X-Message-Number: 14489 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:39:45 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Worldview, off-topic controversy David Stodolsky, #14485, says ... >Recent >scientific discoveries have generated new sources of meaning, which, >however, have not been integrated into a comprehensive worldview. An effort at doing this (which also is life and immortality affirming, and pays respects to near-term possibilities such as life extension and cryonics along with more long-range projects and issues) is my book *Forever for All*. Look it up at www.upublish.com/books/perry.htm. I also applaud George Smith's posting, #14487, which is well-put. I agree that the larger issues are important for cryonics, and not just the bare bones of how best to "freeze, wait, reanimate," to borrow Ev Cooper's old expression, though this is certainly important too. I can say that I am now employed full time (40 hrs/week, though not 168!) on cryonics-related things.This includes a fair amount of "wet-end" and research-oriented work along with some writing for *Cryonics* magazine and other writing projects. I've been signed up for cryonic suspension, with one organization or another, since 1977. I don't think all this would have happened, in my case, without some serious and sustained thinking about the larger picture, where it's all heading, what it's all about, whether the dead can be raised, what is the self, can it persist, should it persist, and other such topics. To my thinking an enduring, progressing cryonics effort is a must, even if the outlook otherwise is, on some grand scale, a hopeful one. For the same sort of reason I would avoid hitting a tree if skiing down a slope. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14489