[ExI] What's in a transhumanist name? (was: YES! to Transhumanism)

[Spargemeister]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eschatoon Magic <eschatoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good point Damien. I would reword "rational equivalent to a religion"
> as "rational worldview also open to artistic and spiritual
> sensibilities, _including_ god-free equivalents to the hope and
> meaning provided by religions for those who need them".
>
> I construct "Order of Cosmic Engineers" as:
> Cosmic = we are interested in cosmic visions, and have long term cosmic goals
> Engineers = we want to see visions and achieve goals through science
> and engineering
> Order =  a frank appeal to the inner eight-year old or WoW player

I thought it was based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer

Which I've never heard anyone criticize as juvenile-sounding.

-Dave