X-Message-Number: 20821 From: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:29:56 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #20790 Religion in the family --part1_76.28717e15.2b5032e4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Swayze said on January 5: > Recently members of my extended family, a couple cousins, an uncle, my > stepfather > and my grandfather were having their usual theological discussion. I sat in > my > room at the end of the hall from them and fully able to hear it all simply > cringing at the narrow mindedness in my own family. I was trying to ignore > it all > when my uncle spouts off what his idea of heaven would be. Something about > tilling the soil with our bare hands, getting back to basics and of course > always > on bended knee in appreciation for gawd's mercy in allowing us to be dirt > farmers > for eternity instead of smoldering lumps of carbon in the lake of fire. Some message would have to be framed, this is one :-) This is a good illustration of the brain washing power of religions. But beyond that, it tell us too something about the incapacity of the educational system to give a basic science/technology view of the world. Most citizen today live in what is for them magic: They push some buttons to get a result but don't understand why it work, what is the technology, what is the science, the basic working of the world behind their actions. In the end, they get soupped up of all that and want a world they can understand, bare hand farming is all they can conceive. It is their limit. They have been taught all their live to obey *the autority*, so they want to submit to a god, the condensed factor of all power and authority. They are fully ripe for dictatorship political system. Someday, cryonics will enter their concious domain and in the name of god they'll do everything to destroy it, forbid it and give a decent rotting place to all victims of that evil practice. Sure, each cryonics victim will have this religious office so they can go peacefuly to the realm of god. Religion is that. Please no electricity, no computers, no jets or space program, no medicine, life must be sufering and god worship only. Above all, no tensor calculus :-) Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_76.28717e15.2b5032e4_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20821