[extropy-chat] Transhumanism: Diehard de Chardon - Truth (ric k)

[Emlyn O'regan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spike [mailto:spike66 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, 3 November 2003 4:22 PM
> To: 'ExI chat list'
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Transhumanism: Diehard de Chardon - Truth
> (rick)
> 
> > There seem to be many different types of atheism, that is to say
> > different sets of grokings that lead to godless views...
> 
> When one suddenly understands everything, it is sometimes
> called an epiphany.

When one suddenly understands everything, it should usually be called
serious delusion ;-)

> If an atheist wanted to express the
> epiphany sentiment while avoiding the religiospeak, perhaps 
> we could program our spell checkers to recognize the terms
> grokiphany and grokasm.  Example of use:  I studied all
> evening to no avail, but when I inverted the state matrix
> and integrated with respect to t, it all became clear in 
> a sudden and satisfying grokasm.
> 
> spike

grokasm (n): A explosive understanding of the fundamentals of some subject.
The subsequent requirement to mop up discarded pre-existing mental
frameworks usually involves kleenex.

Emlyn