X-Message-Number: 26852
From: "Kitty Antonik Wakfer" <>
Subject: RE: Anonymity and the Wakfers
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:01:07 -0400

>
> Message #26844
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:16:14 -0600
> From: 
> Subject: Anonymity and the Wakfers
>
> Above in today's digest, Kitty Wakfer writes:
>
> >Since anonymity is inconsistent with the free flow of necessary evaluative
> >information, it is impossible for it to be " used correctly".
>
> Since Kitty and Paul have made it clear in the past that they share all of
> each other's opinions, I am wondering how Paul justified going under the
> pseudonym "Tom Matthews" up to 3 years ago.  Or is this above-quoted
> philosophy merely a more recent "enlightenment"?


Paul doesn't justify his previous use of the name "Tom Matthews" for 
life-extension

purposes and he publicly apologized in the past with the explanation of why he 
did
so. He repeated this explanation and apology again fairly recently in

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/morelife/message/1051 (near the beginning) 
and

with more detail in http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/morelife/message/1061 
(about

2/3 down the message). Using a "handle" or pseudonym is not being anonymous when
the

information openly given is correct *and* it can be linked to a unique person; 
it was

this lack of linkage for which Paul has and does apologize. All information 
provided

regarding "Tom Matthews" was accurate during the approximately 5 years that name
was

used and has been publicly linked (http://morelife.org/personal/ ) to Paul 
Wakfer for
over 3 years now since he left his consulting position as Moderator of the LEF

Forums. So, yes, this philosophy is a more recent enlightenment. Since when has 
it

ever been wrong to use evidence and logical thought to effect changes to one's 
views
and practices?

Paul's and my statements on the reasons why anonymity is harmful and therefore

undesirable are clearly and fully stated in the two essays on the subject at the

Self-Sovereign Individual Project; http://selfsip.org/focus  If anyone has 
criticism
of the assumptions or reasoning in those essays, then post a critique to any

appropriate public forum (after reading the essays of course, which is doubtful 
was

done by the writer of the message to which this is a reply). Doing so at 
MoreLife
Yahoo is welcomed if the posting requirements are met.


**Kitty Antonik Wakfer
MoreLife for the rational - http://morelife.org
Reality based tools for more life in quantity and quality
Self-Sovereign Individual Project - http://selfsip.org
Rational freedom by self-sovereignty & social contracting

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