From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 00:37:17 MST
Ramez Naam wrote:
> From: spike66 [mailto:spike66@attbi.com]
>
>>Ja, but Amara, honestly I find connecting with humans
>>quite difficult enough without the additional complication
>>of nudity...
>
> You get used to it. Discomfort with nudity is a learned behavior, not
> an innate one. If you spend enough time around naked people, you
> unlearn your anxieties about nudity.
...
>
> In fact, extropians is an example of such a subculture.
>
Well, the anxiety is more with social interaction
than just nudity I suppose. Extropians is a good
example indeed. At extros 4 and 5, I found that most
of my usual difficulties grokking humans instantly
vanished. Here was a group with whom one could
freely discuss mathematics, cryonics, uploading, any kind
of raging technology, floating in compressed argon,
injecting sedatives into a carotid artery, atheism,
nanotechnology, the singularity, a bright future
for transhumankind, all the really good stuff, without
having to explain anything or get into any silly
elementary arguments.
I thank evolution for you people.
spike
ps, if I were to ever participate in a naturist setting,
it could only be at an *extropian* nudist resort.
pps, but still there's that predominantly-male nature
with extropians, so never mind. And thank evolution
for the few female extropians that continue to bear
with us.
{8^D
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