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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: "Community" or Not = Semantics 
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:29:07 -0800

FTR:  Even if we don't think of ourselves
as a community, from the outside we are
mostly "those [weirdos/kooks/godless heathens]
who want to freeze themselves", and any
attempts to dissociate ourselves just look
silly.  Note that despite internecine squabbles,
Christians hang together for the sake of their
voting bloc (OK, that was unnecessarily snarky,
but it's late and I think you get the idea).

At least from the high-altitude view, we are
"the cryonics community", and it may behoove
us to act like it -- "safety in numbers",
"hang together or hang separately", "a house
divided against itself cannot stand", etc.
Our detractors will surely make use of "divide
and conquer" -- let's not do their work for
them.


Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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