<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:00 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe there is something to this idea that when religion fades it's a troubling sign.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Not believing in irrational fantasies is a good thing, in itself. But, yeah, whether that's an overall positive thing or not depends on what, if anything, people do believe in. The old <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">BEST DO IT SO (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, and Spontaneous Order) Extropian principles would be a good basis for a rational alternative to religion.</span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Dave</font></div></div></div></div>