[extropy-chat] Re: themes in anti-transhumanist arguments

[Mike Lorrey]

--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Or if he did mean Enoch, he was referring to Genesis
> > chapter 5 verse 24, whereunto it sayeth:  Enoch
> > "walked with God; then he was no more for God took
> > him."
> > 
> > I suspect however that what actually happened 
> > is that Enoch walked, then he was no more, for 
> > two or three Philistine heatherns took him, and 
> > whacketh him with a baseball bat, wherefore to 
> > taketh away his myrrh.
> > 
> Nay. For though Enoch walked in the Alley of the
> Shadow of Muggers it plainly states that he walked
> with God. And God was parked nearby. They probably
> went to Denny's. ;)

This was also prior to the Flood, so Philistines were not yet even a
twinkle in the eye or a stain on Phil's toga.

Enoch, though, sounds to me like he used to walk around talking to his
invisible friend, i.e. he was likely suffering from a mild form of
Tourettes or was schizophrenic, then fell into a fugue state and a
coma. At least his grand-kid was productive and built a big gopherwood
box when his invisible friend told him to...

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"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://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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