From: Al Billings (memoria@memoria.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 17:14:26 MDT
QueenMuse wrote:
> > The dream world that some have painted for life after the mythical
> > singularity bears an amazing resemblance to the religious doctrine of
some
> > faiths.
>
> The correct wording could be that uploading fills a NEED that bears an
> amazing resemblance to the NEED that religious doctines address:
Immortality.
> HOW Spiritualists and Singularists percieve this endless life is QUITE
> different, though both require a lot of imagination and waiting.
>
> Maybe think of it as
> 'life after death' vs. 'life life life life...'
Spirituality doesn't necessarily have anything to do with life after death.
Not all spirituality is based on Christianity if that needs to be pointed out.
> First Queenely admonition, memoria: It's not good to badger Extropians in
> list forum. Some things are not negotiable. Cut it out. You're gonna waste
MY
> bandwidth on the resulting flames.
It must be expensive bandwidth then...
Al
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