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T***shumanism is the new one-world religion
Sep 20, 2022 15:57:59   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
As I posted last week, Joe Biden’s September 12 executive order forming a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative pivots the entire federal government to support, fund, advance, and embed t***shumanism into the fabric of American culture, economy and overall ethos.

“T***shumanism has evolved from an idea in sci-fi novels into a secular religion for many,” reports Wesley Smith in his new article, T***shumanism: A Religion for Post-Modern Times.

I’ll make a point concerning Smith’s article that seems obvious but few people will make the connection and you won’t hear anything about this in the corporate media: If t***shumanism is a religion, then Biden has just instituted a state religion, which is in direct violation of the First Amendment.

This new religion is known as “t***shumanism,” and it is all the rage among the Silicon Valley nouveau riche, university philosophers, and among bioethicists and futurists seeking the comforts and benefits of faith without the concomitant responsibilities of following dogma, asking for forgiveness, or atoning for sin – a foreign concept to t***shumanists. Truly, t***shumanism is a religion for our postmodern times.

T***shumanism makes two core promises. First, humans will soon acquire heightened capacities, not through deep prayer, meditation, or personal discipline, but merely by taking a pill, engineering our DNA, or otherwise harnessing medical science and technology to transcend normal physical limitations. More compellingly, t***shumanism promises that adherents will soon experience, if not eternal life, then at least indefinite existence – in this world, not the next – through the wonders of applied science.

This is where t***shumanism becomes truly eschatological. T***shumanist prophets anticipate a coming neo-salvific event known as the “Singularity” – a point in human history when the crescendo of scientific advances become unstoppable, enabling t***shumanists to recreate themselves in their own image. Want to have the eyesight of a hawk? Edit in a few genes. Want to raise your IQ? Try a brain implant. Want to look like a walrus? Well, why not? Different strokes for different folks, don’t you know?

Most importantly, in the post-Singularity world, death itself will be defeated. Perhaps, we will repeatedly renew our bodies through cloned organ replacements or have our heads cryogenically frozen to allow eventual surgical attachment to a different body. However, t***shumanists’ greatest hope is to eternally save their minds (again, as opposed to souls) via personal uploading into computer programs. Yes, t***shumanists expect to ultimately live without end in cyberspace, crafting their own virtual realities, or perhaps, merging their consciousnesses with others to experience multi-beinghood.

T***shumanists used to repudiate any suggestion that their movement is a form of, or substitute for, religion. But in recent years, that denial has worn increasingly thin. For example, Yuval Harari, a historian and t***shumanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told The Telegraph, “I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs, part organic, part non-organic.”

According to Harari, the human inventions of religion and money enabled us to subdue the earth. But with traditional religion waning in the West – and who can deny it? – he believes we need new “fictions” to bind us together. That’s where t***shumanism comes in:

Religion is the most important invention of humans. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods, they were controllable. With religion, it’s easy to understand. You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee Heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will.

But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful, and they no longer need the crutches of the gods. Now we are saying, “We do not need God, just technology.”


Ha! The old stereotype of the bearded Christian fanatic in robe and sandals carrying a sign stating, “The end is nigh!” has been replaced by t***shumanism proselytizers like author Ray Kurzweil (of Google fame) whose bestselling t***shumanist manifesto is titled, The Singularity is Near.

I can’t end this essay without highlighting an absolutely crucial distinction that must be drawn between t***shumanism and orthodox faiths, particularly Christianity. Christianity’s highest ideal is love. St. John the Evangelist wrote, “God is love.” Christ commanded Christians to “love one another as I have loved you.” Hence, believers understand that Christian living requires clothing the poor, visiting the sick and imprisoned, etc. Because, as Jesus taught in the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, when we do these things to “the least of these, you have done it unto Me.”

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence, which is why increasing human brain capacity is the movement’s second-most desired enhancement after defeating death. Thus, t***shumanist entrepreneur Bryan Johnson was reported by the New Scientist as investing $100 million to develop an implant to increase intelligence. “I arrived at intelligence,” the story quoted Johnson as saying, because “I think it’s the most precious and powerful resource in existence.”

