[ExI] The void left by deleting religion

[spike]

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> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 8:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] The void left by deleting religion
> 
> On 5/4/07, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > there is no hurry to sleep.  The quiet and often remarkably profound
> > discussions continue until well after the clocks are showing single
> digits.
> > We eventually go back to our room filled with the satisfaction of time
> well
> > spent, looking forward to repeating the cycle next Friday night.
> >
> > Eli my young friend, THAT is what I miss.
> 
> I wonder if that is a loss of religion or a loss of age-specific
> innocence?


Ja, I see your point.  The place and time I described has a delightfully
wholesome retro-ness about it, even today.  I go back for class reunions
occasionally and to see my old roommate.  He went on to get a PhD in
electrical engineering from Purdue, returned to our old school, teaches
there to this day.  

I am always happy to see old friends, but it is never the same.  Some of
those old friends live in the neighborhood here; we get together often.
Tomorrow in fact, with four couples from those days, with them I shall be.
But that isn't the same either.  Without the belief, the endorphin rush
isn't there, for me anyway.  I will ask how it is for them.  Some still
believe. 

Religion is a drug.  It can be addictive.  How well I know this feeling and
the feeling of giving it up.

That being said, the extro-schmoozes are a total blast: very cool
discussions there happen.  Too bad we don't have anything analogous to
Friday evenings at old Walla Walla College.

spike