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May23,

2014

at

3:14

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I

just

have

one

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to

say,

keep


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superstitions

away

from

my

transhumanism!

Reply

MarkPlus

N

May

22,

2014

at

4:44

pm

On

the

other

hand,

Christianity

teaches

that

religions

have

expiration

dates.

Christians

apparently

invented

this

idea

when

they

divided

a

commonly

used

calender

in

the

West

into

the

BC

and

AD

eras.


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Of

course

this

idea

works

both

ways.

Christianity

might

have

reached

late

into

its

own

BC-like

time,

and

some

folk

christians

express

their

anxietyabout

this

possibility

through

their

end

times

fantasies.

(Christianshave

apparently

started

to

disappear,

all

right;

just

notin

the

way


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christians

usually

portray

the

rapture.)

I

find

it

interesting

that

transhumanists

who

talk

a

good

gameabout

"living

forever"

have

such

short

time

horizons.

Ifeel

pretty

confident

in

saying

that

"living

forever"

cannotpossibly

mean

"living

to

2045,"

the

currently

popular

(ndcompletely

nonsensical)

"immortality"


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deadline.

You

need

to

start

to

think

about

deeper

time

than

that.

Start

with

300

years

instead

of

30.

For

some

perspective,

read

about

the

world

300

years

ago,

the

time

of

Isaac

Newton's

old

age,

Benjamin

Franklin's

childhood,

Voltaire's

early

manhood

and

Johann

Sebastian

Bach's

hitting


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his

stride

as

a

prolific

composer.

Or

consider

how

historians

a

thousand

years

from

now

will

consider

America's

two

recent

incursions

into

the

Persian

Gulf

as

extensions

of

the

crusades.

Or

how

historians

10,000

years

from

now

will

have

to

reconstruct

the

beliefs

of

the

long-

extinct


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christian

religion

from

scarce

fragmentary

evidence,

the

way

scholars

a

century

ago

reconstructed

Mesopotamian

beliefs

from

broken

cuneiform

tablets.

Wrap

your

minds

around

these

ideas,

and

then

you'll

start

to

appreciate

what

"living

forever"

means

and

the

transitory

nature

of

current

background

structures

like

the

christian

religion.


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Reply

waltonharry

N

May

22,

2014

at

4:08

pm

Transhumanism

has

grown

out

of

a

culture

shaped

by

Christianity.

Also,

the

yearnings

of

Christians

and

transhumanists,

if

not

quite

universally

shared

by

all

people,

are

broadly

held

and

find

their

expressions

in

theseand

other

contexts.


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Reply

Tim

N

May

22,

2014

at

3:51

pm

Not

sure

I

share

the

author's

perspective

completely,

but

Transhumanists

should

embrace

Christianity

or

at

least

respect

it

because

of

its

accomplishments.

Christianity

from

acertain

viewpoint

is

an

efficient

economic

organization

that

providesbenefits

for

its


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members

and

rules

that

help

it

expand

and

progress,

rules

that

have

evolved

and

improved

over

two

thousand

years.

It

is

and

evolutionary

product

by

definition,

since

it

without

the

ability

to

sustain

and

grow,

it

would

have

died

out!.

Further,

one

canattribute

the

modern


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world

with

all

its

technologies

and

philosophies

largely

to

the

Judeo

Christian

tradition.

From

my

perspective,

transhumanism

is

merely

a

continuation

of

this

evolutionary

process.

My

two

cents...

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