[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Samantha Atkins]

Why do you believe that atheists consider themselves superior?  Many 
don't in my experience.  Most i know of aren't the least interested in 
exploiting theists.    As long as we are concerned with who thinks they 
are better than whom we are stuck in the same old monkey shines.     
Personally I don't want to "exploit" anyone.  I do want to form enough 
of an integrating vision that we monkeys have a chance of growing 
beyond the limits of our evolutionary programming.   That is a pretty 
funny sort of exploitation.

On Mar 3, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:

> Imagine a group of people who lack a certain innate quality of the 
> psyche, faculty X.
> Their lives are both made easier in some circumstances, and more 
> difficult in others because they cannot understand in any depth what 
> it is they lack. They know the words for it, what effects are manifest 
> in other people, and tend to consider those who possess faculty X  
> themselves be irrational and enslaved by it. They have learned to work 
> around such foibles in others and even exploit them for their own 
> benefit. They feel themselves to be a superior kind of person because 
> they lack this obviously useless baggage.
>
> When X =  conscience we call these people psychopaths
> When X = spirituality we call these people atheists
>
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> Dirk
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