X-Message-Number: 19048 From: Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 12:07:29 EDT Subject: Scientology --part1_1a4.22093f0.2a0fed41_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former Scientologist who received $8.7 million from the church this week 22 years after first suing it for mental abuse hailed the settlement on Saturday as a victory that could unleash a flurry of similar lawsuits. Hey, Keith was mentally tortured by Scientologists. Maybe he can get a few million. I like Keith's use of Minsky's "Society of Mind" explanation for why people don't sign up for Cryonics. I'm going to add it to my roster of mental agents. Of course, I suppose I should sign up first... and move to Scottsdale... and pay a staff of armed guards to keep my relatives away so that I would get frozen instead of autopsied and buried.... Hmmm. Perhaps the problem is that cryonic suspension is a lot of work, and people use mental agents to avoid work. That would look good on a tombstone: "he avoided work, even when it killed him." -Bill --part1_1a4.22093f0.2a0fed41_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19048