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CHARLESTON (AP) — More than 10,000 flu cases have been confirmed in West Virginia as of mid-December, the highest total for the period in at least five years, state figures show.
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As of Dec. 18, there were 10,676 confirmed cases, according to Department of Health and Human Resources data. In all of December, there were 6,658 cases in 2011, 6,245 cases in 2010, 8,961 in 2009, 6.271 in 2008 and 7,217 in 2007.
"Every week there's been significant jumps in the number of confirmed positives. We've seen steady increases in confirmed cases from across the county and across the state for five consecutive weeks," Brandon Merritt, regional epidemiologist, with the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, told the Charleston Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/U8T0RG ).
Central West Virginia had the highest number of confirmed cases, 2,945, while north-central West Virginia had the lowest number, 943. There were 1,659 cases in southern West Virginia, 1,553 in the Mid-Ohio Valley, 1,520 in eastern West Virginia, 1,177 in western West Virginia and 1,155 in northern West Virginia. The state's regional breakdown also includes Kanawha County, which had 619 cases.
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Flu seasons usually peak at the end of January or in early February but this year's season might peak early, he said.
"It's hard to say, we're still trending upwards. It's hard to say when we're going to trend back down," he said.
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I really feel for the world right now, and especially young people, but all people, really, because of the psychological warfare that's constantly directed at all of us. People are so very, very vulnerable to peer pressure. They want to be liked; they don't want their societies to diss them; especially they don't want to be targeted by the media for total ruination of their lives. And in order for the psychological warfare to proceed, the cannibals that run our society need sacrificial victims. In this case, it's Funnyjunk and Charles Carreon's family. It's not the first time we've been targeted as sacrificial victims. We were targeted by the entire Buddhist community when I told them to go fuck themselves, for being nihilists, elitists, and authoritarians. Seeing what happens to people who buck the group mind-think, makes people fearful of what could happen to them if they didn't do what they were told. In this way, everyone is made to support the status quo, i.e., the Conservatives.
So I want to tell everyone who is fearful of stepping outside the group mind-think, afraid of being an individual, and thinking for themselves, that it is better to do the right thing than the group thing. What do you need your peers' approval for? So you can get stuck in a group prison with everyone else? So you can despise yourself for being weak and vulnerable? And be prevented from doing your part to keep the world from going to hell? And not step in to lend a hand when someone is being abused?
Better to tell your friends to go to hell, and have some dignity and self-worth, and be free to act as you want, according to your conscience. I get a lot of comfort from thinking about what Ralph Nader has been through over the years. The media tried to rip him a new asshole many a time. They wanted him to crawl into a hole and die. Fascist fuckers! Fuck them!
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Pretty soon they'll be denying us discovery for national security reasons.
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It appears that the entire national security state is being mobilized for Matt Inman.
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Family members work for him, dutifully shipping his wares to dolphin haters across the globe.
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Here's some sane reporting that does not make Matt Inman look good. No ordinary person is going to like his bullshit.
Thank you, Matthias Gafni, of the Contra Costa Times, for reporting this story fairly.
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The Oatmeal website, cancer and wildlife charities sued following web feud involving bear bestiality fundraiser
By Matthias Gafni Contra Costa Timescontracostatimes.com
Posted: 06/22/2012 05:12:10 PM PDT
June 23, 2012 1:3 AM GMTUpdated: 06/22/2012 06:03:08 PM PDT
Charles Carreon (Courtesy of Charles Carreon)
What do you get when you mix a lawyer, a popular comic website, copyright infringement allegations and a fundraising effort starring the attorney's mom and a Kodiak bear?
A lawsuit, of course.
Charles Carreon, an internet attorney who gained notoriety during the web's infancy litigating over the domain rights to sex.com, sued The Oatmeal last week, claiming his squabble with the popular humor site has incited "cyberterrorism" against himself, in the form of hackers infiltrating his website, a phantom Twitter account under his name antagonizing people and unsolicited subscriptions to porn sites.
Caught up in the 56-year-old's lawsuit filed June 15 in San Francisco federal court are Matthew Inman, creator of the The Oatmeal; Indiegogo, a San Francisco website that helps people raise money online; and the American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federation.
Including the charities in the lawsuit has particularly enraged a legion of fans of The Oatmeal, already upset that Carreon brought an internet feud to the halls of justice.
The web kerfuffle in a nutshell?
A year ago, Inman claimed he found some of his comics posted on Funny Junk -- a website that aggregates humorous material -- without crediting or linking them to The Oatmeal. On his blog, a frustrated Inman asked readers what he should do about it, saying cease and desist letters were not effective. He summarized Funny Junk's business model saying they slather funny pictures accumulated from around the internet, collect "six figure advertising checks from other artists' stolen material," and "If someone claims copyright infringement, throw your hands up in the air and exclaim 'It was our users who uploaded your photos! We had nothing to do with it! We're innocent!' "
Fast forward to June 2, when Carreon, on behalf of Funny Junk, wrote Inman demanding he take down the blog post accusing his client of copyright infringement and pay $20,000 to make up for lost advertising revenue.
Carreon, speaking by phone from his Tucson office, said his client is not a "willful copyright infringer." Funny Junk, by its nature, receives many notices to remove copyrighted materials and they oblige, Carreon said. He helped write the site's policy which makes members promise not to infringe on copyrights and that repeat offenders would be barred. The attorney claimed the $20,000 was used more as a threat and he would have been happy to have the Funny Junk blog post simply taken down.
That didn't happen.
Inman, who depicts himself as a pterodactyl who will "ptero-you a new (expletive)", includes a video of how he handles his enemies on his site.
"In his character as a carnivorous, prehistoric flying reptile that first rips the intestines out of a man's anus, then flogs him with his entrails, then steals a pineapple from a boy, tears his head off, flings it (at) a girl and knocks (her) head off, then grinds up the girl's head up in a wood-chipper, blends it with the pineapple, and drinks the grisly cocktail," Carreon explains in his lawsuit. He adds that Inman's followers embrace his "brutal ideology."
