From: Steve (steve@multisell.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 09:39:34 MDT
>Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:07:33 -0400
>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: Where exactly is that Kingdom of God?
>spike66 wrote:
>> Those of you with religion in your background, I know there
>> were some bitter experiences, but what about it? Overall,
>> was it a positive thing in some ways? A mixture? I want to
>> hear from Eliezer and his ilk (sorry, couldnt resist the ilk
>> thing) as well as some who may currently hold religious
>> views. spike
>I would call it pitch-black dead-of-night negative from beginning to end,
>but then I'm not exactly famous for my tolerance of life's minor
annoyances.
>- --
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
To displace the comfort-zone nanny religious human-era cults like Xiantity,
Zionism, Islam and the rest, we should promote much more of a feel-good
buzz around our, 'afterhuman' movement (in the widest inclusive sense).
The supernaturalist beliefs are conservative and regressive rather than
transforming and positive. We can do more with "natural magic" (science
and psychology) than the human-been priests and occultists. Religion is a
scam that wastes everyone's time ..... its exposure is long overdue.
Steve Nichols Posthuman ORG
http://www.multi.co.uk/identity.htm
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