RE: virus: Un-natural De-selection

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:30:31 -0500


I would suggest you read some of the latest scientific thought on
evolution. For easy, fun reads, I might suggest "Darwin's Dangerous Idea,"
"Figments of Reality," and my own VIRUS OF THE MIND for starters.

Remember, this is a Church -- you don't want to commit heresy, do you?

Richard

Richard,

I read some paper online which I thought was "Virus of the Mind" (though I
thought it was by someone other than yourself). Seems it was so prejudiced
and biased against religion that if it had any useful information, said
information was well hidden behind ignorance. Still, I have made a note to
read what has been suggested and as soon as I find it online (and free),
then I will read it. I am very against the rich making slaves of the
poor--taking all of the material comforts and making others (who are just as
capable...or more so) work for the "priveledge" to subsist. Because of
this, I am careful not to support people who are making a profit off of
others. (I "boycot"--which supposedly refers to a person by the name
Boycot, but which I think COULD mean: to take a "boy" sexual partner and
sleep on the "cot" when the wife is using sex in an attempt to manipulate
the male into subservience/slavery).

Brett

ps...I hope comments as to my "fleshing out", MY "personal philosophy"
aren't attempts to make me somehow look "immature" or "self-absorbed"...that
comments as to other's "generosity" in conversing along these lines aren't
attempts to make them seem "pandering" to something unworthy...and that
innuendo concerning "heresy" isn't some kind of threat or name-calling ploy
to make me seem part of the "out group" (threatened and/or threatening to
the safety or cohesion of the "in crowd"). Also, I don't remember saying
that I hadn't read the holy text (which I consider irrelevant to
*meaningful* dialogue "for starters"--though not implying you are a
"starter" or need the primer or watered down version of truth :).

BR

At 07:45 AM 8/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Friday, August 15, 1997 6:30 AM, Brett Lane Robertson
>[SMTP:unameit@tctc.com] wrote:
>my theory, "development", suggests that simpler
>> life forms are fundamental steps in attaining a more advanced state and
>are
>> as such "protected" by complexity as well; that is, advanced (more
>complex)
>> life forms must also select to keep the most simple processes in good
>> working order so that the more advanced processes can work most
>efficiently
>> (like adults protect children so that they can become adults--or like the
>> body performs its most basic functions "automatically"...breathing,
>> circulation...so that higher processes can operate.

>I can sense the delight you have as you flesh our your personal philosophy
>and model of the universe, and I think the memebers are sharing it with you
>in their generosity to converse with you about these matters.

>I would suggest you read some of the latest scientific thought on
>evolution. For easy, fun reads, I might suggest "Darwin's Dangerous Idea,"
>"Figments of Reality," and my own VIRUS OF THE MIND for starters.

>Remember, this is a Church -- you don't want to commit heresy, do you?

>Richard

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