You have significantly contributed to my education.
While my questions, implicit and explicit, were in no sense "rhetorical" the post was deliberately composed as a "Socratic" inquiry, which does include a bit of irony. But your responses, defending as they do the work and gestalten of Extropians in such a responsible manner, are of the greatest value to me. They have been archived in my "Extropian" Directory. Thank you, as well as the others, who are serving as my mentors.
> yep, we be impatient here.
> > any practical way of implementing its program.
> practice what we can as individuals to move things forward.
> > primary intention is to produce a qualitatively different "mode" or "type"
> > of intelligent existence.
> tree huggers because you expect it to feel really good when you stop it.
> we will get when the pain goes away that we are all aspiring towards.