My perspective is that religious folk have not been prepping the party. Scientists have been trying to get some instruments together to make some music, but the religious people keep grabbing guitars, smashing them, and calling it music. Then, when the music finally starts up despite all the smashed instruments, religious folks say “oh hey, that’s what we were trying to do, you’re welcome everybody.”
As soon as something conveniently fits the religious narrative (appropriately tortured beyond its original construction), it gets incorporated. I find that frustrating, as it should instead shatter the narrative and reveal it for the useless pile of dogma that it is.
Most scientists are not extropian in any sense—so if they have been “prepping the party” it was not deliberate. Are you considering scientists and religious folk as disjoint sets?
My perspective is that religious folk have not been prepping the party. Scientists have been trying to get some instruments together to make some music, but the religious people keep grabbing guitars, smashing them, and calling it music. Then, when the music finally starts up despite all the smashed instruments, religious folks say “oh hey, that’s what we were trying to do, you’re welcome everybody.”
As soon as something conveniently fits the religious narrative (appropriately tortured beyond its original construction), it gets incorporated. I find that frustrating, as it should instead shatter the narrative and reveal it for the useless pile of dogma that it is.
Most scientists are not extropian in any sense—so if they have been “prepping the party” it was not deliberate. Are you considering scientists and religious folk as disjoint sets?