X-Message-Number: 28095 From: Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:44:19 EDT Subject: I am BACK...An amazing journey...and one small question for Anthony In a message dated 6/23/2006 5:00:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: If I eat most of the pies and keep the rest of the pies I don't eat, and give pie-crumbs to my friends, but you have no pies, no crumbs, and feel hungry, do you think I am still not a drag? Anthony Hello, Fellow Cryoneters... After returning from a remarkable trip to the Canadian Yukon and Alaska, I am pleased to be back. My wife/business partner Dawn and I saved...literally coins in a large jar...for ten years for this trip. Worth every penny! But now are working very hard to get people the affordable and solid cryonics funding they "want and need." (After all, who among us would be so arrogant and ignorant to decide for others what they "want and need?" Our actual NEED is a spot of ground about 2 meters by one to bury us in. As human beings, our WANTS, fortunately, are much higher. We may WANT a car, a home, clothes that fit, good relationships...the list stretches to infinity. And this is good...it is a net positive that people want more than subsistence and poverty...most of us choose to want something we can define individually called prosperity!) So, I thought I would read, as part of my literally 489 emails, back issues of cryonet. That was probably a mistake. My next mistake is responding to Anthony with a question, which I will ask in a moment. However, I will start initially with a "personal ground rule" that I will NOT engage in extensive dialogue here, as I am putting about 15 hours a day working to provide goods and services to individuals who rationally want to have a chance to live. BTW, Anthony...please don't vilify me as a member of the super rich...after 28 years of ridiculous "dues paying" I am far from that. But I do have some reasonably wealthy clients. And every single one of them has created wealth by figuring out HOW they can be of service to more people, and meet the NEEDS and DESIRES of more people. But, with the degree of the "politics of envy" represented by the Anthony quote above and some previous Anthony verbiage, I am quite curious to have the answer to the following question: Anthony. May I ask what you do for a living? Regards, Rudi Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU Board Member Financial Planning Association fpafla.org Board Member Salvation Army salvationarmy.org Member Alcor Life Extension Foundation alcor.org Certified Financial Planner(TM) CFP Board of Standards Member Libertarian Party libertarianparty.org Member National Rifle Association nra.org Member World Transhumanist Association http://transhumanism.org/ World's Leading Cryonics Insurance Provider rudihoffman.com Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28095