Urth-Earth links

David Stockhoff · 19 Oct 2011, 17:22 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:16 -0400
Subject: (urth) Urth-Earth links
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On 10/19/2011 1:12 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (19-10-2011 17:35):
>> On 10/19/2011 12:20 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> `On Wed, October 19, 2011 08:25, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>> On 10/19/2011 7:54 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>>>> The Eucharist is also the same sort of process as a diabolical
>>>>> Eucharist. Might not this be the appropriate analogy? There is
>>>>> certainly one analogical element, as in the autarchial process, the
>>>>> memory donor voluntarily offers himself as a sacrifice, which is not
>>>>> the case in the ?diabolical Eucharist? of Vodalus and his followers.
>>>> Again, I don't see any worthwhile distinction between fallen and
>>>> unfallen technology. Both processes are unspeakable perversions but it
>>>> is their users (and uses) that distinguish them.
>>> How is the analeptic use any worse than any other organ donation? Do 
>>> you
>>> hold with Christian Science or Jehova's Witnesses?
>> Since both those sects define murder and suicide and messing with 
>> corpses as
>> immoral, I guess I do!
>
> Interesting. Outside some parts of Christianity, I have seldom seen 
> suicide considered immoral. Could you expand?

Not really---I was actually just being snarky. I don't know of any 
examples outside The Big Three either. Even Islam disapproves of it.

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