X-Message-Number: 19349 From: "Mark" <> Subject: Pledge of Allegiance Controversy Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:49:32 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C21DAF.2CC0A460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For those of you who often puzzle over why more people are not signing up for cryonic suspension, I believe the recent controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance is very telling. Heaven forbid (no pun intended) we should insist on what the Constitution guarantees us, Separation of church and state. This most recent ruling about the Pledge of Allegiance being unconstitutional has brought all of the card carrying Christians out of the woodwork. I have heard it repeated several times by now (the day after the ruling) that most Americans are Christians. There my friends is your answer as to why more people don't sign up for cryonic suspension, It's not because people are worried about whether or not cryonics will actually work. Let me use one of my favorite analogies to explain why I believe more people aren't signing up. When the Titanic set sail, no one seemed to care about the lifeboats. Why should they worry about the lifeboats, after all they were on a unsinkable ship, they didn't need lifeboats. Christians have no need for the lifeboat of Cryonics there ship won't sink either, they are merely going to be transformed from one form of existence to another. The second form supposedly being far superior to the first. Until modern day Christians are made to think seriously about what I like to call the "what if" scenario in which there is no God or Heaven, they will continue to have little concern about what Cryonics has to offer. The outlook for most Christians changing their positions on their own is not good. Lets face it, death is not a lot of fun to think about and most people simply choose not to. They don't want to think about the question, what if their is no God or Heaven. That is why I believe it is our responsibility as cryonicsts to make everyone think about the "what if" scenario. Cryonicists owe it to humanity to keep them from blithely drifting off into oblivion. In fact, we need as many people as we can get, because we all know there will be greater strength and ultimately success of cryonics if we have greater numbers. I am very tired of the diplomatic approach that so many have suggested when dealing with those who have not signed up for cryonic suspension. Those who have not signed up, especially Christians, need to be hit and hit hard with the "what if" question. In fact, they need to have it put to them so bluntly, that their blood runs cold and terror fills their hearts like the though of death does to the rest of us. Lets go everybody its time to load the ark! Mark Buddle ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C21DAF.2CC0A460 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19349