[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment CitizenAward

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 21:50:59 UTC 2005


--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> At 10:22 AM 1/10/2005 -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> 
> 
> >Further implication:
> >"Singularity" and "Rapture" are the same thing, as
> >viewed by different people with different takes on it
> >("Rapture" is a religious take; "Singularity" tries to
> >describe it in more scientific terms, but it's the
> >same event).
> 
> Aargh! 
> NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
> 
> It is NOT the same event. A convergent technological singularity is
> just what is expected to happen when specific technologies attain a
> certain degree of complexity, power and speed. `Rapture' is a
> mythical state of spiritual transcendence rising from a Christian
> belief system that includes a world 6000 years old, the physical
> return of Jesus to judge the just and the damnable, and other
> literalist fundamentalist foolishness. DON'T GET THESE MEMETIC WIRES
> CROSSED, OR YOU'LL SHORT-CIRCUIT THE UNIVERSE!!

Rapture is a mythical state of *some* kind of transcendance that is
described by many more than just Christian theology, nor does it depend
on an Earth created in 4004 BC. Refusing to hijack the rapture meme is
literally refusing to take necessary action in supplanting the
prescientific mythocracy. Just as replacing Christmas with Newtonmas
(as Christmas replaced the Roman Saturnalia), supplanting christian
theological precepts with rational transhumanist ones is necessary to
win the memetic war.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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