X-Message-Number: 14072 From: "Gurvinder Bagga" <> Subject: Reanimation issues Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:42:55 +0530 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BFEB2D.27367800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everyone, George, I think you are unique amongst all cryonet members. Perhaps you are so rare that you are born one in a billion (not to mention people like Saul Kent and Mr. Ettinger and a few others. But my main aim of the lengthy post was to highlight two points; - The most successful (dynamic) institution in the world today is the corporate structure. I would trust a company (like CI with a board of directors who hold their meetings regularly) rather than a charitable or quasi government organisation to freeze me so that I can be revived. But can you imagine any board today having an 'Annual general meeting' through e-mails. Hardly! It won't work. I am sure human psychology plays a very important role and ideas discussed together (face to face) have a far higher chance of being implemented. Can you have a marraige without staying together with your wife?. How long will it last? What I mean by a "World conference" is to meet so that we can have some focus and impact. Like for example all the cryonic associations all over the world can make a bigger impression on the public if they do it from a single platform. IT GETS NOTICED. Our membership will spike upwards. Why do you think companies spend so much on advts. every year? Forget that! Why does the peacock have a tail that it can hardly carry around to attract the opposite sex? ITS AN AD TO SELL IT'S GENES! So a conference will be our biggest AD! Of course we will have to spend money. But who says that conquering death is going to be cheap. And it is we who have to do it. Or ask Mr. Clinton to fund our plans!! - The second and more important reason is that cryonics also means crisis management on a grand scale. If you believe that we can conquer death, we have to go all out and add to cryonics a lot of other issues which are equally important. Some of these are;1) Maximum safety of our lives 2) Right to be suspended and revived (if we have made the necessary arrangements) 3) A holistic approach to living that increases the chances of survival of our enviornment. 4) Cultural acceptance of cryonics (very important) 5) Commercialisation (of the cryonics movement)- This might sound impossible but do you know how much money is collected by the religious establishment all over the world? And what do the "faithful" get in return? ----- Actually we need to redefine the focus of the world. And when we have a world cryonics conference( and I bet you George, if we get more successful we'll have one without I having to do anything! ) we will be talking to people across the spectrum - people from nanotechnology, biotechnology, artficial intelligence, computing, quantum physics, evolution, anthropology ... the list goes on... AND - POLITICAL LEADERS! AND - HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPIONS! AND - ENVIORNMENTALISTS AND - COSMOLOGISTS (for asteriod impacts! and how to prevent them) even ARMY GENERALS (if they can help!).....PEOPLE WHO (accept very few) CURRENTLY DON'T PARTICIPATE ON CRYONET!! By the way what is the membership of cryonet 500? 1000? 2000? I see the same people almost every day - John Rivaz, John Grigg, George, Thomes, Doug, Robert Ettinger, Saul Kent, Mike, Jan , Kennita,Scott, Stephen....a few more and myself. Out of 6,000,000,000 people on Earth!!! There is nothing that we cannot improve. On a scale of 1 to 10 we are nowhere near 10 in anything we do. We can infact never reach 10! We cannot be 100% safe from accidents or earthquakes or asteriod impacts or the BIG BUST! (opp of BIG BANG). But we can definetly improve. And for that we need to add to our "cryonics only" minds a little more that we can do to increase the chances of our ultimate goal here at cryonet - IMMORTALITY. Bye! Gurvinder ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BFEB2D.27367800 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14072