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From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: Article to be published in Free Inquiry
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:37:39 +1000

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> Message #29596
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> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:02:25 EDT
> Subject: Article to be published in Free Inquiry
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> This is Rudi from Port Orange, FL.
>
> I want to thank the people who responded to my earlier postings, both on
> cryonet and personally.  While I still think it both obvious and important 
> that
> one's belief in an afterlife and the nature of this afterlife, is THE 
> factor
> in why the meme of cryonics is not propagating more rapidly, I am moving 
> on
> to a different thread for now.
>
> I just received word from the editor of "Free Inquiry" magazine that they
> are going to publish my article entitled, "A Skeptic Looks at Cryonics!"
> Yippee!  I am very excited about this.
>
> I would like the article to be as compelling as possible, designed for the
> extremely intelligent and highly educated subset of humans who read "Free
> Inquiry."
>

I am delighted to discover another skeptic in the cryonics movement (or 
cryonicist in the skeptics movement, if you prefer) and I read your article 
avidly.

Metaphysics is a legitimate subject which can be studied in university 
courses (and I have done so). Of course I am sure the content of 
'metaphysics' in 2007 (or 1983 when I studied it) is very different from 
that of 1007. I wonder what I will be like in 3007. My guess is that many of 
our ideas (not just in metaphysics) will be regarded by our distant 
descendants in the much same vein in which we regard ideas like the sun as a 
chariot or thunder being the god Thor striking his hammer.

You mention that in cryonics 'semen, human eggs, human embryos, and other 
biological organisms or tissues are stored at very cold temperatures, 
typically in liquid nitrogen at -196 Centigrade.'
Being the pedant that I am, I feel obliged to mention that temperatures 
cannot be cold. It's 'very low temperatures' or 'very cold semen, human 
eggs, human embryos, and other biological organisms or tissues'.

I was under the impression that just one signed up person perished in 9/11.

I hope you will not be offended if I mention that I am puzzled by your 
membership of the Salvation Army, who are not (at least here in Australia) 
particularly noted for their liberalism. Also, I notice you no longer 
mention your participation in square dancing!

I also hope we will meet one day, either before or after cryopreservation. 

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