"Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> The reason the Mormons can knock on doors and get converts--and
> we frankly can't--is because they understand the act of
> "conversion"--and we DON'T. A simple knowledge every religion
> has and that we seem to be wholy ignorant of. (And despite the
> crucial role it plays in the spreading of memes generally). They
> understand that people are more likely to adopt ideas that
> come from someone like them (homophily) and that adoption has as
> much, if not more, to do with a subjective evaluation of those
> who host the memes, as with the content of the memes themselves. [1]
You know, I hear you Tim, but in the back of my mind, I'm also hearing St.
Paul and his "I become all things to all men so that I might save..."
And besides, as Neitzsche said, "Truth demands to be declared even if it is
ugly and unethical"
> What he found was a nest of argumentative, highly self-rightous,
> borish ninnys who were more intent in proving him wrong than
> finding our where he was coming from or how he got there.
Argumentative certainly. Self-rightous, I can accept. Borish? Ninnys?
As to our interest in where he came from and how he got there, I seem to
remember us asking and recieiving an answer, which merely comfirmed what we
already knew -- his "convictions" began very early in life with
indoctrinination from his parents.
> If "theism is mental inbreeding", then our display was nothing
> short of a "philisophical circle jerk".
Finally a description of the CoV mailing list that REALLY capures the
essence! I love it! Can we post this on the web page?
I see it now -- "The CoV is a memetically designed, atheistic religion,
consisting primairly of philosophical circle jerk (join the mailing list!)
and a web page singing the praises of Lucifer!
Ha!
Tim, you make a point about the religious folk gaining numbers, and hense
power -- having just read "Atlas Shrugged" (Ayn Rand), I am curious as to
why you think mindless drones will ever be able to overcome the kind of
directed knowledge and action seeking that a freethinker is capable of.
Their's is the morality of death, and so long as we refuse to help them,
they cannot win.
ERiC