[extropy-chat] (no subject)

[The Avantguardian]

--- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:

> From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:15 PM
> 
> 
> >I like "(no subject)" being the subject line on the
> topic of religion. Apt!

Indeed, especially for a Zen Buddhist Ascensionist. :)

> And, yes ... what is it good for? Absolutely
> nothing! :)

That, like the physics of all else, depends on your
point of view. To quote Seneca the Younger, "Religion
is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise
as false, and by rulers as useful." Christianity
proved useful to both Constantine and Bush.   

 


Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us 
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." 

-Galileo Galilei

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