From: Regina Pancake (regina@appliedfx.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 14:58:31 MDT
At 01:51 PM 8/25/02 +1000, you wrote:
>At 06:42 PM 8/24/02 -0700, Regina wrote:
>
> >The show wasn't pushing her point of view was it?
>
>Not at all, it was a popularized `medical' program. My point was simply
>that we scientifically oriented people probably don't grasp how profoundly
>and *deeply* such ancient wrong theories/constructs/memes are embedded in
>the world picture of many fellow citizens.
and old boss of mine once told me that "the Pyramid is always widest at the
base."
This particular wide base in the population has been around with this
belief system for literally ages and ages.
I guess what you experienced in that moment of anger and sorrow was a
glimse of the wide depths of this abyss of ignorance. Scary huh?
>Suppose the majority of citizens accept this model (I rather doubt it,
>actually, or there'd be more resistance to heart transplants). Then
>cryonics would be in even deeper trouble than we'd predict, because all
>that's preserved in the many neurosuspension cases is the head--the *cold,
>unfeeling, calculating, soulless brain*, cut off not just from the soul but
>from the heart, that center of feeling and love. It's hard to correct such
>a strangely old-fashioned misunderstanding if we don't even know that many
>people remain caught in its grip.
>
>Damien Broderick
Many a religion has this belief already built in with Golims and walking dead.
Lucky for us, its not real popular with the first world crowd.
R
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