<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>> Or what will be the future of religion anyways?<br>> posthuman believing in God... Can you?<br><pre>>Yes. It's very easy to imagine that.<br><br>Not only believing in God, but actually being polytheist! ;)<br><br>Now really, You cant ever rule out God, you can always believe the environment you are in<br>is a "game" designed by IT, even paradoxes than could prove it impossible, could be "by design"..<br>bottom line: you can always make money on religion =]<br><br>With that said, it is amusing how you humans are designed to be ironic, i guess its god's fun (how else would one have fun after billions of years - by the way, join my church: Murphy is God)<br>you get "illuminated" out of one religion just to go into another.. haha, and it happens all the time! I never get bored, not even after billions of years.<br><br>[]<br>M<br><br><br></pre><br>--- Em <b>sáb,
17/5/08, Bryan Bishop <i><kanzure@gmail.com></i></b> escreveu:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">De: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com><br>Assunto: Re: [ExI] Christianity: where to now?<br>Para: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>Data: Sábado, 17 de Maio de 2008, 19:49<br><br><pre>On Saturday 17 May 2008, M1N3R wrote:<br>> Or what will be the future of religion anyways? I'm interested in<br>> material on the topic, mainly connected to the Catholic Church. If<br>> they must change, then how? And how is Christianity compatible with<br>> most of the future models presented here? I just can't imagine a<br><br>Suppose the singularity occurs; what then? There will be a few billion <br>people that are behind the times. Many of them will suddenly have tools <br>and technology that they otherwise never had before. So this would mean <br>that you
suddenly have billions of people very intensely interested in <br>something that they have never seen before, something that offers them <br>hope [and possibly doom] for themselves, their children, parents and <br>their villages. What would help ease the transistion, should they want <br>one? By transition I mean training and education about what's going on <br>and how to upgrade their shock level. What would help the medicine go <br>down? A spoonful of sugar? <br><br>Anyway, in Zindell's novels as well as in Orion's Arm, there's no <br>indication that Catholicism or the 'Kristians' [as Zindell calls them] <br>are made impossible in a post-singularity scenario. But frankly, when <br>you have a live demonstration right in front of a young kid, who are <br>they going to believe? Prayer for a cure to a disease, or a machine <br>that can deliver? Hm. <br><br>Breaking up old, crusty social institutions is an interesting topic. How <br>would you do this
without stepping on too many toes? Reform of <br>institutions isn't exactly something that humans are specialized in. <br>Especially since most institutions are supposed to last forever (the <br>U.S. Experiment didn't have a due date).<br><br>> posthuman believing in God... Can you?<br><br>Yes. It's very easy to imagine that.<br><br>- Bryan<br>________________________________________<br>http://heybryan.org/<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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