X-Message-Number: 30875
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: "Free Ted" page on YouTube
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:12:02 -0700

"an Arizona cult known as 'Alcorians'"

News to me.  I certainly hope no cryonicists
refer to themselves that way.

FTR, the only definition in my dictionary
that might fit is "a relatively small group
of people having religious beliefs or
practices regarded by others as strange or
sinister".  I don't think Alcor's religious,
but it could look that way from outside
given that the "practices" are done after
what most people regard as death.
Unfortunately, if one struck the word
"religious", the definition would fit --
1000 is a "relatively small" number compared
to 6 billion, and the video shows that at
least some people have "regarded" the
"practices" involved in cryonic suspension
as "strange or sinister".  Sigh.  Going
beyond the dictionary, there are lots of
attributes of a cult that people signed up
for cryonics don't share, but to dedicated
detractors those attributes don't matter.
Sigh again.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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