<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"> Dave Sill <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​​</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Extropian principles would be a good basis for a rational alternative to religion.</span></div></span></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​No one on this list will argue with that.  But, unlike us, many people are not looking for a rational anything.  They want emotional things - some things to love, to hate, to be for, to be against, to rant on, to go to war for, to get insulted by, to fear - well, you get the idea​.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In the Deep South, the black churches I have been to for funerals are the epitome of emotional expressions very overtly acted out (lots of standing up and shrieking something and then fainting).  It's not about what or how we think. It's about how we feel.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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