In all the t***shumanist literature I have read, I have seen little interest in increasing the human capacity to love, beyond the most carnal understanding of that term. Perhaps that is because even crass materialists understand that love transcends firing neurons, bringing us as close as we are capable to expressing the divine. Indeed, it is no coincidence that an ancient theist gave us our most profound description of love:

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the t***h. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

You won’t find anything as deep, meaningful, and yes, intelligent as St. Paul’s love discourse in any t***shumanist manifesto. Indeed, even if we ultimately reengineer ourselves into post-humanity, until and unless we exponentially expand our capacity to love – which is a spiritual discipline, not a mechanistic endeavor – we will never become the creatures we long to be (or were created to be).

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Sep 20, 2022 16:14:04   #
Bevvy
 
Because we have inherited a sin nature from Adam, we commit individual, personal sins, everything from seemingly innocent unt***hs to murder. Those who have not placed their faith in Jesus Christ must pay the penalty for these personal sins, as well as inherited and imputed sin. However, believers have been freed from the eternal penalty of sin—hell and spiritual death—but now we also have the power to resist sinning. Now we can choose whether or not to commit personal sins because we have the power to resist sin through the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, sanctifying and convicting us of our sins when we do commit them (Romans 8:9-11). Once we confess our personal sins to God and ask forgiveness for them, we are restored to perfect fellowship and communion with Him. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

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Sep 20, 2022 16:18:57   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
Bevvy wrote:
Because we have inherited a sin nature from Adam, we commit individual, personal sins, everything from seemingly innocent unt***hs to murder. Those who have not placed their faith in Jesus Christ must pay the penalty for these personal sins, as well as inherited and imputed sin. However, believers have been freed from the eternal penalty of sin—hell and spiritual death—but now we also have the power to resist sinning. Now we can choose whether or not to commit personal sins because we have the power to resist sin through the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, sanctifying and convicting us of our sins when we do commit them (Romans 8:9-11). Once we confess our personal sins to God and ask forgiveness for them, we are restored to perfect fellowship and communion with Him. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Because we have inherited a sin nature from Adam, ... (show quote)

Preach it!

But so many times I feel like we're preaching to the wall.

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Sep 20, 2022 16:26:04   #
Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich
 
Parky60 wrote:
As I posted last week, Joe Biden’s September 12 executive order forming a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative pivots the entire federal government to support, fund, advance, and embed t***shumanism into the fabric of American culture, economy and overall ethos.

“T***shumanism has evolved from an idea in sci-fi novels into a secular religion for many,” reports Wesley Smith in his new article, T***shumanism: A Religion for Post-Modern Times.

I’ll make a point concerning Smith’s article that seems obvious but few people will make the connection and you won’t hear anything about this in the corporate media: If t***shumanism is a religion, then Biden has just instituted a state religion, which is in direct violation of the First Amendment.

This new religion is known as “t***shumanism,” and it is all the rage among the Silicon Valley nouveau riche, university philosophers, and among bioethicists and futurists seeking the comforts and benefits of faith without the concomitant responsibilities of following dogma, asking for forgiveness, or atoning for sin – a foreign concept to t***shumanists. Truly, t***shumanism is a religion for our postmodern times.

T***shumanism makes two core promises. First, humans will soon acquire heightened capacities, not through deep prayer, meditation, or personal discipline, but merely by taking a pill, engineering our DNA, or otherwise harnessing medical science and technology to transcend normal physical limitations. More compellingly, t***shumanism promises that adherents will soon experience, if not eternal life, then at least indefinite existence – in this world, not the next – through the wonders of applied science.

This is where t***shumanism becomes truly eschatological. T***shumanist prophets anticipate a coming neo-salvific event known as the “Singularity” – a point in human history when the crescendo of scientific advances become unstoppable, enabling t***shumanists to recreate themselves in their own image. Want to have the eyesight of a hawk? Edit in a few genes. Want to raise your IQ? Try a brain implant. Want to look like a walrus? Well, why not? Different strokes for different folks, don’t you know?

Most importantly, in the post-Singularity world, death itself will be defeated. Perhaps, we will repeatedly renew our bodies through cloned organ replacements or have our heads cryogenically frozen to allow eventual surgical attachment to a different body. However, t***shumanists’ greatest hope is to eternally save their minds (again, as opposed to souls) via personal uploading into computer programs. Yes, t***shumanists expect to ultimately live without end in cyberspace, crafting their own virtual realities, or perhaps, merging their consciousnesses with others to experience multi-beinghood.

