Mr. Klavan, I noticed you were writing about me, but I still have my hair. Well, most of it.
Transhumanism will take Christ out of all of those who partake. Look at us now. We’ve practically eliminated God from the West, as it is. It is as if we are falling ever faster and faster to a bottom, where the impact will be most undesirable. And what we have already is.
Computers do so much for us now that; instead of aiding us, they are replacing us. In his last Good Friday homily (I believe), Bishop Sheen talked about suffering. And I think that hits on a key point with what is wrong in the West: we don’t suffer enough. The last two generations have not lived under an existential threat. Oh, to be sure, they THINK global warming is a threat, but they have no inkling of life where you could be vaporized with a 24 minute launch-detonation window. A warming planet is a suffering out in the future, to them, not an imminent threat. We have more machines to do manual work, computers to make every computation, and Common Core math to dumb down the students, and make parents suffer, if only a little.
And transhumanism is just the next process to eliminate suffering, a process to take up the Cross for us, so we are not burdened. Suffering breeds character. It brings us closer to Christ and his suffering, and two generations have shown the West that neither Christ nor character are any of their concern.
No wonder they’ll be saying as-salamu alaykum soon.
Loved the T.S. Eliot line -- how do I know when I'm listening to that small inner voice within that I haven't disguised my own selfish desires with the cloak of respectability conferred by the Holy Spirit. Something to think about!
I think this truth - the pull to be like Christ, to move towards agape love, causes a discomfort in my mind everytime I read some person, usually a woman, say " I am living my truth! I am miserable because I am doing what ever every one else wants me to! I need to be free!" That is not why. Being self centered does not make you happy. Serving with love, which does not mean being a doormat, is the path to joy
Mr. Klavan, I noticed you were writing about me, but I still have my hair. Well, most of it.
Transhumanism will take Christ out of all of those who partake. Look at us now. We’ve practically eliminated God from the West, as it is. It is as if we are falling ever faster and faster to a bottom, where the impact will be most undesirable. And what we have already is.
Computers do so much for us now that; instead of aiding us, they are replacing us. In his last Good Friday homily (I believe), Bishop Sheen talked about suffering. And I think that hits on a key point with what is wrong in the West: we don’t suffer enough. The last two generations have not lived under an existential threat. Oh, to be sure, they THINK global warming is a threat, but they have no inkling of life where you could be vaporized with a 24 minute launch-detonation window. A warming planet is a suffering out in the future, to them, not an imminent threat. We have more machines to do manual work, computers to make every computation, and Common Core math to dumb down the students, and make parents suffer, if only a little.
And transhumanism is just the next process to eliminate suffering, a process to take up the Cross for us, so we are not burdened. Suffering breeds character. It brings us closer to Christ and his suffering, and two generations have shown the West that neither Christ nor character are any of their concern.
No wonder they’ll be saying as-salamu alaykum soon.
Loved the T.S. Eliot line -- how do I know when I'm listening to that small inner voice within that I haven't disguised my own selfish desires with the cloak of respectability conferred by the Holy Spirit. Something to think about!
I read your book on how you became a Christian. This was a great book. Thank you for sharing!
I think this truth - the pull to be like Christ, to move towards agape love, causes a discomfort in my mind everytime I read some person, usually a woman, say " I am living my truth! I am miserable because I am doing what ever every one else wants me to! I need to be free!" That is not why. Being self centered does not make you happy. Serving with love, which does not mean being a doormat, is the path to joy
I highly recommend Andrew Klavan’s book The Great Good Thing on audible. Wonderful!