[MD] Transhumanism

[Mary]

Hi Matt,

> 
> Mary, you've confused characters in my domestic comedy:
> my girlfriend's best friend is the evangelical who lost her
> brother.  I'm not close enough to her to know how this
> fairly recent event affected her faith.  But we went to
> church with her last time I was there.  First time in a long
> time for me.  My girlfriend, on the other hand, the "militant
> atheist": I know her well enough to have a pretty good
> idea that she has no particular reason to be as resentful
> as she seems.  Which I've told her.  And she smiles and
> shrugs.  (Man, you must have thought I was an idiot if I
> didn't know why someone who'd lost a sibling would resent
> God/religion.)
> 
[Mary Replies] 

LOL.  ...and you must have thought me an idiot to confuse who's who in the
story.  Blue slug-bug no tag backs!  

> Matt
> 
> p.s.  And true about "thought-out," though I like to use
> "articulate" as a watchword that includes all those kinds of
> things.  On my view, because reasoning has so much to do
> with linguistic felicity, I like switching from "reason" to
> "articulation" because it gives a greater sense of a
> concrete, external activity.
> 
[Mary Replies] 
Does Sarah Palin have Quality?

Best,
Mary

> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > Your girlfriend is resentful because God didn't save her brother.  No
> wonder
> > she hates the religious.  They have nothing to offer.  If fact they
> > betrayed.
> >
> > Really liked your observation about the articulate vs. the
> inarticulate.
> > You know, though, the battle has nothing to do with articularity.  It
> is
> > really a battle between the thought-out and the not-thought-out.  I
> hope you
> > win.
> >
> > Mary
> >