Re: regarding the YINYANG post on extropians

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 09:44:02 MDT


Party of Citizens wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Party of Citizens wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Extropy is not a religion, but cryonics tries very hard to be one.
> > > >
> > > > We are addressing the same purposes that religion serves, and are trying to
> > > > achieve the same goals that religionists desire.
> > >
> > > Bull's eye.
> >
> > Show me some organization in society which DOESN'T address similar
> > purposes.
>
> Nice going, Robin Hood. I think you split the arrow in the bull's eye.
> "Ubiquitous religiosity"?

At which point, the term loses all meaning, indicating that someone is
trying to paint with too broad a brush.



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