Anders wrote,
>Seriously, it is interesting to note that so far we have (to my >knowledge) [not] been attacked by religious fanatics. This might be a good >sign or a bad sign, depending on your view.
Happily, it seems religious fanatics spend too much time quarreling among themselves to take up a quarrel with extropy.
On the "No Singularity?" thread, John Clark agrees with Lyle Burkhead, who wrote:
>hang on for another 20 or 30 years, *and* if you affiliate yourself
>with the right group, it won't be necessary to die at all. [...]
>We are heading for one of the great extinction events in the history
>of this planet, probably the greatest extinction event in the last 200
>million years.
This elicits the alternative theory that to religious fanatics (and who knows who else), extropians may appear just another non-threatening group of religious fanatics.
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