Party of Citizens wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Party of Citizens wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it founded on truth...present and future? Does it stand for something
> > > other than truth? If so, what?
> >
> > Something founded on fact is not considered religion, since religion
> > relys on faith unsupported by any facts or testable phenomena.
>
> But grasshopper...I asked about TRUTH. Is that the essence of
> Extropianism? Are Extropians true believers?
We are not believers, belief hinders the critical faculties. We are
knowers and we extrapolate and theorize based on facts that are already
in evidence. We do not have faith or belief to the extent that
religionists do, since we insist on testability, Occam's Razor, etc.
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