T***shumanists used to repudiate any suggestion that their movement is a form of, or substitute for, religion. But in recent years, that denial has worn increasingly thin. For example, Yuval Harari, a historian and t***shumanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told The Telegraph, “I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs, part organic, part non-organic.”

According to Harari, the human inventions of religion and money enabled us to subdue the earth. But with traditional religion waning in the West – and who can deny it? – he believes we need new “fictions” to bind us together. That’s where t***shumanism comes in:

Religion is the most important invention of humans. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods, they were controllable. With religion, it’s easy to understand. You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee Heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will.

But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful, and they no longer need the crutches of the gods. Now we are saying, “We do not need God, just technology.”


Ha! The old stereotype of the bearded Christian fanatic in robe and sandals carrying a sign stating, “The end is nigh!” has been replaced by t***shumanism proselytizers like author Ray Kurzweil (of Google fame) whose bestselling t***shumanist manifesto is titled, The Singularity is Near.

I can’t end this essay without highlighting an absolutely crucial distinction that must be drawn between t***shumanism and orthodox faiths, particularly Christianity. Christianity’s highest ideal is love. St. John the Evangelist wrote, “God is love.” Christ commanded Christians to “love one another as I have loved you.” Hence, believers understand that Christian living requires clothing the poor, visiting the sick and imprisoned, etc. Because, as Jesus taught in the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, when we do these things to “the least of these, you have done it unto Me.”

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence, which is why increasing human brain capacity is the movement’s second-most desired enhancement after defeating death. Thus, t***shumanist entrepreneur Bryan Johnson was reported by the New Scientist as investing $100 million to develop an implant to increase intelligence. “I arrived at intelligence,” the story quoted Johnson as saying, because “I think it’s the most precious and powerful resource in existence.”

In all the t***shumanist literature I have read, I have seen little interest in increasing the human capacity to love, beyond the most carnal understanding of that term. Perhaps that is because even crass materialists understand that love transcends firing neurons, bringing us as close as we are capable to expressing the divine. Indeed, it is no coincidence that an ancient theist gave us our most profound description of love:

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the t***h. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

You won’t find anything as deep, meaningful, and yes, intelligent as St. Paul’s love discourse in any t***shumanist manifesto. Indeed, even if we ultimately reengineer ourselves into post-humanity, until and unless we exponentially expand our capacity to love – which is a spiritual discipline, not a mechanistic endeavor – we will never become the creatures we long to be (or were created to be).
As I posted last week, Joe Biden’s September 12 ex... (show quote)


Ask Biden about our Constitution....[ He'll say: 'What Constitution"? ? ? ? }

Ask him about the "RULE OF LAW"...[ He'll say: The LAW, is what "I" say it is } , ,

Ask him what he had to eat for breakfast....he'll say: How could I remember that?...that was 4 hours ago!

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Sep 20, 2022 16:28:48   #
Bevvy
 
Parky60 wrote:
Preach it!

But so many times I feel like we're preaching to the wall.


Yes , but Jesus said "Go into all the World and preach the gospel "

Keep looking up

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Sep 20, 2022 16:30:55   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
Bevvy wrote:
Yes , but Jesus said "Go into all the World and preach the gospel "

Keep looking up

That's why I'm still here and other places. Reminds me of my days in the insurance gig and loosely the parable of the 99 sheep.

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Sep 21, 2022 13:50:30   #
MidnightRider
 
Parky60 wrote:
As I posted last week, Joe Biden’s September 12 executive order forming a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative pivots the entire federal government to support, fund, advance, and embed t***shumanism into the fabric of American culture, economy and overall ethos.

“T***shumanism has evolved from an idea in sci-fi novels into a secular religion for many,” reports Wesley Smith in his new article, T***shumanism: A Religion for Post-Modern Times.

I’ll make a point concerning Smith’s article that seems obvious but few people will make the connection and you won’t hear anything about this in the corporate media: If t***shumanism is a religion, then Biden has just instituted a state religion, which is in direct violation of the First Amendment.

This new religion is known as “t***shumanism,” and it is all the rage among the Silicon Valley nouveau riche, university philosophers, and among bioethicists and futurists seeking the comforts and benefits of faith without the concomitant responsibilities of following dogma, asking for forgiveness, or atoning for sin – a foreign concept to t***shumanists. Truly, t***shumanism is a religion for our postmodern times.

