I watched an intro to COPL meeting again and whereas it was interesting idea years ago, even to me, it NOW strikes me as quite creepy and unneccessary on several counts and more. Here are a few.
1. One life to live: This isn't true for reincarnationsists like me, who wish to extend current biological lifespan and slow aging, squaring the curve as Durk and Sandy called it. There is no need for limiting COPL to atheists.
2. Quote from Arthur C. Clarke not needed especially since Clarke foresees non-humans taking over. Most humans want to remain human but in a regenerateive type body, more consistent with superhero comic books and ancient Greek small-g gods. I would not quote Clarke but rather Clark Kent, the alter-ego of Superman.
3. The allusions to becoming gods doesn't specify small-g gods and seems to dismiss a Creator of All, a First Cause type of big-G God.
I have not really spent time examining the creed in much depth and could be wrong about my first 3 points here but this is the direction I'm going today. There are plenty of higher-power-believers who ALSO want to slow aging and extend life so the creed should be paused for now until it becomes more accomodating to those who wish to remain human but modified, not tranhuman'd, and to those who maintain their outlook to include higher frequencies and dimensions of existence as ancient Greek dualists.
Life extension is of great interest to soul-believing dualists as well as materialist monists. In fact there are more of the former than the latter.
The creepiest part of the intro occurs when the audience is invited to say the creed along with the M.c. I'm sure many guests who get invited along are pretty much horrified when encountering this at the introduction and wonder what they've walked into.
COPL's FATAL CONTRADICTORY INTERNAL LOGIC
COPL creed referes to Creator of our universe yet says we have one life to life. In any Creator oriented universe, there are always more lives, afterlives or reincarnations even if there is a waiting period before resurrection or an eternal hell. A good point of reference to start with on this point would be Pascal's Wager. Only in a non-Creator world would there be "one life to live".
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