X-Message-Number: 4028
From:  (Ken Wolfe)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Church of Cryonics
Date: 16 Mar 1995 00:51:22 GMT
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In <>  (Brad Templeton) writes:

>Alas, Ken, I think you missed the entire point of the article.  I am
>fully aware of the cryonicists viewpoint, particularly on the differences
>between death, legal death and suspension, between corpses and patients,
>between storge dewars and a burial ground.

>The article was metaphorical, *deliberately* using the words and perceptions
>of the mainstream to show how the mainstream would view it as matching the
>criteria for a religion.   You took the article as literal, unfortunately,
>explaining things everybody here already knows.

I'm pleased to hear that, I was expecting to get a flame in return.  You 
might have at least put a smiley or something at the end to make it 
clearer that this was not quite 'on the level'.

It's actually a good point that the mainstream could easily see Cryonics 
as a cult.  In fact, when my family first became aware that I was 
interested in signing up, their first reaction was to warn me that this 
could be a cult or a scam, out to swindle me and leave me nothing in 
return.  I have been sold on the idea of cryonics for a long time, but 
only after researching the cryonics organizations for quite some time was 
I convinced that they were really doing what they said they were doing in 
good faith.

Anyway, don't you at least need some form of mysticism to qualify as a 
religion?


Ken Wolfe

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