[…] 43 folders[1] writes: Remember that your blog is only incidentally a publishing system or a public website. At its heart, your blog represents the evolving expression of your most passionately held ideas. It’s a conversation you’re holding up with the world and with yourself — a place where you can watch your own thoughts take different shapes and occasionally surprise you with where they end up… […]

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[…] This entry by GTD wizard Merlin Mann sort of surprised me. I had never thought about Merlin as someone who thought much about church services. […]

[…] productivity guru + passionate thoughts = church body It’s very cool to see productivity guru Merlin Mann of 43 Folders is contributing to the conversation about blogging and the church. He posts about being asked to write and essay for Brian Bailey’s book The Blogging Church. […]

[…] Brian Bailey has a new book called The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs. I’m really looking forward to getting this and reading this as soon as time, money, and family allow. Thanks to Merlin Mann for pointing this out. Merlin is a contributor to the book. […]

[…] Posted by attilachordash on February 21st, 2007 With this paragraph on blogging Merlin Mann of 43 Folders hit the nail on my head: “Remember that your blog is only incidentally a publishing system or a public website. At its heart, your blog represents the evolving expression of your most passionately held ideas. It’s a conversation you’re holding up with the world and with yourself — a place where you can watch your own thoughts take different shapes and occasionally surprise you with where they end up…” Well, I started Pimm at May, 2006, mainly with excerpts out my philosophy MA thesis, called The philosophical problems of human biotechnology and regenerative medicine. This is in no way a system (I don’t believe in the utility of any philosophical system), or intended to be, but a series of problem centered arguments. Additionally, I don’t think and seriously doubt, that there is a One & Only philosophical viewpoint, position or ideology, which fits best the problems of indefinite life extension. In the meantime as I got more and more immersed into stem cell research through my PhD years (what a Bildungsroman blog!), the profile of Pimm has changed in consonance with the strategy, that in order to make the idea of radical life extension acceptable, I must disclose the most important scientific basis of it, which is regenerative medicine in my opinion. It’s good to change the approaches here, one is a top-down, from philosophy (why?) to science (how?) and the other is the bottom-up from science to philosophy and ethics. And there is the constant problem and reality level of life extension in the middle with paths to the middle, bottom and top, i.e. the realities of the uprising biotechnology industry (when?). Here I collected the philosophical posts in one place: What is (and is not) partial immortalization? Why is partial immortalization theoretically and technologically possible? The parameters of a partially immortalized individual Why do we have the right to partially immortalize ourselves, if it is possible? 3 hypothetic cost stages of continuous regeneration treatment Why it is not a Grenzsituation to participate in a continuous regeneration treatment? Why is the moral problem of extending human lifespan is inevitable? Are you immortalized? Never mind, you are still a moral person! Moral, instrumental, human rights: framework for pimm philosophy How to protect the right for pimm when the costs are extremely high? Can partial immortalization be permissible to those who can buy it? […]

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