From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 19:00:52 MST
2002.02.21 17:52:05, "Emlyn O'regan" <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au> wrote:
>To me, the pursuit of perfection would imply a process with a beginning & an
>end for each individual. Extropianism seems to imply a process of unbounded
>improvement, ie: a beginning but no end. This would seem to be a significant
>incompatibility.
So change the definition of perfection. Plato, as far as I'm concerned, was wrong and there is no absolute
definition of anything. A few years ago I encountered the idea that perfection = stasis = death; which caused a
shift to perfection = perpetual progress (in more words than that, but might as well use the Extropian
principle!). I would definitely consider myself a perfectionist, just my definition of perfection includes
change and never arrives at one static point.
cheshire morgan. Advance and never halt, for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,
for they draw only corrupt blood.
-Kahlil Gibran
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