In a message dated 2/17/2001 10:06:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
dsill@highland.net writes:
<< Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
>
> Show the spiritual people how their dreams of heaven, immortality, an
> end to want and so on can become actual realities here and now. Clothe
> it in God (imho an ultra SI) answering all the prayers of the ages if
> that is what it takes to reach them and enroll them. >>
Maybe that is all religion was, a mysterious, evolutionary, meme that enables
humans/trans-biologicals to create the future, the ultimate and eternal mind.
Mystical bullshit, I would agree, yet perhaps that is the truth, in the
extremely,long-run. Suffering and death are bullshit, albeit non-mystical,
yet we are forced to accept those, until we change the the conditions of the
universe.
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