Wednesday, September 19. 2012
The world's first transhumanist politician
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Does being on the UK's Colonial Commission on Higher Education and first Director of UNESCO make one a politician? Because if so, Julian Huxley.
As for Vatinno, I would be willing to stake MONEY that the Buddhists he's talked to are Westerners who claim to be Buddhist. Real Buddhism generally considers any station higher than humanity (e.g., being reincarnated as a god) to be a bad incarnation (I believe Shingon Buddhism calls its list of them "The 10 Calamitous Rebirths"), since the widened scope for achieving one's will blinds one to the suffering of the cycle of rebirth.
Similarly, the Hindu concept closest to Transhumanism is "the Heart of an Asura" (the concept's also found in Buddhism). An Asura (roughly a Greek Titan) is a god with the same desires as a human—only, being a god, much less stands in the way of getting those desires, so the Asura has even less self-control than a human. But there are Hindus who've been very Westernized, and not in a good way.
As for Vatinno, I would be willing to stake MONEY that the Buddhists he's talked to are Westerners who claim to be Buddhist. Real Buddhism generally considers any station higher than humanity (e.g., being reincarnated as a god) to be a bad incarnation (I believe Shingon Buddhism calls its list of them "The 10 Calamitous Rebirths"), since the widened scope for achieving one's will blinds one to the suffering of the cycle of rebirth.
Similarly, the Hindu concept closest to Transhumanism is "the Heart of an Asura" (the concept's also found in Buddhism). An Asura (roughly a Greek Titan) is a god with the same desires as a human—only, being a god, much less stands in the way of getting those desires, so the Asura has even less self-control than a human. But there are Hindus who've been very Westernized, and not in a good way.
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