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Samantha Atkins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Go ahead. It already was published on WTA. Thanks.
- samantha
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Here is one possible topic name, one line, and opening to Canonize
Samantha's post.<br>
I hope some of you guys can help me out and come up with something
better than this. Any ideas?<br>
Samantha, what would you like to have for the 25 character name and the
one
line? Since this is your post I would think your opinion should have
absolute overriding control on something like this.<br>
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(see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://test.canonizer.com">http://test.canonizer.com</a>)<br>
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Topic Name: <b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spiritually
Moved H+</span></b><br>
One Line: <b>Other thoughts on transhumanism and religion.</b><br>
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In May 2007, Samantha Atkins made a post to the ExI, and WTA
e-mail lists.<span style=""> </span>It was such an obvious hit
that it has been “Canonized” here.<br>
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<o:p></o:p><br>
I remember in 1988 or so when I first read Engines of
Creation.<span style=""> </span>I read it with tears streaming
down my face.<span style=""> </span>Though I was an avowed
atheist and at that time had no spiritual practice at all, I found it
profoundly spiritually moving.<span style=""> </span>For the
first time in my life I believed that all the highest hopes and dreams
of
humanity could become real, could be made flesh.<span style=""> </span>I
saw that it was possible, on this earth,
that the end of death from aging and disease, the end of physical want,
the
advent of tremendous abundance could all come to pass in my own
lifetime.<span style=""> </span>I saw that great abundance,
knowledge, peace
and good will could come to this world.<span style="">
</span>I cried because it was a message of such pure hope from so
unexpected an
angle that it got past all my defenses.<span style="">
</span>I looked at the cover many times to see if it was marked "New
Age" or "Fiction" or anything but Science and Non-Fiction.<span style="">
</span>Never has any book so blown my mind and
blasted open the doors of my heart.<o:p><br>
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</o:p>Should we be afraid to give a message of great
hope to
humanity?<span style=""> </span>Should we be afraid that we
will be taken to be just more pie in the sky glad-hand dreamers?<span
style=""> </span>Should we not dare to say that the science
and the technology combined with a bit (well perhaps more than a bit)
of a
shift of consciousness could make all the best dreams of all the
religions and
all the generations a reality?<span style=""> </span>Will we
not have failed to grasp this great opportunity if we do not say it and
dare to
think it and to live it?<span style=""> </span>Shall we be so
afraid of being considered "like a religion" that we do not offer any
real hope to speak of and are oh so careful in all we do and say and
dismissive
of more unrestrained and open dreamers?<span style="">
</span>Or will we embrace them, embrace our own deepest longings and
admit our
kinship with those religious as with all the longing of all the
generations
that came before us.<span style=""> </span>Will we turn our
backs on them or even disdain their dreams - we who are in a position
to begin
at long last to make most of those dreams real?<span style=""> </span>How
can we help but be a bit giddy with
excitement?<span style=""> </span>How can we say no to such
an utterly amazing mind-blowing opportunity?<o:p><br>
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</o:p>- samantha<br>
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