From: Jules Arntz-Gray (jarntzgr@uoguelph.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 10 1997 - 22:20:17 MDT
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Mark Crosby wrote:
> This sounds no different to me from the Christian Apocalypse &
> Resurrection. We're supposed to regress back into the womb, the void,
> from everything back to nothing, renouncing our worldly 'sins'! Isn't
> that wonderful? This is the death wish most whimpish religions aspire
> to rather than the rough and tumble, creative destruction of a truly
> pluralistic extropian universe. (It's also why I sometimes hanker for
> heroes and am eager to believe in boundaries for borganisms, and for
> creepy nanofog clouds of grey-goo clones out to consume the cosmos...
I'm no fan of the Christian meme but I don't think your
connection is quite right. Almost any religion sounds like the "new age"
idea, and some quite a bit more than Christianity. In fact it is a heresy
to consider yourself a minute portion of the one, the all, God etc. It
actually sounds more like the Omega point theory which some extropian
minded people put some stock in.
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"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things
remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..."
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
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