* * * This message was from Amy Guskin to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.m * * *
         * * * and has been forwarded to you by Lord Time * * *         
            -----------------------------------------------             

{at}MSGID: 
{at}REPLY:
<4nm53cFb14a
>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:25:00 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article ):

> Doug Freyburger wrote:
> 
>> In all of the previous Shadow Wars, either the Shadows or
>> Vorlons won, and in the process somne species were
>> pushed to extinction and other species were pushed more
>> quickly to moving from body based life to spirit only life
>> and becoming First Ones.
> 
> I have a question.
> 
> Why is it assumed in SF-genres like B5, anything by Arthur C. Clarke, 
> various Star Trek episodes, some other places, that "spirit-only
life" 
> or energy-based existence is considered a progression from where we 
> humans are today?
> 
> I wonder, in earnest, about the origins of that idea. <<

I do, too.  I'm actually quite fond of my body (most of the time), and the 
pleasures of the flesh.  :-)

Amy
                                                                           
                                   
--- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32