In ptero-style, Inman posted Carreon's letter on his website and said he would not pay the $20,000, but instead raise that amount to be split between the American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federation, and send the attorney a photograph of the cash along with a drawing of Carreon's mom seducing a kodiak bear. Born was the charity fundraiser dubbed "BearLove Good. Cancer Bad."
In his lawsuit, Carreon described the fundraising logo as a "misogynistic cartoon depicting an obese female dressed in her underwear, with pendulous breasts popping out of her brassiere, an enormous posterior distended by an overstretched thong, rouged cheeks, and a crudely-lipsticked mouth, calling out to an apparently disinterested brown bear half her size, 'COME HURR AND LOVE MEEEE!'"
"Unbeknownst to Mr. Inman, I was very, very attached to my mom," Carreon said by phone, referring to his mother as "a nice Catholic woman" who died in a drowning accident. "It struck a nerve."
"My client came up with this creative, if not funny, way to respond to a legal threat," said Corrine McSherry, intellectual property director with San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation who is representing Inman pro bono. "And I think Mr. Carreon is not happy with the response. Mr. Carreon has been the subject of a great deal of criticism... and none of it is within my client's control."
Meanwhile, the fundraiser quickly surpassed $20,000. It has raised more than $200,000 for the two charities, with donations accepted through Monday.
And that has raised the ire of Carreon, who sued last week to create a trust with the proceeds to make sure the money goes to the two charities and not Inman.
"Of course he's going to give it all to charity," McSherry said. "At the end of the day, what this lawsuit is about is punishing someone engaging in critical speech. That's the core of the lawsuit."
Carreon also asks for damages claiming trademark infringement and incitement of cybervandalism.
Carreon claims someone created a Twitter account with his trademarked name and engaged in "verbal combat" with other Twitter users.
"Don't tell me that's parody. You can't say: '@Nissan Automotive: Fords suck they get bad gas mileage,'" he said. "I have control over my commercial image."
In addition, Carreon has mysteriously been signed up for numerous porn sites, along with people leaving him voicemails pretending to vomit and ordering him pizzas without his knowledge.
"That was truly not innovative," he laughed.
Carreon said he contacted the charities who were unaware of the fundraising effort.
"That explains why there is so much fraudulent fundraising going on because they don't monitor it," Carreon said. "Look, I have no interest in supporting the object of making fun of my mom, but I'm all about giving support to the American Cancer Society and Wildlife Federation."
The San Francisco website hosting the fundraiser discounted the lawsuit.
"As the largest crowdfunding platform operating in nearly 200 countries Indiegogo exists to provide crowdfunding opportunities worldwide," said Slava Rubin, the company's CEO and co-founder, in a released statement, "and a frivolous lawsuit doesn't change Indiegogo's commitment to this creative and popular campaign."
The two charities did not respond to media requests Friday.
Meanwhile, Carreon responded to the criticism that his lawsuit was mere retribution.
"Vengeance against Mr. Inman is something I don't need and I don't want," he said.
Inman's attorney countered:
"The right answer to speech you don't like is more speech, not a lawsuit."
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.
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Ann Jun 17, 2012 @5:45 pm As a non-lawyer, may I ask what the chances of his disbarment for this behavior are? It's very frightening for a blogger/writer/social media marketer when an attorney can force you into having to spend money on an attorney, even just to respond to a letter, let alone a suit. His family members are now making threats towards commenters on Twitter and news articles that if they keep criticizing him they will be subpoenaed. It's gone from funny to frightening and tragic. I'd like to blog about the issue, but I also don't have the money to be retaining an attorney if I were to become one of the Does. Advice?
This is one of the little lying bitches working for Matt Inman, if it's true her name is "Ann," and she's really a girl. "She's" very active on his behalf. I wonder how much he's paying "her." Actually, the person who first threatened was STStone. The "threat" she's referring to "family members" having made is this joke I made back to him that Charles would be subpoenaeing his harddrive to prove that he was a media mole, when he threatened to call Sony Pictures to complain about my Labyrinth screenplay post. "Ann" wants to make it the cause of a Crusade. Poor, little, fearful Ann who is afraid to blog and twitter because of evil people like Tara Carreon. We found out that the person impersonating Charles at Charles-Carreon.com is actually a girl. Is it perhaps "Ann"? If so, "Ann" is definitely going to get sued. She can count on it. But she won't be named as a DOES, rather as a named defendant.
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STStone, Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:42pm
I wonder if Sony Pictures knows you have its intellectual property (in the form of the Labyrinth screenplay) hosted on your site without its permission.
Maybe I should contact the studio and find out.
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:45pm
There's a library exemption to copyright infringement. See the other thread "Carreon continues to lash out."
STStone, Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:48pm
There's a library exemption to copyright infringement.
Show me the exact wording in any relevant judicial case or active part of copyright law that creates a "library exemption", and I will believe you.
Until then, you'll have to excuse me -- I need to start finding the email addresses of some major book and film publishers.
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:54pm
I already replied to YOU on the other thread. But I'm happy to repost it here.
I'll just quote the statute and add a comment and explain how it applies in the online context. Of course, you could have googled "copyright + library" and found it yourself, but that is apparently above your grade level.
17 USC § 108 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives
Current through Pub. L. 112-128. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
" (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title and notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for a library or archives, or any of its employees acting within the scope of their employment, to reproduce no more than one copy or phonorecord of a work, except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), or to distribute such copy or phonorecord, under the conditions specified by this section, if
(1) the reproduction or distribution is made without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage;
(2) the collections of the library or archives are
(i) open to the public, or
(ii) available not only to researchers affiliated with the library or archives or with the institution of which it is a part, but also to other persons doing research in a specialized field; and
(3) the reproduction or distribution of the work includes a notice of copyright that appears on the copy or phonorecord that is reproduced under the provisions of this section, or includes a legend stating that the work may be protected by copyright if no such notice can be found on the copy or phonorecord that is reproduced under the provisions of this section."
