X-Message-Number: 23866 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:40:28 -0700 Subject: Re: Pagnato's why do they hate us From: Kennita Watson <> > Message #23847 > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:49:35 -0700 (PDT) > From: Scott Badger <> > Subject: Re: Pagnato's why do they hate us > > Kennita wrote: > <<Personally, I imagine that in the future, persons > whose behavior is not only antisocial but harmful will > be assigned to virtual realities where they can hang > out until they learn to "work and play well with > others".>> > > Hmmm. I think religious people think that's why we're > all here on Earth. > So religious people think we're in virtual reality now? And what do they think the people who get killed in shootouts with the cops learned? > Message #23849 > From: > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:05:56 EDT > Subject: Kennita's Theodicy > >> Personally, I imagine that in the future, persons whose >> behavior is not only antisocial but harmful will be assigned >> to virtual realities where they can hang out until they learn >> to "work and play well with others". > > Obviously this has already happened, Kennita, which is why we're all > here. > (Although the Overlord's definition of "play well with others" may not > be > satisfying to us...) > Another person who thinks we're in virtual reality? Or are you just kidding? I'm not. I think that we will figure out how to make virtual reality helmets, suits, cubicles, or whatever that will allow us to help mentally ill people (such as sadists, murderers, megalomaniacs, schizophrenics, etc.) get over their illnesses, and people who have lost significant memory due to suboptimal cryosuspensions (or even just well-suspended 21st-century people) adjust to the 22nd (or later) century. Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23866