From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 23:10:57 MST
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 03/18/2000 8:39:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> rowen@technologist.com writes:
>
> > It is totally illicit for non-religious rationalists to attempt to adopt a
> > stance superior to theists by depriving them of rationality.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bob
> I'm not stating that its superior, or that I am not a theist. But there is a
> need for rational scientific solutions to the practical problem of death.
I agree, because you used the word "scientific"; you see, I consider "logic"
and "mathematics" as subsets of "Rationality" -- I suppose I have been
greatly influenced by Dr. Carl Jung who convinced me that what he called
"The Feeling Function" was as "rational" as "The Thinking Function".
> Additionally, there have been people dead for quite a while, who might need a
> bit of a push. That is, unless you wish to consider them dead forever, as
> most living people do.
This is fascinating. You must understand that the technologies I deal with
every day do not include cryogenics and nanotech. When I participate in
this list, I am not inclined to shop-talk, which means I take a philosophical
approach. I'm afraid I'm painfully ignorant regarding precisely those techno-
logies that are of greatest interest to Extropians. So would you be willing
to talk about this some more?
> This might not be your area of focus or interest, quite understandable. Yet
> jerks like me continue to look. Oh well.
I recall the inscription on the stone arch over the commons entrance at
my undergraduate university:
"The University concerns the Universe, within
whose Infinity have arisen Life, Order and Man"
Bob
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Director
The Orion Institute
57 W. Morgan Street
Brevard, NC 28712-3659 USA
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