At the American Buddha Online Library (ABOL), we have a notice posted that applies this section to the reproduction of transient digital copies on the user's computer, and voila, we have immunity from copyright infringement liability. No court has ever pronounced on the viability of this theory of copyright infringement immunity, and our legal counsel, Charles Carreon, has thusfar carried the day in defense litigation directed at ABOL by Penguin USA. Litigation is the test, and ABOL has passed it. Theorize in a knowledge vacuum if you are so inclined. In space, no one can hear you bloviate.
STStone, Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:58pm
So, basically, you think calling your website a "library" and saying "copyright law doesn't apply to me" will save your ass if a few big name book publishers and movie studios come a-callin' over the fact that you put up their legally-protected works online and tried to circumvent copyright law by calling the site you hosted their works on a "library"?
You might find your husband willing to make the argument for you in court, but any competent attorney would tell you to shut up, take the infringing content down, and pray that those publishers don't seek restitution for your infringment upon copyright law.
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 4:59pm
Since when did you become a copyright chicken hawk? You probably still have MP3s and movies on your hard drive that you got through illegal file-sharing on Napster, Kaaza, and Pirate Bay, you hypocrite. Better delete all of them right now before Charles subpoenas them to prove that you're a media mole.
STStone, Jun 17th, 2012 @ 5:04pm
Subpoena me for what -- saying things you don't like?
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 5:13pm
So far, ABOL has responded to a handful of DMCA notices, to which ABOL has replied with counternotices that have universally been accepted as valid by numerous international publishers, all of whom have accepted the legitimacy of ABOL as a library by taking no further action after the content was reposted. The sole exception to this is Penguin USA, that sued three years ago in the SDNY, was promptly pitched out of court by District Judge Lynch for lack of personal jurisdiction, appealed to the 2nd Circuit, ("American Buddha I") that booted the jurisdictional issue up to the New York Court of Appeals ("American Buddha II"), that sent it back to Judge Koeltl, who is now administering jurisdictional discovery, after which the motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction will be renewed, and we anticipate, granted, after American Buddha establishes its pure non-profit bona fides by showing no income.
As an aside, no music publisher or movie studio has ever submitted a DMCA notice. It would seem that the RIAA accepts the library-lending exemption, which is buttressed by a downloading blocker that prevents more than one MP3 from being played at any time by any user, such that it is no different in its operations from the old-fashioned listening booths, i.e., a room with a turntable and a speaker, that were available for years at public libraries before the collapse of informational services at the neighborhood paper bricks and mortar level.
With regard to transcriptions of screenplays and illustrated screencap galleries, American Buddha first became a huge resource in this field with its ground-breaking illustrated screenplay method of presenting Richard Linklater's "Waking Life," and became the go-to-source for students of that seminal post-modern work. Should any question of legal action arise, the statute of limitations, three years for copyright infringement, has long ago expired on virtually all of the motion picture content, since I was most prolific in that field a few years back, and have lately concentrated on archiving rare and otherwise unavailable works such as Jung's recently-published "Red Book," which will not be found outside a few rare-book reading rooms in American libraries. Thanks to my oversized scanner and trusty Dell Quad-Core, students of Jung can have access to this all-important work, that was kept unpublished for many years after his death by his literary executors, which I bought at the first opportunity.
Perhaps it is a mark of your own insufficient self-worth, perhaps due to not giving away enough of your labor, and instead holding forth spitting bile in digital fora, that you speak of things regarding which you have no understanding. Indeed, I will assume this and as a scholar, commend you to your books.
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 5:17pm
For all of that illegal content on your hard drive. You'll have to seek a protective order to keep your porn stash private. What's your preference -- het, gay, bi, BDSM?
STStone, Jun 17th, 2012 @ 5:20pm
What law does he plan to subpoena me under? I haven't...
...wait. Did you just vaguely threaten to try and out me to the general public using a subpoena and use that as a tool to embarass and humiliate me?
WOW. You, darling, have sunk lower than your husband.
TaraCarreon (profile), Jun 17th, 2012 @ 5:36pm
"Darling?" Since we're exchanging terms of endearment, let's play a real free speech game. I link you to the ABOL archive of Italian spanking imagery, and to its screencap gallery of the lesbian bondage classic scene from Sexus, original music by Chet Baker, directed by Jose Benazaref, and you tell me which you like better.
"Outing?" That's so pre-Obama! Who could "out" anyone for any sexual proclivity short of pederasty now, and claim any kind of "left" credentials? You're not suggesting something truly outre, are you?
And about the subpoena, JK. I have no control over what Charles does. He's an officer of the court, who would never abuse his authority.
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These little cannibal kids think they're so brave, standing up for the sadist Matt Inman, tearing a good lawyer's name apart, a lawyer who is practically a saint, who has worked for the underprivileged and poor his whole adult life, while they post anonymously. If they're so brave, then why don't they post under their real names, and give us the opportunity to tear their names apart? Put up hate sites using their names? Because in this new fascist "Internet" world we live in, the anonymous people deserve free speech, while those with names, deserve to have their identities destroyed. That is so American -- not!
And -- they hate dolphins! These people are the opposite of "progressive." Like I said, they are our modern-day "Hitler youth," and Matt Inman is their Hitler -- not even the person Hitler, just "Hitler's port-a-potty." And they're proud of it. They think it's funny. They think they can take any racist, bigoted, regressive idea and legitimize it by putting it into a cartoon.
Then, I would say, we really need to watch out for cartoons.
I compare Matt Inman to the cartoonist Al Capp, an evil man who I'm pretty sure was part of the conspiracy to kill John Lennon. He visited him just before he died and ridiculed the hell out of him. Got a big kick out if it, he did.
Charles is like John Lennon.
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Al Capp also attacked Joan Baez, another heroine for peace:
Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With wrote:
Al Capp, creator of the "L'il Abner" comic strip, launched the most imaginative of the negative attacks, introducing a character into his strip called Joanie Phoanie. She was a slovenly, two-faced, showbiz slut, a thinly disguised Commie, who traveled around in a limousine singing "songs of protest against poverty and hunger for $10,000.00 a concert." She put out albums like, If It Sounds Phoanie It's Joanie, which included "Lay Those Weapons Down, McNamara," "Throw Another Draft Card on the Fire!" and "Let's Conga with the Viet Cong."
