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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 2, 2020 12:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <foozler83@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] atheists/religion<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>Maybe we could find a document (such as the Humanist Manifesto) or create one that includes all of our beliefs</span>…<span style='color:black'> bill w<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a transhumanist manifesto of sorts, the Extropian Principals, which is how a lot of us got here to start with. When I read this document in about Autumn 1993, it was ELECTRIFYING! Like a bolt from the clear sky. I remember thinking, this cat is saying what I have been thinking for a long time:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Philosophy/princip.html">http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Philosophy/princip.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Until I went looking for this, I didn’t realize how much our own Giulio Prisco did back in the olden days. Giulio, weren’t you one of the lads at Extro3? 4? I think we met briefly, ja? You were the guy who had that nice suit as I recall. There were four in your group as I vaguely recall, and you guys all had that style thing going big time. I got to thinking: OK, if this is an example of Italian people, no wonder they build such cool-looking cars.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>