THE ÆSTHETE: 'I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's'

THE ÆSTHETE: 'I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's'

a threat to the godspell?

Beloved, let us pray that it's true.

Highlight: "We are not faced with an endless array of doctrinal variants from which we can pick and choose." -- R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

Hey genius moron, HOW MANY HUNDREDS of SECTS claim a stake in christianity?

It's either something like 36,000, worldwide, according to this esteemed web authority.

Or over 1,000 Christian faith groups in North America, according to The Tolerant:

• Into three or four meta-groups (e.g. Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican),
• By "wing" (e.g. conservative, mainline, and liberal),
• By theological belief system (Calvinism, Arminianism, etc.)
• By religious family, (Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, etc.), and
• By denomination.

So, according to the obviously most credible sources that come up at the top of the web search pile, you get something like 1,000 to 36,000 "doctrinal variants from which we can pick and choose," give or take some reasonable margin for error. Oh, sorry, didn't mean to imply any possible error in the Rev. Moron's FACTS.

Getting Evolution Up to Speed

"New evidence suggests humans are evolving more rapidly -- and more recently -- than most people thought possible. But for some radical evolutionists, Homo sapiens isn't morphing quickly enough." Wired News

Human Enhancement Technologies Conference

May 26-28, 2006

Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California

Organized by: Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Transhumanism: the next stage in human evolution?

MP3 of a speech by Dr Nick Bostrom, IEET Chairman and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. The speech was given on March 22, 2006 in London to the Royal Society. The meeting was chaired by Robert Pepperell, University of Plymouth and at the University of Wales College, Newport, UK.

Lab Grows Bladders From Cells of Patients

"It is the first time a complex human organ like the bladder has been mostly replaced with tissue grown from a patient's own cells. Only simpler tissues — skin, bone, and cartilage — have been lab-grown and transplanted in the past."Yahoo! News

Tomorrow's People: The Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement

The subject of the recent Forum 2006 at Said Business School, complete with archived webcasts and active discussion board.