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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:35:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: un person <>
Subject: The CryoGospel Cometh, and that Right Soon

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Here are some of my recent posts from The Cold Filter, copied and pasted here 
for your amusement and edification.




A TV preacher who regularly incorporated cryonics into prosperity gospel sermons
would....
August 4 2008 at 6:33 PM    unperson   (Login unperson)
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Response to Someone wrote a review of Mike Darwin's ExtroBritannia speech.

A single TV preacher who regularly incorporated cryonics into prosperity gospel 
sermons would bring many tens of thousands of new cryonicists into the fold.


yeah, mike is smart and his talks and writings have brought dozens of 
cryonicists into the fold. But the types of people who are able to be reached 
that way are dwarfed by the numbers who could be reached by incorporating 
cryonics into mainstream American religion.

You see there are probably only 10000 people or such in America who are 
psyschologically and intellectually primed to be reachable by Mike.

But there are many millions who could be reached by religion based appeals and 
appeals of a similar nature.

 
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    * cryonics + religion = bad - Edward-M on Aug 4, 2008, 7:09 PM
       
    * American religiosity - Mark Plus on Aug 4, 2008, 7:23 PM

          o You too can be immortal. GOD said it's OK - unperson on Aug 4, 2008,
          7:35 PM
          o On the other hand ... - Finance Department on Aug 4, 2008, 10:36 PM

                + Religious but really indifferent - Mark Plus on Aug 4, 2008, 
                11:06 PM

                      # Hope yer right - Finance Department on Aug 5, 2008, 1:57
                      AM
       

    * Why would cryo orgs want/need such people?! - Finance Department on Aug 5,
    2008, 2:33 AM
          o der money iz just as green - unperson on Aug 5, 2008, 6:09 AM

                + restated. my message is a clarion call, a call to arms to 
                young cryos & young wannabees - unperson on Aug 5, 2008, 6:27 AM
                       
You too can be immortal. GOD said it's OK
August 4 2008 at 7:35 PM    unperson   (Login unperson)
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Response to American religiosity

Jesus wants you to be immortal an resurrect the dead. God wants you to be rich 
and immortal.



der money iz just as green
August 5 2008 at 6:09 AM    unperson   (Login unperson)
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Response to Why would cryo orgs want/need such people?!

not only is their money just as green as ours, but their memberships would cause
even greater growth because they resemble most Americans a lot more than we do.

We cryonicists are NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE. We're weirdos.


Weirdos are by definition a small minority. In our case, a microscopic minority.
I suggest we tie religion to cryonics because there are verses in the Bible 
that support cryonics. THe entire prosperity gospel movement is supported by 
just a few verses. And it is a multi billion dollar "industry." We could go 
mainstream by encouraging some YOUNG cryonicists this alternate and quite 
possibly fruitful path to mainstreaming cryonics.


of course the actual cryonics organizations would have nothing to do with this. 
And cryonics organizations should of course sponsor rigorous cryonics research, 
which research would be much better funded because of the huge growth in 
membership.


THe Cryo-Gospel should be based on the idea of promoting SCIENCE to further 
God's goal of earthly resurrection and immortality, just as the Bible COMMANDS 
us to do.


I speak here to YOUNGER cryos and wannabes. I realize, and you younger folks 
should also realize, that older cryos have so much personal investment in the 
old paradigm of cryonics as a haven for the atheist uber-rationalist (yeah, I 
resemble that remark, and you do too), that these older cryos will fight such an
idea to the death.


I speak here to those who are still ideologically fluid enuf and not too heavily
invested in this, to please consider these avenue.


restated. my message is a clarion call, a call to arms to young cryos & young 
wannabees  - unperson on Aug 5, 2008, 6:27 AM
Response to der money iz just as green


Work OUTSIDE the cryonics organizations. Learn to be a preacher, learn the 
bible, learn public speaking, learn how to counsel worshippers, learn how to 
write sermons. Religion is the engine that drives much of grassroots America 
(even if most people do not go to church all that much). Still, there are tens 
of millions who do. Tens of millions. And less than 1000 cryonicists. Which is a
more likely fruitful field for harvesting: the 5000 or so internet users who 
are really alienated by reading lots and lots of books since they were kids, or 
the tens of millions of Americans who believe in the bible (and of course are 
afraid of death, too.)


Learn about how specific verses in the Bible support cryonics. Learn how the 
prosperity gospel preachers have created an entire branch of religion from just 
a few verses.


Preaching is a high status, lucrative field. You WILL have lots of sex as a 
preacher. You CAN use the skills you learn as a wannabee preacher in other 
fields.





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