X-Message-Number: 24435 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:07:09 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Amsterdam >H meeting References: <> Forwarded message from Considering Cryonics list notice of a Transhumanist/Cryonics meeting in Amsterdam. This message is being sent to sevral lists so if content seems to not directly apply consider that portion as appropriate for another list. Be sure to see addendum for updated date change. ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:42:50 -0400 From: "Aschwin de Wolf" <> Subject: Dutch transhumanist / cryonics meeting (Amsterdam 31-07-2004) Dear All, After almost 4 months of trying to organize a transhumanist event, I have finally managed to put something together. Our first meeting will be on Saturday 31 of July, 7pm at my apartment in Amsterdam. Antoine van de Ven, from the Dutch Cryonics Organisation, and who is himself signed up for cryonics, is going to give an introductory lecture about cryonics and transhumanism. Audience participation is encouraged and there will be enough time for questions and discussion. Afterwards, we will go for a drink. [note see addendum below] Sat 31 July, 7pm at Gustavo's apartment: Barentszplein 18 Amsterdam (5 minutes from Central Station) This is an open meeting and everyone is welcome. Are you coming? Gustavo ---- Gustavo Lacerda Amsterdam: 06 2416 5268 Always email me at something at optimizelife.com, otherwise your message may never be seen. ________________________________________________________________________ Due to a conflict with an event in England, we have decided to postpone the meeting by exactly one week, to the 7th of August. Same place, same thing, one week later. We apologize for any inconvenience. Again, if you want to come, please contact me so I count you. Gustavo __________________________________________________________ Further note: I, James, am hoping some of my fellows from the Methuselah Foundation, possibly even Aubrey de Grey, will be able to attend this meeting but this I cannot guarantee. Furthermore, The Methuselah Foundation's Mouse Prize is in need of just a few more long term donors for what we call, "The Three Hundred". See website for full explanation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org. Even though a volunteer member of the organization I too am hoping one day to join this group that may well, we hope, be a historically remembered and revered group of individuals... for only the cost of a latte a day! However, there are only 4 slots left. This is the whole matter to which I refer. We need these four slots filled in order to break the one half million dollar breakthrough level and hopefully from that milestone gain some media publicity and momentum. But it's not very easy to get involved is it? I for one know for sure it is not, especially physically involved. But where bodies may not be capable of reaching dollars can very very well. Dollars are exactly what MMP needs to help attract scientists to the field of antiaging medicine. So far we've done pretty well and I can tell you we've only just begun. Wondrous things are afoot! This is an important >H endeavor. It's one thing to write each other daily and discuss what is or is not >H and what should be or not >H but it is another thing altogether to get involved and make our dreams come true. Our most precious of all these dreams, to me, is extended healthy human life span. Through funding prizes that help spur technological development, proven vehicles for advancement of technology as evidenced by such endeavors like the "Longitude Prize" and Harrison's sea going accurate clocks to Charles Lindburgh's transatlantic flight and the subsequent development of aviation to the contemporary Ansari XPrize for encouraging the development of commercial private enterprise space flight, technological prize inducements have paved the way for much of our modern successes. Please consider becoming a part of human and >H history by joining me and others in supporting the Methuselah Mouse Prize. Nothing will get the public's interest so piqued as would learning that it is really possible to increase our healthy human life span. The MMP is rapidly gaining recognition. We've already been featured in fortune magazine and can look forward to even more mainstream media publicity. Nothing gains attention so greatly as the term 'a Million'! We're almost there and with your help I know we can do it! James -- Membership in order of joining: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org Methuselah Foundation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org Methuselah Mouse Prize http://www.methuselahmouse.org [Give $$$ for life!] World Transhumanist Assoc. http://www.transhumanism.org/ MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24435