T***shumanism makes two core promises. First, humans will soon acquire heightened capacities, not through deep prayer, meditation, or personal discipline, but merely by taking a pill, engineering our DNA, or otherwise harnessing medical science and technology to transcend normal physical limitations. More compellingly, t***shumanism promises that adherents will soon experience, if not eternal life, then at least indefinite existence – in this world, not the next – through the wonders of applied science.

This is where t***shumanism becomes truly eschatological. T***shumanist prophets anticipate a coming neo-salvific event known as the “Singularity” – a point in human history when the crescendo of scientific advances become unstoppable, enabling t***shumanists to recreate themselves in their own image. Want to have the eyesight of a hawk? Edit in a few genes. Want to raise your IQ? Try a brain implant. Want to look like a walrus? Well, why not? Different strokes for different folks, don’t you know?

Most importantly, in the post-Singularity world, death itself will be defeated. Perhaps, we will repeatedly renew our bodies through cloned organ replacements or have our heads cryogenically frozen to allow eventual surgical attachment to a different body. However, t***shumanists’ greatest hope is to eternally save their minds (again, as opposed to souls) via personal uploading into computer programs. Yes, t***shumanists expect to ultimately live without end in cyberspace, crafting their own virtual realities, or perhaps, merging their consciousnesses with others to experience multi-beinghood.

T***shumanists used to repudiate any suggestion that their movement is a form of, or substitute for, religion. But in recent years, that denial has worn increasingly thin. For example, Yuval Harari, a historian and t***shumanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told The Telegraph, “I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs, part organic, part non-organic.”

According to Harari, the human inventions of religion and money enabled us to subdue the earth. But with traditional religion waning in the West – and who can deny it? – he believes we need new “fictions” to bind us together. That’s where t***shumanism comes in:

Religion is the most important invention of humans. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods, they were controllable. With religion, it’s easy to understand. You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee Heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will.

But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful, and they no longer need the crutches of the gods. Now we are saying, “We do not need God, just technology.”


Ha! The old stereotype of the bearded Christian fanatic in robe and sandals carrying a sign stating, “The end is nigh!” has been replaced by t***shumanism proselytizers like author Ray Kurzweil (of Google fame) whose bestselling t***shumanist manifesto is titled, The Singularity is Near.

I can’t end this essay without highlighting an absolutely crucial distinction that must be drawn between t***shumanism and orthodox faiths, particularly Christianity. Christianity’s highest ideal is love. St. John the Evangelist wrote, “God is love.” Christ commanded Christians to “love one another as I have loved you.” Hence, believers understand that Christian living requires clothing the poor, visiting the sick and imprisoned, etc. Because, as Jesus taught in the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, when we do these things to “the least of these, you have done it unto Me.”

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence

In contrast, t***shumanism’s highest virtue is intelligence, which is why increasing human brain capacity is the movement’s second-most desired enhancement after defeating death. Thus, t***shumanist entrepreneur Bryan Johnson was reported by the New Scientist as investing $100 million to develop an implant to increase intelligence. “I arrived at intelligence,” the story quoted Johnson as saying, because “I think it’s the most precious and powerful resource in existence.”

In all the t***shumanist literature I have read, I have seen little interest in increasing the human capacity to love, beyond the most carnal understanding of that term. Perhaps that is because even crass materialists understand that love transcends firing neurons, bringing us as close as we are capable to expressing the divine. Indeed, it is no coincidence that an ancient theist gave us our most profound description of love:

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the t***h. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

You won’t find anything as deep, meaningful, and yes, intelligent as St. Paul’s love discourse in any t***shumanist manifesto. Indeed, even if we ultimately reengineer ourselves into post-humanity, until and unless we exponentially expand our capacity to love – which is a spiritual discipline, not a mechanistic endeavor – we will never become the creatures we long to be (or were created to be).
As I posted last week, Joe Biden’s September 12 ex... (show quote)


Yeah, yeah. T***shumanism is just another way of saying t******s are cool. Sorry they aren't. In their own homes yeah, no problem. Special rights. Big problems with consequences. I just paid for my gay brother-in-law's down payment on a home, so I wouldn't say I'm not inclusive.

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