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Charles and I FOIA'ed Al Capp's FBI documents. Apparently, he worked for the national security state as one of their propagandists, because he had done a bad thing once and was a member of the Communist Party.
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By letter of 6/26/69, our Boston Office submitted a reprinted speech delivered by Al Capp, the well-known cartoonist, at the Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New Hampshire, on 4/27/69, appearing in the 6/25/69 edition of "The Boston Globe." In his speech, Capp is critical of Harvard University's handling of student agitation and during the speech, takes Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith to task. Also submitted is a "Letter to the Globe from Al Capp" which appeared in the same edition of the Globe. In this letter, Capp alleges that Galbraith in commencement addresses made unfavorable references to both Capp and Mr. Hoover. According to Capp, Galbraith supposedly questioned the right of Capp and the Director to comment on the campus situation since neither had any experience in the field. Capp then largely defends the Director and ends his letter by making reference to the FBI National Academy as a great "graduate" school and states: "No student of Hoover's ever burned his country's flag, beat up his instructors, or screeched obscenities at school the day he graduated."
This material was submitted with the thought that the Director may want to write Mr. Capp thanking him for his favorable comments. [delete]
By letter dated 6/27/69, [delete] secretary to Al Capp, sent, at Mr. Capp's direction, copies of the aforementiond commencement address and letter to the Globe to the Bureau. [delete] expressed gratitude to our Boston Office for its help in furnishing him information regarding the Director.
Both Al Capp (also known as Alfred G. Capplin) and John Kenneth Galbraith are, of course, well-known to the Bureau. In the past, Capp has been praised by the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) and its publications for some of his comic strips which have implied, among other things, that the American economy was being mismanaged by vicious tycoons, that several persons were converted to outcasts because of questioning concerning them by government investigators and like matters. In 1961, a Congressman criticized Capp for unfair attacks on law enforcement officers in his comic strip, "Li'l Abner," and, that same year, Capp wrote in a column that during the 1930's he was too poor to pay a membership fee in a social club that turned out to be the Young Communist League. He concluded that if he had joined, thirty years later any Congressional Committee would be entitled to call him a traitor and any
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investigative agency would be entitled to reject his services to his country. [delete] [delete] admittedly held a position in the CPUSA during the late 1930's. In recent years, Capp has become increasingly conservative in many of his views. In addition to his cartooning, he has become a very active speaker who expresses strong views against student agitation. Galbraith, subject of FBI investigations in 1941, 1950, 1961, and 1965, is widely known as a liberal and one who has been a sharp critic of American foreign policy through his participation in the Americans for a Democratic Action. Our investigations reflect Galbraith was closely associated with individuals affiliated with communist front groups and, in the case of [delete] a Communist Party member in 1961, Galbraith's name was in the files of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
That despite Capp's previous background, inasmuch as he has in recent years shown a tendency toward a more conservative point of view and since his letter to the Globe does contain favorable comments regarding the Director and the Bureau, it would seem appropriate to write him a letter expressing appreciation for these kind comments.
That in line with above, attached letter be sent to Mr. Capp.
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Wow, Al Capp as "the Fearless Fosdick of the youth-baiting right." That's what we're looking at in Matt Inman. Every national security state needs a sadistic cartoonist, or two or three. Otherwise, how would they make "funny" looking pictures of the Japanese in order to run a hate campaign against them, and put them in concentration camps?
FBI -- John Kenneth Galbraith wrote:
The new sages in the university world, the sources of the advice on how to end disorder, are Strom Thurmond and John McClellan and their allies of the late feudal era in the United States Senate; and Joseph Alsop, whom we had hitherto celebrated as the Edward Gibbon of the Viet Cong; and Al Capp, whom many of us had supposed was the permanent Peter Pan but who is now the Fearless Fosdick of the youth-baiting right; and J. Edgar Hoover, poor old man, as he makes the unhappy transition from the good old-fashioned Communists he knows and cherishes to the incomprehensible S. D. S.; and Spiro Agnew and Walter Annenberg.
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5:23 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Would you allow a Islamic hospital that takes Federal Funds to discriminate against women. ? Or a Mormon church run daycare in the 1970's to have refused to hire blacks ?
Its that simple !!!!
6:15 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Another day, another "holier than thou" posting by Donald Lee.
7:00 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
If a Muslim or Catholic chaplain contracted by the Army to provide services refuses to counsel a gay couple, based on the chaplains religious beliefs, one of whom is injured, would you accept that ?
Its that simple !!!
Donald Lee
11:51 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
Would that couple *want* counseling from an official of a faith that disapproves of their union? I think not. Would the army *force* the couple to get their counseling from that disapproving chaplain in the name of "equal treatment"? I hope not, but I'm not so sure.
This is not a road we want to go down. Freedom of expression and of choice is far far better than imposing some ill-defined "equality" on everyone.
James Warden
12:22 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
This isn't relevant to the video, but I wanted to add context to the discussion on Army chaplains lest the job get distorted. I have a selfish reason for doing this. I'm the son of an Army chaplain.
When my fahter was a unit chaplain, he counseled people of different faiths all the time — Catholics, Mormons, even Wiccans. The military is extremely ecumenical. Plus, counseling isn't always — or even usually — about matters of faith. A large part of the job is just helping soldiers and families deal with the stresses of military life. A chaplain is often the only person for soldiers to talk to who's at least somewhat removed from the military hierarchy.
One other note: Many in the chaplain corps, including my father, argue that a major part of a chaplain's job is protecting the freedom of religion — ensuring that soldiers of all faiths have access to the spiritual guidance they need.
All this is to say there are plenty of times when a Muslim or Catholic chaplain would end up helping couples of a different faith, and there are plenty of times couples would welcome it.
2:42 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Its not a question of wanting counseling from an official of faith that disapproves their union. The official of a faith made a choice to enter the public square to provide a service. Can they then enter the public square and then claim their Freedom of expression and choices have been limited ?
