That Old Time Religion
Transhumanism is a religion. It is based on the Idea of Progress which is the belief that there is an inevitable historical trend towards some grand Utopia. But the Idea of Progress is really just a secularized version of Christian Providence.
I am an atheist but not a militant one. Live and let live, I say. My problem with the religion of Transhumanism is that it claims to be a science. Also, I have some affection for those old time religions because they are beautiful, whereas Transhumanism is ugly.
For all you Transhumanists out there: if you have such a pressing need for some purpose in your life, why not consider Christianity or Judaism? They have so many things that the Religion of Transhumanism lacks: music, poetry, art, Saints and sinners, customs, traditions, etc.
But the most important things they have are girls. There aren't many female Transhumanists and I suspect that most Transhumanists are lonely men who really need a girlfriend. Just show up to a Church and you will find lots of nice girls to meet.
I am an atheist but not a militant one. Live and let live, I say. My problem with the religion of Transhumanism is that it claims to be a science. Also, I have some affection for those old time religions because they are beautiful, whereas Transhumanism is ugly.
For all you Transhumanists out there: if you have such a pressing need for some purpose in your life, why not consider Christianity or Judaism? They have so many things that the Religion of Transhumanism lacks: music, poetry, art, Saints and sinners, customs, traditions, etc.
But the most important things they have are girls. There aren't many female Transhumanists and I suspect that most Transhumanists are lonely men who really need a girlfriend. Just show up to a Church and you will find lots of nice girls to meet.
Very true. There are very few female Transhumanists. That is why at the last Transvision Conference's "Gala dinner dance", only two couples were dancing. OTOH, they looked good (Max and Natasha have years of practice, so they looked a lot more graceful than Brenda and I, but we all had fun).
And yes, there are many more good looking women in churches. It's where I met my lovely wife.
Of course, my wife believes that all this nanotech is nonsense. Except for the carbon nanotube baseball bats. And the drug delivery dendrimers. And the gold nanoshells for fighting cancer. And maybe DNA origami or bis-amino acid polypeptides. And maybe rotaxane cross-bar memories (at 900 molecules/bit). And all of Zetl's stuff, though she (and you, undoubtedly) doesn't see how it would become useful.
At the risk of overgeneralizing, most women are practical and just don't believe in technology, much less visionary ones with mind-boggling potential. But as she's admitted, I've been correct once or twice before.
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Shame on you! You should never encourage the fueling of the corrupting deceitful and all dividing religions.
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