On 10-Aug-06, at 8:33 AM, Martin Senftleben wrote:
Of course is meeting my maker
a reason to look forward to dying (for me), but the worth of a longer
process of dying lies elsewhere (as mentioned above).
OK. Those other reasons you mentioned are a lot more intelligent (and
intelligible)
than the idea of meeting your maker (which was the only reason I
could infer from
your earlier post).
My comment about changing the silk-list slogan wasn't specifically
about this topic,
but rather a reflection on the (IMO) generally much lower audibility
of rational voices
on the list over the past few years, as compared to some years before
[1] (though the
idea of meeting one's maker is clearly outside the bounds of the
intelligent, and not
worthy of the least bit of respect - or tolerance - from thinking
people[2]) .
#!
1. Excluding the brief period when a certain "Arsalan" character I
inadvertently
introduced to the list was swamping it with his posts, which
was truly an all-time
low. (cf. http://netropolis.org/silklist/msg05647.html, and for
a laugh, also
http://netropolis.org/silklist/msg05664.html)
2. Read "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason"
by Sam Harris
for a detailed explanation of the reason why.