If a Catholic or Muslim hospital takes Medicare, then they are entering the public square. Can a Muslim hospital claim they will not hire women ? Not in their mosque but in a public hospital.
Donald Lee
3:59 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Responding to James Warden - Exactly right. The point is that both the counselors, and the conselees have a choice. A Catholic chaplain may well counsel on housing issues, or general stress, but probably would not be the right choice for a homosexual with sexual issues. A faithful chaplain would not want to do it, and the counselee would not be comfortable. The logic of "anti-discrimination" forces both of them to pretend that the tension over obvious issues does not exist.
4:35 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Donald, quit dancing around the issue. Catholic churches and other religions have a choice. And when they make that choice to enter the public square then they cannot claim that following the law of the land is some kind of interference of their religious beliefs.
Donald Lee
4:01 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Good column providing details of an incident that often gets play in this debate:
8:06 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
How is providing a photo service accepting a gay couples views. Catholic Social Services often contracts with states to provide social services. It is fully agreed upon that for non catholics to visit their sites is not an infringement of their religious rights. So what's the difference ?
Donald Lee
9:59 am on Sunday, November 4, 2012
Can you clarify this question? I don't understand what you are asking.
6:20 am on Monday, November 5, 2012
It's not considered a violation of either parties religious freedoms when institutions such as Catholic Services contract and provide services to the general public which includes gays.
Similarly how and why could taking a photograph of a gay couple be a violation of freedom ? It is a service, just like proving meals by catholic services ?
Donald Lee
11:47 am on Monday, November 5, 2012
Forcing people to do what they don't want to do is a problem. Taking pictures is no a problem. Forcing people to take pictures is a problem. Same with catholic institutions. They are free to make contracts, and also to refuse to make contracts, which is as it should be.
Say you are an accountant. You decide to refuse to serve an existing client, who happens to be homosexual, and happens to be militant. In fact, he has a habit of insulting your other clients because they don't approve of him. You decide to dump that client, because he is not worth the grief.
Being a homosexual, he has the "legal club" that he can wield to force you to serve him. His recent speech hints strongly that his "preferences" have been a factor in your decision to dump him. His lawsuit can force you to keep him as a client.
Is this what we want?
9:26 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
A gay person has no choice but to accept social services from a Catholic Charity, if that is the contracted agency in his/her county. The mere interaction of people/institutions with two different religous/moral views has never been considered forcing ones view on others. So why should it be different for a lay photographer and a gay person/couple.
Your accountant analogy is specious. Many people use "legal clubs" that suit their circumstances. Starting with companies and their patent trolling. Assigning it as some kind of reason to deny gay rights is grasping for straws.
Donald Lee
6:09 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
An excellent article that points out some obvious points about the mariage amendment and Same Sex Marriage: http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=4bd9a8e1-d2e3-4e27-8ff9-13225099eea5&url=why_a_good_person_can_vote_against_samesex_marriage
9:14 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
"To argue that opposition to same-sex marriage is immoral is to argue that every moral thinker, and every religion and social movement in the history of mankind prior to the last 20 years in America and Europe was immoral. About no other issue could this be said. Every moral advance has been rooted in prior moral thinking. "
The same analogy could be made for women's rights. Women's suffrage became popular only in the later 18th and early 19th Century. Therefore by Pragers analogy women had no right to be treated as equal before that nor after that because in earlier history of man there was no great moral calls for equality of women as we have it today. Right ?
James Warden
7:12 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
@Donald, I wholeheartedly agree. We're taking care of it as fast as we can. Sorry for the delay.
Donald Lee
10:48 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I presume the comment is about the spammers, not SSM. ;->


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Even in the course of its bruised history, few have ever reproached Berlin for a lack of dynamism. Indeed, the scope of Berlin's iconic energy has spread like wildfire, and "Berlin" as buzzword has only grown in global art circles, as the city has left recovery mode and become a reconstituted cultural capital that's thoroughly modern, fit with a glamour that hints at its Weimar yesteryear. Berlin's tolerance for the eccentric has withstood her many re-fashionings and facelifts, even with the city's current status as a contemporary art capitol, so it's no wonder that May in Berlin would be dedicated to live art and performance, that rampant visual art offshoot growing in popularity like Kudzu.


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This game is broken into several episodes and not one complete game...why??? Probably, just another way for the developers to "milk" their players for more money...not to mention...you have to download the game off of a hosting program like Steam...lame! Corporations have taken the gaming industry to a new low...thank God we still have independent developers out there!
@luciddreamer78 Not really. You pay $5 for five episodes that is probably some of the best quality gaming this generation. Don't be cheap. This game's price is.


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作者: Nigel Cameron and John Wyatt
日期: 20.08.2010
Category: 人类的未来
Editor's Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Nigel Cameron and John Wyatt as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on "Ethics, Emerging Technologies and the Human Future." Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation will be fed back to the authors and others to help shape their final presentations at the Congress.
What does it mean to be human? In traditional thought there has always been a clear distinction between "natural" beings, derived from the natural order, and those that were "artifacts," a product of human ingenuity and craft. For many centuries our embodied human nature was the last frontier of the natural order. Although human beings could modify and instrumentalise every other aspect of their environment, they could not escape the "given-ness" of their own humanity.
But the rapid development of emerging technologies is about to create a new and profoundly troubling assault on human identity in the 21st century. This new assault cuts to the quick of our anthropology: it focuses on the fundamental relationship between our artifacts and our own nature, between our manipulative capabilities and our own selves. It was this recognition that drove C.S. Lewis, back in the dark days of 1943, to write his prophetic essay on "The Abolition of Man," perhaps the most penetrating statement yet made of the greatest question that will confront the 21st century. The pivotal significance of the Christian belief that we are made in the image of God is about to be tested as never before.
Lewis argued that while technology appeared to extend the human race's ability to control and subdue nature, "what we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument." There can be no "increase in power on Man's side. Each new power won by Man is a power over Man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. In every victory, besides the general who triumphs, he is a prisoner who follows the triumphal car. . . . Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. We shall … be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish it to be. The battle will indeed be won. But who, precisely, will have won it? . . . . Man's final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man."
