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Douglas
Deveau
N
May
23,
2014
at
3:14
am
I
just
have
one
thing
to
say,
keep
superstitions
away
from
my
transhumanism!
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Mark
Plus
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.
Of
course
this
idea
works
both
ways.
Christianity
might
have
reached
late
into
its
own
BC-
like
time,
and
some
folk
christians
express
their
anxiety
about
this
possibility
through
their
end
times
fantasies.
(Christians
have
apparently
started
to
disappear,
all
right;
just
not
in
the
way
christians
usually
portray
the
rapture.)

I
find
it
interesting
that
transhumanists
who
talk
a
good
game
about
"living
forever"
have
such
short
time
horizons.
I
feel
pretty
confident
in
saying
that
"living
forever"
cannot
possibly
mean
"living
to
2045,"
the
currently
popular
(nd
completely
nonsensical)
"immortality"
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
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
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.
Reply

walt onharry
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
these
and
other
contexts.
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
a
certain
viewpoint
is
an
efficient
economic
organization
that
provides
benefits
for
its
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
can
attribute
the
modern
 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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