Yeah. Many religious people will be grossly disappointed in God if they find out that the Super Mind decides to chuck it in the fuck bucket. But that's their look out, JC. For me, I something think about religious traditions of a heavenly court, delegated by the big guy, not really to judge, but to evaluate ;-) It kind of is focused on what the Big Brain is pursuing? Helping with other flavors of creation, or building better, smarter minds then us. I mean who knows? We could ask you what you plan to do in the 22nd century when you get restored? I agree with you on the power trip which seems obvious, but they ain't the only ones. However they do love to pretend they got the keys to the kingdom.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2022 9:54 am Subject: Re: Scriptural refutation of the Transhumanist Movement On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 3:30 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, the afterlife-compensation belief may have some benefit for many Not if the afterlife includes hell, a place where an omniscient being will use all of His infinite power to inflict infinite pain on you for an infinite number of years and a place that can ONLY be avoided if you have lived a perfect life. I have a great deal of difficulty understanding why an infinitely intelligent being would want to do that. But I find it remarkably easy to understand why a human being, like a Christian priest or shaman of some other religious franchise that claims to have God's cell number and email address, would invent such an idea, he concocted eternal damnation because it increased the likelihood he will be able to convince other humans to do what he wants them to do. And priests, pastors, mullahs and all other sorts of conmen like power. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolisleh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1UZ6j0ad2KLmQfQKd1DA8%2ByyA0ROdmXh_ybGbPZaG9GQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/180542866.694906.1657760081762%40mail.yahoo.com.