In other words by taking to ourselves the power to determine our own future, we turn ourselves into creatures of our own design, artifacts of our own manufacture.
Human Dignity and the "Biotech Century"
The question we face is what to do with the extraordinary new powers that we are taking to ourselves. Developments in human genetics, biotechnology, pharmacology, neuroscience and nanomedicine raise high hopes of cures for terrible diseases, including inherited disorders, cancer and degenerative conditions. Yet as C S Lewis warned, the spectacular promise which these technologies offer, driven in part by a noble desire to combat the destructive consequences of disease, always carries a darker side – the instrumentalisation and manipulation of vulnerable human lives.
We are in the process of gaining unparalleled understanding of the human genome. It is hoped that this new knowledge will lead to precisely targeted drugs and sophisticated new clinical applications. But this explosion in genetic knowledge has also led directly to new and sophisticated means of identifying and destroying embryonic and fetal human beings who carry unwanted genetic variants. This way of dealing with disease by destroying those who carry it offends the consciences of many more than those who call themselves "pro-life." It should perhaps be no surprise that in Germany, where they have not forgotten what eugenics means, in vitro fertilisation is perfectly legal, but embryos must be implanted without quality control.
Reproductive technology has enabled couples to overcome the pain of infertility, but it has also led to the deliberate creation of embryonic human beings for destructive research, and the creation of cloned embryos and even human-animal hybrids. As Oliver O'Donovan warned we have replaced "the old-fashioned crime of killing babies" with "the new and subtle crime of making babies to be ambiguously human, of presenting to us members of our own species who are doubtfully proper objects of compassion and love."
There is a tendency for ethically-conservative religious people to define such debates in "pro-life" terms, and in the process, despite their intentions, to have the effect of aiding those in the science, business and policy communities who are resistant to calls for ethical limitations in these technologies. By asserting their position on abortion as the paradigm of the agenda, they unwittingly marginalise their position and make it difficult to build common cause with wider forces in the culture who may share many of their concerns – about particular aspects of the technologies in question; about the need in principle for limits; and about the profound significance of these questions of policy.
But we make a big mistake if we see discussion of the human future as mainly concerning reproductive and embryo issues, for the most sobering scenarios lie ahead and elsewhere. In the field of neuroscience the emerging technologies are enabling us to monitor, control, manipulate and enhance our brain function. It is becoming increasingly possible to manipulate perception and memory, whether through neuro-pharmacology (including what has been termed "cosmetic neurology") or cognitive prostheses.
The goal of technology is not only to understand the world but to control it, and neuroscience offers potent new possibilities for social control. Take all the forms of human behaviour which threaten our future – violence, inter-racial conflict, religious fanaticism, addiction, selfish squandering of the world's resources. At heart these can all be seen as due to malfunctioning of the human brain. If we can only understand how to prevent this faulty cognitive processing, we will be able to usher in a new dawn of social harmony and global peace. By making our own human functioning an object of scientific study – by objectifying ourselves – we hope to control ourselves, to achieve self-mastery.
Since so-called "religious fundamentalism" is regarded as a major source of social and political conflict, it is not surprising that an active area of neuroscience research is into the brain mechanisms which underlie religious beliefs and experiences, and the cognitive processes which lie at the formation of moral beliefs and the resolution of moral conflicts and dilemmas. It does not require much imagination to see the manipulative and coercive possibilities which this knowledge will bring. At the same time, advances in stem cell technology and regenerative medicine enable us to enhance our functioning and extend human life span, and create human-machine interfaces of unparalleled power.
Genetic and biological science erodes the traditional distinction between humanity and the animal world. We are merely one primate species amongst many others. On the other hand, emerging technologies erode the distinction between the human and the artifact. We are merely machines made out of carbon instead of silicon. How can we preserve our unique human identity and help to create a genuinely pro-human future in the light of these technological challenges?
As biblical Christians our starting-point remains in the creation narratives of Genesis, where we read that humans are made in the image of God himself – with a mandate to rule and steward the creation for God – and in the New Testament, where we read that Jesus Christ is God made flesh – God himself taking our human form. So Christians are called to treat the human body, with its strange and idiosyncratic design, with special respect. This is the form in which God became flesh. We are neither animals nor machines – we are humans made in God's image; he has taken that image for his own by joining us in our membership in the species Homo sapiens. As we rule and steward the creation – including the extraordinary possibilities of science and technology – it is as human beings accountable and responsible to him and stewards of what he has made.
The "pro-human" cause presents as the great question of the 21st century, as we confront the rapid development of emerging technologies and their offer of powers to aid or undermine our humanness at the most fundamental level.
Key Questions raised by Emerging Technologies
Several sets of questions should be on our minds as we consider policy approaches to these technologies. They intersect but offer different standpoints from which to view and critique both the technologies themselves and the matrix of law and practice within which they are applied. A future that is both pro-technology and pro-human will depend on their answers.
1. Commodification. As our powers extend over our own bodies and the bodies of others, and technologies lead to products and processes, questions of intellectual property will occupy centre-stage. A case in point: in the United States there was a recent debate over whether human embryos could be patented. The biotechnology industry, though its trade group BIO, argued that genetically-engineered human embryos were appropriate subjects of patent claims. How can we protect vulnerable human beings – the modern equivalents of widows, orphans and aliens – from the manipulative possibilities of technology?
2. Eugenics. There is growing pressure for eugenic uses of in vitro fertilisation, not simply to screen out embryos with genetic diseases, but also to select the sex and other "desirable" inherited characteristics of our future children. And within society, there is corresponding pressure for various forms of genetic discrimination – in employment and insurance, especially. In Christian thought the dignity of a human being resides not in our function or our biological potential, but in what we are, by creation. In the literal words of the eighth psalm, each one of us is "lacking a very little of God" (Psalm 8:5). Our human dignity is intrinsic, in the way we have been made, in how God remembers us and calls us. How can we preserve and defend the biblical understanding that each human life has a unique and incalculable value because of the indwelling image of God?
