Re: (Anti-)Transhumanist Conference in San Fran, Sept 19-20, 2003

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 17:02:05 MDT

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    At 10:10 PM 7/9/03 +0200, Anders wrote:
    >On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:40:33PM -0400, Hughes, James wrote:
    > >
    > > We need some folks from the WTA to show up at this Christian
    > > bioconservative conference and politely distribute some WTA literature.
    > > Contact me if you think you can attend. - secretary@transhumanism.org
    >
    >Maybe an even better approach is to engage them in discussion, based on
    >some memes that are not too out there. Asking "but isn't prolonging and
    >enhanching life exactly what all the miracles of Christ was about? And
    >didn't he say that it was up to the faithful to do his work?" can have
    >very interesting effects in this kind of venue.

    Anders, I agree with you. Good twist on the topic. Another point is that
    what we need to get are a lot of transhumanist-friendly people there and
    not push any one organization to be there. Geez.

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