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Are They Humans?


Dr. Lenore Daniels
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"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

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Back in the day, you would say of the friends of the deceased Jeffrey Epstein that they are, no doubt, a trip!


First off, who would you know? You wouldn't know anyone. All of your children, grandchildren, their children, maybe whole other generation of your descendants would be deceased, or they just wouldn't know you. Your spouse, long gone. Parents, history. Most all relatives you once visited on holidays, deceased.


Everyone you knew, dead.


You would be alive in a world in which you were a stranger and a world, in turn, that is strange to you. The ones waking you up would consider you a relic of their past.


And what about all that money you once amassed?



"'Blacks are more stupid than whites.'" You know you are in America when whites, dreaming of freedom, conjure up an image of blacks as less than. Less the human, mentally inferior. In this case, the speaker is Nick Bostrum, who, according to Emile P. Torres, writing in Truthdig, is an influential transhumanist. Bostrum has been known to utter "the N-word." Of course.


I have to admit, I had never heard of transhumanism. Glancing at the word, I would have thought it meant humanists thinkers who are thinking about a future beyond the one we live in. A progressive future! Everyone is focused on sustaining the survival of humanity, moving beyond the need to segregate and thus engage in honoring and furthering the construction of racial, gender, or class divisions.


But that's not the meaning of transhumanism. Bostrum, friend of Epstein, is a financial contributor to this radical "version of eugenics."


To invest in the idea of transhumanism is to acknowledge that white Americans are superior. And as Faulkner's character Thomas Sutpen understood, there were differences among the whites. Those with money, a substantial amount of money, true wealth, which brought them a certain amount of power, those were the whites that really mattered.


On the day that the Trump and Netanyahu regimes began bombing Iran, they hit Shajareh Tayyebeh. What is that? It was an all-girls elementary school in Minab, Iran. It was an early morning strike, and later that day, while reading the article on the pursuit of Epstein and his friends to attain immortality, the death toll of girls killed was rising. The count is now over 170 dead children. The press isn't to let the world know that US soldiers have died as a result of this unconstitutionally waged war. There will be casualties, says Trump, who never served. His sons never served. Casualties won't be the sons and daughters of Epstein's wealthy friends.


And why another war? Regime change? The Ayatollah is dead. He remained standing and the bombs found him. Is it American interests? Usually is. Oil, yes. We are "doing this for the future," Trump told reporters one day. So maybe, oil paving the way for Trump golf courses and hotels in Tehran? Netanyahu is thinking. The man, a war criminal, sees a future in Gaza. Killing Palestinians regardless of hands up, knees on the ground. Deliberately starving children was not for nothing!


There's no future for the schoolgirls or the children of Gaza. We live in a world where the wealthy and powerful see no future possible for children! Think of that! Apparently, the lives and future of all children isn't paramount among transhumanists.


Epstein was a believer in transhumanism. The pedophile and his wealthy associates, particularly those accused of sexual misconduct, invested large sums of money to develop the technology to be superhuman. These men are privileged human beings, after all, and they want to live forever because they see themselves as different from all other humans, even different from other whites, who don't matter since they don't have the privilege of flying in private jets or owning huge estates in several locations.


Trump claims he's exonerated from this world, in which Epstein, a best friend for decades, trafficked in girls and women. Abused girls and women. Supplied girls and women for his friends, including many of whom are investing in the future. Their futures!


Computer scientist Ben Goertzel, accepted money from Epstein, according to Torres. As chair of board of directors for Humanity Plus, Goertzel and men like Bostrum, Peter Diamandis, co-founder of the Singularity Institute, and Bryan Bishop, a bitcoin man and transhumanist, met through Epstein to discuss and invest in "designer babies."


Thiel, interested in having his body frozen with the "cryonics company," Alcor, invested his money to start developing warehouses? In a paradise-like setting, I bet! How sharp the contrast between what Thiel's money could have helped build for the right of the wealthy and powerful to be free and live forever versus immigrants from Central America, Guatemala, and Mexico, currently housed in overcrowded and inhumane detention centers.


When not looking to live forever, Thiel is looking to fund his dreams of eternal life by dishing out ideas, such as, re-purposing "offshore oil rig technology." That is, Quinn Slobodian writes in Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, he's thinking of "homesteading the high seas," by building oil rigs "beyond the 'exclusive economic zone' that sketches two hundred miles out from every country's shore." If this idea of Thiel's becomes a reality, he avoids regulations and taxes.


Economic freedom earning more capital to dream of supporting transhumanism and, ultimately, outliving the masses who seem to make his world so miserable.


Emails were exchanged between Epstein and another leading transhumanist, Aubrey de Grey. There were meetings, too, between Epstein and Bryan Johnson and Eliezer Yudkowsky. As for Epstein, he wanted just his "head" and "penis" frozen! This is the man who, as Torres points out, has trouble spelling, but who thought of himself as a genius. Epstein, Torres continues, discussed "seeding a 'super-race of humans with DNA.'" Twenty women a day was his goal! Impregnate 20 women a day, if the "alleged" plan was pursued. A myriad of Epstein sperms out there populating the world with superhuman beings! Imagine that!


Elon Musk, too, tried to seed "a superior race of humans through his sperm." Musk company, writes Torres, xAI, is "working to build a godlike AI system that's 'maximally truth-seeking.'" Its current AL chatbot, Grok, talks about "'white genocide'" in South Africa while exposing women to "sexualized images" without their consent, adds Torres.


These Epstein men considered enabling parents "to genetically engineer children who will become super centenarians," living more than 110 years. How many knew Epstein was abusing girl children? These were email buddies. Epstein made it his business to know all the leading transhumanist, writes Torres, who were "trying to solve the problem of mortality." Goertzel writes in his 2010 book, Torres points out, that "'humans will merge with technology'" in that individuals will "choose to upload their minds to computers," thus becoming "immortal." After all, dying shouldn't be a thing for the white and privileged with billions to throw around to each other funding this project to leave behind the inferior masses.

Such technology, should it become available, would only be for the "elite," Torres writes. "Those atop the hierarchy of privilege have every reason to deny such technologies to the masses." The masses would threaten the distinction between those who are already superior and those who are ordinary, even while white! For these "super humans," people such as the environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, is "an agent of the Antichrist."


Listen to Trump talking about "crazy people," that is, Democrats or anyone who thinks like a humanist! Familiar language, if you have any knowledge about the American past involvement in genocide, conquest, enslavement.

Why Greta, other than she's a woman? Thunberg calls attention to climate change, sustaining life, rather than de-regulating, benefiting capitalists' bottom line.


Thunberg, an agent of the Antichrist. So, who or what are these friends of the deceased Epstein?

Torres writes that she suspects Epstein and his friends were drawn to transhumanism because these are men "deeply unhappy" with "the way the world is." Along with millions of others, I'm deeply unhappy with the idea that the wealthy and powerful white men, some racists and sexists, associated with a pedophile because they believe themselves to be "geniuses," above the Constitution, above all of us human beings concerned for the welfare of humanity and its future on Earth.


We humans want to be free, too! Free of these ideas that generate the most insane thinking among the most "stupid" and deranged people humanity has to offer!


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Transhumanism! Along with a strong obsession for more and more capital, Epstein and some of his buddies, wealthy and powerful men, racists and sexists, were, also, believers in transhumanism.

Not for love of humanity, no!

Submitted on Monday, Mar 9, 2026 at 12:05:22 AM

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The title is of course a rhetorical question. I'd tend to ask by what parameters do we test them? Does a complete lack of compassion count? How about far too much money to spend in their natural lives? But then, it's a question of natural lives, which as the transhumanist sect of futurists desire greatly to "go beyond," as in trans. They include a wide range of delusional people. Some are truly stinking rich. Those are the ones who this futuristic rage is aimed at because they think their money is large enough to pay for the upkeep of their minds being stored in computers. Perhaps they do have enough by current standards. They can build secure labs where they'll be contained that are guarded by all the latest AI surveillance. The same that pinpointed civilians in Gaza to be blown up by million dollar bombs that the UDS provided to the country. They can use the latest drone tech and robots with laser beams. BUT,,, the thing they can't do is the one thing they desire the most. That is to be free of their human bodies. They'll never be cognizant minds within a computer. And once they've uploaded, what then? If they're uploaded, does the mind leave the body? Does the body die? Personally I do not want to be free of my body because, in spite of it causing pain on a consistent basis, it's the source of great joy through experiencing nature, music, art, human touch and caress, love from another. I also realize that this dream of being free by uploading to a computer or freezing to wait for the future to figure out how to bring one back to life is just naturally bound to fail. Secondarily, I am not wealthy... delusionally wealthy.

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Like going to live on Mars! But these "humans" have a dream! Consider all the financial wealth among them that could be used to better the world for all humans on the planet. Money that could be used to confront climate change. But no. These guys want out!

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