Re: virus: The Ideohazard 1.1

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 18:03:00 MDT

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    Hear hear!

    Walter

    Keith Henson wrote:

    > I have come to appreciate religions in the same way that I appreciate
    > redwood trees. Both are highly evolved "living" systems, worthy of respect
    > on that aspect alone. My appreciation is partly because religions are
    > symbiotic to human minds. As such the combination of a human with a
    > religion is/was more likely to survive and reproduce than one
    > without. Religions of course *evolve* to the symbiotic state, typically
    > taking 300 years to move from dangerous cult to a more or less mutualistic
    > state.
    >
    > Unfortunately in my case knowing/appreciating the nature of religions
    > precludes me from religious memes from being part of my active set. I.e.,
    > I can't take any of them more seriously than the Easter Bunny. 

    --
Walter Watts
Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
"Reminding you to help control the human population. Have your sexual partner spayed
or neutered."
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