X-Message-Number: 15792 From: "Jeff Grimes" <> Subject: animosity Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:15:43 +0000 While I am not very interested in cryonics at this point I am still interested in the psychology of people who go in for it, and I am interested when someone responds to stuff that I wrote here. E.g.: "There has been a bit of verbal animosity towards CI lately, mainly driven by non-USA cryonicists. I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that today they don t have wide choice I had when I signed up." What a peculiar statement. The person who wrote it doesn't seem to have noticed any of the facts that were presented (on both sides). Personally I saw various disagreements about true and false statements and procedures which were either adequate or inadequate, and other fundamental issues which I would have thought would be important to anyone who is serious about cryonics. The personal stuff was no worse than you'd find in many online debates. To focus on that so- called "animosity" while totally ignoring the content seems bizarre to me. As for Thomas Donaldson, he seems to see himself as some kind of royal guru who has the right to sum up the situation for lesser mortals. And his distress about "arguments" is quite pathetic. If people don't ever disagree, how do you ever expect progress to be made? But this is the heart of the matter. I have come to the conclusion that most people on this list aren't very interested in making progress happen. They just want to enjoy the benefits of it, after it someone else has made it happen. Jeff Grimes. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15792