[ExI] No gods, no meaning?

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 02:32, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…So I ask:  is religion playing a good role in their lives, or a bad one?
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> Perhaps I am the wrong one to ask, for I know personally people who have
> been changed for the better by religion.  Hey it works for them, even
> doublethink.  I am not capable of it myself, but if it works for them, who
> the hell am I to judge?  Thinking right isn’t everything, it isn’t the only
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> Another way to say it: if you needed surgery who would you rather have,
> Dr. Leonard Bailey, or… the right-thinking you know who?
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> So would I.
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> >…Bad might mean that they deny reality in other areas of their lives,
> are way too credulous ($ to Nigeria maybe?), and so on.
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> It has long been a fantasy of mine if I made a buttload, a really fun gag
> I would play: get an actual literal Nigerian prince, put up the money
> behind him, say 2.47 million US dollars, and see how long it takes him to
> give it away to an American person he heard was a worthy sort, reliable, of
> good character, that sorta thing.
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> The prince could send one email a day, worded in his own perfectly
> authentic classic Nigerian prince style.  He would get a commission if he
> managed to give away the money.  He has to get the gullible person to hand
> over their bank account number, at which time the Prince would deposit the
> actual literal money into that account, exactly as he said he would.  Then
> we watch what the gullible victim does once he or she sees all that money
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> Oh that would be a hoot.
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> I suspect that prince would go thru a lot of people before he managed to
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> Opiates of the people - necessary?
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> bill w
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> Whelp.  Billw, I would hafta conclude that opiates really are necessary
> for some people.  But hey I don’t know everything there is to know.  Do
> you?  Does anyone here know everything there is to know?  Neither do I.
> But I am learning.  I will let ya know when I know everything.
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I have an associate who, when she was a student, had a job in a shopping
centre promoting a certain telephone company. One of the promotions
involved standing with a basket full of $5 notes and handing out the notes
to anyone who walked past (because the company’s phone deals were so good
it was as if they were handing out money, get it?). The surprising thing
was that a large number of people refused the cash, looking at her
suspiciously, even avoiding getting too close to her as they walked past as
if afraid she was going to hurt them in some way. There was no catch, just
take the $5 from the charming young woman and walk off!

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Stathis Papaioannou
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