<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">The Avantguardian</b> <<a href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
avantguardian2020@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>--- Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> In the end, the will to<br>> survive, or even the will to see the world survive,
<br>> is just an axiom of EP,
<br>> without any deeper justification.<br><br>This is precisely the line of reasoning that led me<br>and my fellows Ascensionists to conclude that the<br>world would benefit from a transhuman religion that<br>held the status of being alive as the most holy and
<br>sacred gift imaginable. The only thing holier than a<br>human life is more than one human life.<br></blockquote></div><br>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.
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<br><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou