X-Message-Number: 10245 Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:43:25 -0700 From: Peggy Moore <> Subject: How about taking that stuff elsewhere? References: <> First of all, thank you, Kennita (#10234), for your light interjection. It made my day. I have been watching cryonet for several months now and have seen threads go up and down about why cryonics is not catching on very fast and other threads about esoteric mathematical concepts that cannot be of interest to many and are most certainly not particularly relevant to main stream cryonics. Am I alone in seeing a possible connection here? Why is it that Ettinger and Donaldson and others use this forum, which is supposed to be about cryonics, to expound on esoteric mathematical topics that, at best, take up download time and disk space, and, at worst, turn off those of us who would like to participate in discussions about real world cryonics? Perhaps cryonics isn't "catching on" in some small way because many visitors to this forum are quickly turned off by the large percentage of the material here that has nothing to do with everyday cryonics. I don't think one needs to be conversant in mathematical formal systems nor the ins and outs of Goedel's theorem to participate in the cryonics community. How about taking that stuff elsewhere? It's not that it doesn't have merit, but it doesn't belong here and may be causing more harm than we know. BTW, I am a member of Alcor and have a degree in Mathematics, so am not disinterested. I'm just tired and bored with the irrelevant wrangling that I have to sift through here. Peggy J. Moore Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10245