X-Message-Number: 11054 From: Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:29:26 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: #11037 Ken Barclay wrote in message #11037 (in part): "Reliance on authority is a refuge for those who have difficulty thinking for themselves. Mr. Smith placed himself in that category with his "Cryonics Syllogism" in #10979: 'Signing up for cryonics is a no-brainer. Most humans don't sign up for cryonics. Therefore most humans are no-brainers ...(and not therefore suitable for neuros).' "The obvious logical blunder in this "syllogism" was probably beyond him. Your, right, Ken. Humor doesn't always make sense. But questioning my intelligence and suggesting my disagreements with Objectivism stem from "insecurities" is not discussing these ideas, either. This was what the Soviet Union did with dissidents - assumed mental defects were responsible for their disagreements with Communism and send them to psychiatric hospitals to get "cured". Relax. I am writing my book, already! I won't try and write it here first. -George Smith "The first hundred years are the hardest." -Methuselah Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11054