3. "Enhancement." Whether through genetics or nanotechnology and cybernetics, it is likely that we shall see the development of human enhancements, especially in cognition – in effect blending human and machine through such means as the implanting of brain chips for memory, skills or communication. The logic of such developments is far-reaching, since while they would begin incrementally and through dual-use devices with genuine medical applications (for example, for stroke victims), they would have longer-term impact through compounding both the intelligence and the wealth of a small segment of society, perhaps leading ultimately to a new feudalism in which power of all kinds is concentrated in the hands of "enhanced" persons.
We should also note the steady growth of "transhumanism," a network of science-fiction enthusiasts and outlandish thinkers who deliberately seek radical changes in human nature. They have recently begun to move from the fringes of society into mainstream contexts, and are pressing the idea of radical "enhancement" in academic and policy-making circles.
In contrast, the resurrection of Christ as a physical human being can be seen as God's vote of confidence in the created human nature. The original design of human beings is not abandoned, despised or marginalised; it is affirmed and fulfilled. In Jesus, the second Adam, we see both a perfect human being – what the original Adam was meant to be – and we see the pioneer, the blueprint for a new type of person – the one in whose likeness a new creation will spring, the first fruits of those who are to come (1 Corinthians 15:20). God declares that for all future time he will sustain, redeem and transform the humanity that was originally made.
The resurrection is God's final and irrevocable "Yes" to humankind. If we take the biblical doctrines of the incarnation and resurrection seriously, perhaps we should conclude that the physical structure of our human bodies is not something we are free to change without very careful thought. How can emerging technologies with their extraordinary power be used not to manipulate and destroy but to better fulfill our humanness?
The great issues of ethics and policy that we face are all focused on questions of human dignity and the significance of human nature. Developments in emerging technologies are leading to very great increases in our power over human nature itself. While policy must address a wide range of questions, at the heart of the agenda for the 21st century lies the need to build a policy framework in which ethical principles set the ground-rules for our use of these new powers. In parallel with legislative and regulatory interventions in particular technology areas (for example, in relation to cognitive enhancement, or animal-human chimeras), the intellectual property landscape must be shaped to secure human nature from commodification; and genetic discrimination, itself the obverse of eugenics, must be comprehensively outlawed. A robust approach to each of these questions will enable us to welcome emerging technologies with their extraordinary capacity to enhance not human nature but our capacity to be human, that we may better fulfill our humanness. At the same time, as our recent experience of genetically-modified foods demonstrates, it is not in the interests of the scientific or business communities to develop technologies that are freighted with controversy, and those who would take a lead in the development of pro-human technology policies will find allies in many quarters.
Of course, every application of every new technology will be presented to us as yet another wonderful benefit for human beings that will make life better and easier. The Brave New World question that must always be asked is, at what cost? Lewis's essay on "The Abolition of Man" opens with a potent quotation from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with which we conclude: "It came burning hot into my mind, whatever he said and however he flattered, when he got me home to his house, he would sell me for a slave."
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I suppose all of the emerging technologies can be seen as good or bad. If these technologies can be used to find cures for diseases and cure things like birth defects in children, it would be good. If it gets into the genetic modification, it is not a good thing. Where does good begin and then turn into evil? All the technology facing us is sometimes scary. Hopefully it can be used to bring glory to God and to help share the gospel around the world. In all of these issues, we must focus on God and work to keep others focused on God as well
An interesting outlook on emerging technologies. This paper emphasizes how humankind has and is continually trying to gain power over or humanness and our future.
As technological innovations continue to change the way our daily lives are lived, Cameron and Wyatt caution us that "the pivotal significance of the Christian belief that we are made in the image of God is about to be tested as never before." New technologies are leading us down a path where the lines between human and artifact. While these new discoveries and new applications will undoubtedly have the power to address some of the world's greatest problems, they also will present new opportunities to degrade human dignity and intensify wealth and power stratification.
The close of the paper asserts that "the resurrection of Christ as a physical human being can be seen as God's vote of confidence in the created human nature. . . . The resurrection is God's final and irrevocable 'yes' to humankind."
While Cameron and Wyatt have in their minds a vision of the future that evokes images of A Brave New World, The Matrix, and iRobot, their concerns are not fundamentally new. Each new epoch of innovation brings about new possibilities for the advancement of human society and stark warnings of the evils that may ensue. While it may be tempting to write off their questions as paranoid with perhaps a conspiratorial air, the authors' centering of technological restraint based on the incarnation and resurrection, is key. God chose to enter the world as human, with all the limitations that entails, and succumbed to the eventual end of entropy - death and decay - that nearly all human technological innovation seeks to thwart.
In the resurrection, God did thwart death and decay. And Christ was raised human! It is true that the resurrected Christ was, somehow, different. His perfected humanness is not fully manifest in us yet. It is the Spirit, not technology, that is at work within us to change us "from glory to glory." That is not a blanket condemnation of new technology or subsequent applications. But it is an exhortation to remember that no technology will save the world or alleviate all suffering. Christ has already done that. Our call is to subordinate the fidelity of technology to the work He's already (and, paradoxically not yet) done.
Well done, gentlemen. Well done.
Emerging tech goes far beyond and is wrapped deep within the concept of humanity.
Our digital identity and biological reality often become the focus of quantum considerations. As we address the problems of the minutiae of fragmentation let us not turn our eyes from the macro of God's creation. We were not created to be, nor redeemed through Christ for, fragmentation but rather for the resurrection of the body into eternal life.
Any threat to our inherent created special position and degrading of humanity to biological, neurological or technological details has to be challenged by the incarnational power of God-in-Flesh: redeeming and elevating humanity in eschatalogically informed hope.
The article is really helpful in beginning to challenge our thinking about the cost and the benefit of technological advance.
Just because it is possible does not mean it is necessary - indeed sometimes possibility must be constrained by truth and ethics and even theology.
I found the paper very interesting.
I think that that you are right that the new genetic technologies can drive us toward a kind of abolition of man.
The scriptural basis of your reflections are solid.
