Hi,
Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com> writes:
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Love the idea of a Manifesto, but we will need some heavy weights to
do battle with those that aren't' real happy with our manifesto - I
nominate Joe Dees and everyone's favorite, The Hermit.
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hahahaha. Seriously, though, long before we need to defend it, we need to write it. I for one have only the faintest idea what it should contain, and no idea at all of how it should read. I guess the first major decision is 'length'. How long are we looking at? (the communist manifesto is about 15,000 words -- I don't think we need that many!)
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Bertrand Russell. Excellent. I'd be willing to be the "voting booth"
if we want to develop our saints... is there widespread desire out
there for more saints?
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Hmmm. Some kind of transhumanist goal?
I've thought about it a little more, and I guess the goal dictated by
Virus would be for us to further evolve along "meme-substrate"
We are still on the one Saint, our hero Charles Darwin, right? A few
times it has been brought up but then the list floods with nominees. I
for one, am a big Bertrand Russell fan, so he is my first choice. I
would vote for a fictional person if we could come up with a good one
that illustrates our principles well. Perhaps we should add 3 or 5 at
a whack, and have a little nominating and voting setup.
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Yea, me too. I think I would like to see our world end (humans that
is) by becoming the next species. By becoming more that what we are
now. But if we return to the water and swim with the dolphins
50,000,000 years from now, that is ok too.
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Excellent idea. I was thinking it would be a good idea to have an entire memetic workup on the UT meme. You know, talk about it's biological origins, it's memetic status, it's damage to humanity in the modern setting, etc.
ERiC