From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 17:25:06 MDT
Religeon uses social pressures to enforce all those good social values.
All that aside if looks at the end result, a less vicious or corrupt objective, it would not be a wise thing to push religeon into
oblivion.
Once said in business school " the most successful businesses are born from meagre beginnings and tempered by savage, vicious
competition". Darwinianism has limits above which scorched earth happens.
Bio-diversity so to speak in cultural values provides checks, balances and safety valves so that darwinianism isn't taken to its
extreme and scorch the very earth it nurtures.
Forrest Bishop wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
> To: extropians <extropians@tick.javien.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: American Education (answer to Greg Burch)
>
> > Sometimes I also think that the typical extropian rejection of religion
> > has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Yeah we've excised the
> > mystical crap but maybe we've also tossed the civil behavior,
> > fellowship, charity, and compassion (admittedly, historically quite
> > limited) along with it.
>
> "Civil behavior, fellowship, charity, and compassion", and good manners, aren't religious values, they are simply good sense.
> Various preists and other plunderers have hijacked these quailites to mask their untoward intentions. Religious beliefs no more
> cause human dignity than wet streets cause rain.
>
> Forrest
>
> --
> Forrest Bishop
> Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering
> www.iase.cc
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