November 2012 – Page 2 – Alonewithothers's Blog

November 12, 2012

Who Reigns?

Sometimes we picture [God] lounging, perhaps dozing, in some celestial deck-chair, while the hungry millions starve to death … . It is this terrible caricature of God which the cross smashes to smithereens. […] We have to learn to climb the hill called Calvary, and from that vantage-ground survey all life’s tragedies. The cross does

Visul lui Kant și coșmarul lui Hobbes

Am citit recent un portret al Statelor Unite în paralel cu cel al Europei, portret făcut de Robert Kagan în Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Vintage, 2004). Europa crede într-o lume kantiană a raționalului, a legilor stabilite prin negociere, dialog. Totodată Europa este o lume a unui postmodernism

The Transhumanist God

Instead of praying for transcendence let’s engineer transcendence. Let’s engineer ourselves into blissful utopian existence. “We are as gods and might as well get good at it”. (YouTube description) “Unfortunately, the singularity may not be what you’re hoping for. By default the singularity (intelligence explosion) will go very badly for humans… so by default superhuman