<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Very progressive post, Alan! Transhumanism isn't supposed to be a cure for fear of death but that seems to be the way many people, primarily males, engage with it. It's a Gaian trick to encourage you to develop technology! Evolution never stopped!<br>
<br></div>We're all probably going to die. But hey, God is real and the afterlife might be too! Why not help out the future generations in any case? If you spend your whole life trying to preserve your individual physical consciousness, you're not going to be very happy in the case that it doesn't work out.<br>
<br></div>Eggs in one basket!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 7:53 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Your fatalism is driving me nuts, Eugene.<br>
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</div>Don't worry too much Alan.<br>
German philosophers have a tradition of the misery of existence,<br>
tragedy and suffering.<br>
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I think it has a lot to do with the winter climate. ;)<br>
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