X-Message-Number: 25148
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:39:16 -0500
From: "Jonathan Hinek" <>
Subject: Re: Mormons are not a sect, and we could use a Henry Eyring
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Dan Hitt wrote on 11/23/2004, 11:48 AM:

 > Hi Jonathan,
 >
 > Thanks for posting message 25131, about the inadvisability of
 > cryonicists being labelled as a sect:
 >
 > > I beg of you: please don't. The last thing I want is cryonicists to
 > > be lumped in with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. If you go that
 > > route, you might as well start handing out Kool-aid, Nikes, and
 > > black shrouds.
 >
 > While i agree that it may not be desirable to be in a sect, we could
 > do a lot worse than the industrious Mormons, who are an immense plus
 > to any area they are in (even if i think they may be on the wrong side
 > of the culture wars sometimes).

Point taken. What I meant was that I don't like the idea of us being 
seen as proselytizers or door-to-door salesmen for JEE-sus, or any other 
dogmatic figure or cause. The Mormons were an unfortunate choice of 
exemplar on my part.

--
Jonathan Hinek
Eschaton Outlook
http://tinyurl.com/6gmq2

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