Emlyn,
I think you missed Mitch's point. He is not praying to God for help to cure
us; he is asking for help in building God to be us.
Regards,
Michael LaTorra
mike99@lascruces.com
mlatorra@excite.com
3229 Risner Street
Las Cruces, NM 88011-4823
USA
505.522.5121
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 04:49:42 +1000
From: "Emlyn" <emlyn@one.net.au>
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_just_me=0E?=
Gods (or Godesses) aren't going to help us where we are going. Get over it.
Emlyn
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From: <Spudboy100@aol.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: just me_
> Not to get holy-roller on anyone here, but I agree with Samatha's
conjecture
> that if there is no God, then there is certainly room for one in a
Universe
> that includes suffering. What Samantha gets when she "recieves a lift"
from
> reading certain religious tracts is one of the religious experiences
> described by 19th century psychologist Willam James. Having a God module
is
> good if it connects one up with a sense of a better ethical system. If it
> leads only to the Inquisition torture chamber, then it's a bad bet. So I
am
> talking 'outcomes' here.
>
> Ultimately, it may turn out that some advanced primate species (humans)
once
> had a God module as part of their brain, and it helped them develop
computers
> that colonized the cosmos, which in the end leads to an ultimate Mind
(God)
> which fixed things that needed fixing (since it has ultimate computing
power)
> and help resurrect people such as Samantha! This is more inspired from a
> reading of Julian Barbour (The End of Time) as well as Tipler and
Barrow's
> Final Anthropic Principle. Talk amongst yourselves, i'm getting
ver-klempt!
> (sob!)
> -Mitch
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