X-Message-Number: 1741
Date: 12 Feb 93 17:49:58 EST
From: Clarissa Wells <>
Subject: CRYONICS Newcomer's reactions

To: >INTERNET: 

I am new here, so there may be some things I don't know. But I have been 
reading previous postings, courtesy of Kevin Brown, and I must say it is quite 
a revelation. In the words of Monty Python, "I didn't expect the Spanish 
Inquisition." Or to be more specific, I didn't expect to read interrogations 
in the style of a Senate hearing. But that is exactly what Mr. Pizer's nagging 
questions remind me of. He uses the same fake politeness that Senators use, 
formal and gentlemanly, while underneath you can just tell he wants to STICK 
IT TO THE GUY really bad. I don't know the rights and wrongs of things that 
happened twenty years ago, and I don't much want to know, because I am 
interested in cryonics right now. But I have also read some of the text 
written by Michael Darwin, and there is a BIG semantic difference between him 
and Mr. Pizer. I think that whatever your opinion of Mr. Darwin's choice of 
words (and is that his real name, incidentally?) you have to see that the man 
is very, very sincere. This is more than you can say for Mr. Pizer, who I 
would not trust any more than a Southern gentleman trying to sell me swampland 
as a site for a new condo. So this is the impression that has been made on me, 
a relative newcomer. And this leads me to my point, which is that other people 
who have complained about name-calling and so forth seem to throw all the 
postings together, as if there is no difference between Darwin and Pizer. As I 
say, I don't know who's factually correct, but there is a hell of a big 
difference between the way these people express themselves. And if I don't 
have any other signposts to guide me, I'll go with the guy who seems to put 
his heart into things and tell it like it is, not the guy who sounds like he's 
questioning a nominee for Attorney General and trying to dig up dirt, 
meanwhile pretending he's just a plain and simple country boy. Hell with that! 

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