Re: Cryonics \"Meme-bites\

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 22:51:11 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:

>It's hard to argue with that kind of Truth. It is probably
>counter-productive to tell people who have this as their basic,
>unquestioned and perhaps even unconscious baseline that you wish to
>`extend' or `maximize' or `optimize' lifespans. You might as well tell them
>you're planning a pact with Satan to obtain some more of that deadly fruit
>of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil...
>
I am concerned that those infected with the scriptures-as-
divine-truth meme will attempt to destroy Alcor, either by frivolous
lawsuits or old fashioned panicky mob surrounding the castle.
Genesis 3 describes Adam devouring the fruit from the tree
of knowledge of good and evil, which was adjacent to the
tree of life. Verse 22: "And the Lord God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, (ever wonder who is "us"?) to know
good and evil: and now lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." god drove
him and Eve outta the garden.

Since the christians, muslims and religious jews all have that
chapter right up front, we have something to fear from the
militant wings of each of these outfits wanting to prevent the
corpsicles from becoming immortal sinners. They outnumber
us by about six orders of magnitude. {8-[ spike



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