From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 22:55:04 MDT
Memesets are not automatically false simply because they are
memesets. In fact, the exigencies of interrelating with the environing
world, and the differential reproductive rates engendered (pun
intended) by more successful vs. less successful environmental
interrelations, facilitate the evolution of memesets more closely
adherent to the referent reality they purport to represent. This trend is
most obviously observed in the advance of scientific knowledge. A
memeset can actually achieve optimization with respect to its
represented reality; for instance - can anyone imagine an improvement
in the multiplication tables? However, there are many memesets that
have exploited and thus hijacked the use of the human drives of sex,
survival and community; religions, of all forms, have historically despite
their differeing yet universally manifest fallacies, done so unfortunately
all too well.
The purpose of Virus is to create a religion that adheres to fact; that is,
one that pushes the proper sex, survival and community buttons
withpout having to suffer the downside of embracing logical or
empirically evidentiary fallacies in order to do so. If such a religion can
be enginneered - one that possesses all of the assets and none of the
liabilities of the traditional religions - it will inevitably outperform its
alternatives and win the Darwinian struggle between belief forms. The
major task facing this Church is how to appeal to people without lying;
that is, how to frame our appeal so that we offer them sex, survival and
community without deception.
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