute is calling for a meeting at the TransColloquium for
>Transhumanist organizations to discuss strategies for dealing with the
>potential for conflicts that might arise from the Pope's declaration
>concerning the moral relativism and the "cultural wars". This is a global
>issue for transhumanity.
>
>Cardinal Ratziger wrote pages and even books
>about "relativisms" (religious - as the central problem
>for faith; moral; cultural; etc.).
>
>"I would say that today relativism predominates. 
>It seems that whoever is not a relativist is someone 
>who is intolerant. To think that one can understand 
>the essential truth is already seen as something 
>intolerant."
>- Ratzinger
>
>(Are there "essential truths" in Transhumanism?)
>
>  
>
Yes.
That it's better to have the choice of being enhanced to PostHuman than not.
And screw what anyone else thinks who disagrees with that essential truth.

-- 
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
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