[ExI] Going beyond EP

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 30/05/07, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the end, the will to
> > survive, or even the will to see the world survive,
> > is just an axiom of EP,
> > without any deeper justification.
>
> This is precisely the line of reasoning that led me
> and my fellows Ascensionists to conclude that the
> world would benefit from a transhuman religion that
> held the status of being alive as the most holy and
> sacred gift imaginable. The only thing holier than a
> human life is more than one human life.
>

I realised when I was in my early teens that nothing really matters, we only
think it matters because of the way our brains have evolved, and I found
this an enormously exciting and profound insight. Let me add that it didn't
in the slightest affect my attitude towards mine or other peoples' lives;
it's just that I felt I finally understood this attitude for what it really
was. I don't know if it was something about me, but I've never missed the
absolutes of purpose and ethics that come with religion, or even with
secular humanism.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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