X-Message-Number: 23755 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:24:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Davis <> Subject: I support Kennita Kennita and Cryonetistas all, > Dan Hitt <> wrote: > Subject: i hope we can all learn from you > I'm really impressed by the way you've answered > those who disagree with you. I think you illustrate > Professor's Ettinger's remarks to the effect that we > promote our cause by being likeable. "A soft answer > turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up > anger." Amen to that! I also rise in support of Kennita's upbeat and fun-filled proposal. At a festival people are likely to be in a festive mood. You know, upbeat, jolly, warm, open, sociable, jocular, playful, etc. In such an atmosphere people are likely to be receptive. In such an atmosphere one can let down one's hair, so to speak, be light and breezy, enjoy the humorous aspects of the human condition, which are many, laugh at oneself even, and have others laugh at and with you, and no one take offense. In such an atmosphere cryonics might become associated with a smile, a chuckel, a jovial nature, hopefulness, human comity, social harmony, and all the usual suspects of the cult of the warm and fuzzy. Oh horrors! (For those who may be 'challenged', that last is sarcasm,... but with a smile ;-}) Which stands in stark contrast to the humorless, contentious, cranky, uncooperative, petulant, ego-driven, acrid atmosphere so often to be found here on the cryonet. So often, in fact, that a visitor to the cryonet might easily misconstrue the nature of cryonics and its advocates: humorless ***UNAPPEALING*** people who take themselves waaaay too seriously. (You know, failed and frustrated, charisma-challenged, would-be cult leaders whose plattitudes are ignored despite the self-evident(to them, duh!) truth that they are the know-it-all cryonics poobah just this side of godhead itself--whoops! there I go, being humorless my own self, sorry.) So, Kennita, I say, "Go for it!" And speaking of humor--or more precisely, the sort of upbeat life-affirming whimsicality from which humor springs--and its paucity here in Corpsicle Corners--I propose the formation of the Department of Cryonics Whimsicality, and invite all and sundry to participate in the untrammelled jollity, silliness even. To inaugurate this bold--and, dare I say for cryonet, innovative--initiative, allow me to offer up the concept of: ***THE CRYODATE*** The pain associated with losing a loved one is greater for 'us' than for a lay person, because, for a cryonicist the loss is unnecessary, is such a waste. Similar pain and waste is felt with the passing of a cultural icon. I really, really wanted to save Anthony Quinn. He WAS Zorba. Slightly more 'earthbound' is the loss of those creatures who made our pulse race and nostrils flare. You know who I'm talking about. Those incendiary provocateurs of libido, phantoms of our dreams, and for the lucky, of our real lives. It broke my heart when Ava Gardner passed on. When I recall her in "Night of the Iguana" I can hardly breathe. Lauren Bacall is getting long in the tooth these days, but not yet lost. Was she classy or what in "To have and have not"? So anyway, you select someone you 'admire' who, in his/her prime was tasty (or wanted to be) and you ask them out for a cryodate. (For the euphemistically challenged, I will note here that the term "date" actually means "torrid sexual romp", but the spirit of romance compels a language to match.) So you get together with someone for whom the spirit is willing but...and who was once irresistable (or wanted to be) and border-line insatiable, and you suggest that the two of you get together for dinner and a little mutual ravishment, say, the fifth (or second if she/he is REALLY hot) Friday after the later of the two of you is restored from suspension. Then you take out your little "Cryodatebook", and mark it down on your schedule. This is called making a cryodate. I've decided that, if possible, when restored from suspension, I would like the Tom Selleck model body. When making your cryodate you might want to discuss details of this, or whatever, sort. (A cryonics contract is useful here.*) Plan ahead. Or not. It's up to you. Have fun, kids. *How's that for sneaking up on it all subtle like? Best, Jeff Davis "You are what you think." Jeff Davis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23755