Michael wrote:
> I know a lot of mystically inclined people, and the overwhelming majority
are
> know-nothing zipperheads, and happy to stay that way. They find thinking
> rationally, logically, to be too tiring for their poor little minds. They
> prefer, as a famous wrestler has said, 'the crutch of religion.' Religion
and
> mysticism ARE the opiates of society, just as much as opiates are the
religion
> of society.
>
> While studying mystical things can be interesting, and good study for
someone
> interested in stretching their mind, actually beleiving any of that nonsense
is
> the realm of simpletons.
Spoken like a man who knows all without experiencing anything first hand.
It's good to know that rational inquiry can extend to the things that
Extropian dogma says are forbidden. ;-)
In other words, you are parroting the dogma fed to you without verifying it
for yourself, aren't you? I assume that you haven't actually put in the actual
*work* (and it is work) to learn to meditate, for example, in a more than
simplistic fashion and found out if it is nonsense or not. Correct me if I'm
wrong.
I know a hell of a lot more mystically inclined people than most of you, I
wager. While many are vapid (just as many people into transhumanism are vapid
escapists as well), plenty are not.
Al
--
Al Billings -- <memoria@memoria.com> -- http://www.memoria.com
"We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal
nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your
own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer."
-- Pico della Mirandola
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