Re: The meaning of philosophy and the lawn chair

From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 18:11:51 MDT


In a message dated 6/20/2001 2:52:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
memoria@memoria.com writes:

> It would be safe to say, perhaps, but neither you nor anyone else is in the
> position to define someone else out of Transhumanism. You don't have that
> authority.

Of course no one claims "authority" over use of the term "transhumanism", but
if one denied the existence of god, that the bible was divinely inspired and
the occurrence of miracles, it would be incorrect for that person to call
themselves a "Baptist", wouldn't it? It certainly seems like it would be
justified for people who did subscribe to all those beliefs to point out the
incorrect use of the label . . .

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