I think that we can use some ideas of some secular thinker like Michel Foucault. He talked of biological power and I think that sometimes we are close to this idea. The governance of biological technological can conduct to a new biological power on our bodies and the individual, in this new form of power can lose his humanities and also the control of his body.
Interesting and scary in a way. To see that what C.S. Lewis wrote about is happening today. An interesting read, connected to this subject and C.S. Lewis would be: 'Real Presence' - the Glory of Christ with us and within us, by Leanne Payne, Baker Book House, ISBN 0-8010-5172-X
I am not so convinced by the opposition between nature and technology in the introduction: I think the postulate should be nuanced (although it is partly done in the core of the paper).
A dialogue with epistemology could be interesting to connect technology, ethics, science and knowledge. Some elements could help us to see the very difficulty of the christian position towards technological progress: The prolegomena of science that are the base of technological development have kicked out the possible foundation of knowledge in a preexistent God. In other words, there is something deeply human at work here: sinful pride in the use of our capacities, yet still (common grace) incredible opportunities for progress.
I do agree with the author's emphasis on the necessity for christian to be present in discussions on technology, and not to step out immediately because of pro-life premices. Technology is always ambiguous, because it is structuraly (like all parts of our humanity) sinful: and we are, or will be, or can not always avoid to be participants, beneficiaries and in complicity with its sin. We still are to remain humbly but firmly prophetic voices that warn and address the sin there as in other issues (justice, prejudices etc)
Thanks guys--lots of food for thought. I'm looking forward to the multiplex! Presently I'm reading through C. S. Lewis's space trilogy, in particular "That Hideous Strength." The Abolition of Man takes on flesh in frightening form as NICE (the national institute for co-ordinated experiments) hits full stride with modifications to humanity.
But I wonder in this if we fall foul of Neil Postman's critique in Technopoly that by so emphasizing the problems with technology as prophets, that are dismissed by the populace who perhaps can only see (like techno-priests) the way technology has mediated blessings to the world.
I think you hit the nail on the head with this framing question: "How can emerging technologies with their extraordinary power be used not to manipulate and destroy but to better fulfill our humanness?"
Our church recently ran a forum--"Unplugged: Imaging God in a High Tech World" (see http://www.kbc.org.au/media/message-logos-unplugged/)--precisely on this question. Do our devices amplify or suppress a desire for the Kingdom. Does our use of technology magnify or mutilate the image of God in me?
I agree with one other response on this forum, asking to broaden the topic out beyond medical technology. What about the impact of multiplayer games, t.v., mobile phones, etc. ... how are we shaped by the media we use?
Does our use of technology lead to
Humility or Pride; Transformation or Information; Connection or Fragmentation; Serving or Self-Serving; Freedom or Addiction; Cultivating or Consuming.
This relates directly to evangelism, as Christ sends us not as a twitter from heaven or a detached word-file, but as a broken medium of flesh and blood. Our lives and community are the medium that either establishes or invalidates our message of the Kingdom of God. We definitely need wisdom as we soul search why our technology consumption and patterns are virtually identical to the surrounding world.
God bless as you tackle such a pressing but difficult and diverse topic :)
Thank you Nigel and John for your thought-provoking paper.
Moving to the question of "What then shall we do?", the answer you propose appears to be that Christians should discern the issues and hold fast to the dignity of human life as verified in the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Christian voices of orthodoxy iwould presumably shape public policy in the face of dehumanizing technology. This is where we need to carefully discern what you are proposing regarding the shaping of public policy.
I live in Colorado Springs, CO, the presumed "Mecca" of the expression of evangelicalism in the United States. In the minds of some Christians within the wider Church, the vocal attempts of several ministries to influence public policy have paradoxically increased the divide between the perceived secular and sacred and decreased the influence of the voice of the Church. It would be helpful to hear how an ethical influence in public policy is best presented by the church in a secular, pluralistic, and sometimes dehumanizing public arena. An inclusion of more "therefore..." would greatly help many of us.
Respectfully yours,
Sara Singleton
Thank you Nigel and John.
The first example of man's desire to manipulate genetics is found in Jacob's attempt to increase the flock with spots and speckles as found in Genesis 30:32-43. Though he did not have the knowledge and the technology we posses today he still pursued a course of action he thought would make the flock appear the way which was beneficiary to him. Jacob could be named the father of genetic engineering though his concepts were wrong scientifically. He had the vision. He believed in the possibility of interfering with nature to manipulate the outward appearance of animals. God did not need Jacobs help to do what Jacob wanted done. What is startling here is that God simply let it happen the way Jacob wanted it. But Jacob would have imagined himself a wise man interfering in the natural process of genetic selection.
Today we know a little better than Jacob. But our knowledge of God is not as much. God was not ashamed to call Himself the God of Jacob. We are so full of ourselves that we forget to fear God and thus misuse the scientific and technological capabilities. "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom" Pro.1:7 . Christian believers must use all what modern technology has to offer in the fear of God. It has been the choice they all ways had to make in every generation. We are no different.
A fictional concept that captures the same sentiment as the C.S. Lewis excerpts you quote is the "ring of power" in the "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. (Lewis and Tolkien were close friends.) When Gandalf is offered the ring he replies, "With that power, I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly... the way of the ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good... The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength."
Emerging technologies are providing humanity with a power both too great and terrible, too wonderful and waylaying. Or as you argue from the words of C.S Lewis, that here can be no increase in power on humanity's side since each new power won by humanity is a power over humanity as well (each advance leaves us weaker as well as stronger). This biblical truth about sinful human is narrated in fantasy (Tolkien) and philosophy (Lewis). Since the final conquest is our own abolition, we require saving from our own humanity and a reference external to ourselves.
This multiplex sesssion could include other ethical issues and emerging technologies, not only bioethical issues and medical technologies. What are the ethical concerns for other emerging technologies which could significantly affect our human future? Technologies such as mobile computing, social networking, genetically modified food, robotics, etc. Besides addressing the challenges of emerging technologies, the discussion should highlight the opportunities to employ new technologies for ministry.
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