Re: the Extropian War on Ignorance (was: the Extropian Religious War)

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 21:09:29 MDT


From: "John M Grigg" <starman125@lycos.com>
> Some people with their positive-minded religious faith can feel such deep
happiness and accomplish vastly more in life then they could without it. I am
not talking about the Joan of Arcs' or Moses' of the world, but common people
who still have inward experiences which validate their belief.
>

Speaking as one with no more than ordinary respect for the accomplishments of
Moses, et al. (because it may take a Moses to know one, so they say), how
shall we think that a Moses differs from a common human? Shall we deem a hand
that holds a lump of gold less common than a hand that holds a lump of clay?
Or is it rather the contents of each that makes a difference? To the extent
direct experience and empirical evidence displaces ritual, ceremony, and
tradition in forming human views of reality, it makes common humans more like
Moses. That is my experience.

Good-bye is such an ugly word, so I'll just say farewell,

--J. R.

Useless hypotheses, etc.:
 consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, CYC, and ELIZA

We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.



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