Flotsam and Jetsam (03-09-10)

I’ve been reexamining the 100 or so post drafts I’ve accumulated over the years. I once considered writing a piece arguing that the most important intellectual advance mankind has made in the past 5,000 years has been the discovery that there are no malevolent witches looking to cast curses on the innocent.

I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration so there’s no point making a full length post about it. Yet I can’t help but feel relieved to be a free from such a ubiquitous delusion that has inspired so much fear, hatred, and violence, over the millennia.

Flotsam and Jetsam (03-07-10)

I once planned to write a post called “How to Maintain Biblical Inerrancy in the Face of All Those Contradictions,” but I got distracted and forgot all I was going to say. Below is the content of the previously unposted draft.

Reestablish Context.

God wasn’t a societal reformer.

Prove it to me!

Only in the original manuscripts.

Covenental sleight of hand.

Might makes right.

Temporary refuge in liberalism.

God said it, I believe it, that settles it!

Mariana Musings (03-06-10)

Conservatism is people protecting the people that people need protecting from.

A Transhumanist’s “Imagine”

Imagine there’s no weakness
It’s easy if you try
No flaws to slow us
Our limit is the sky
Imagine former people
Enhanced cybernetically

Imagine there’s no cancer
It isn’t hard to do
No pathogens to slay us
And aging reversed too
Imagine all the people
Living eternally…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will take action

Imagine true abundance
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
We’re working on a plan
Imagine all the people
Filling every need…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will take action