X-Message-Number: 6049 From: "Roderick A. Carder-Russell" <> Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Fear of the "unnatural" Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:10:59 -0400 Message-ID: <> I have found, as an Extropian, Transhumanist and just of late a member of Alcor, that despite the vast number of people involved in such studies, the majority of our society has a very strong "negative" reaction to our beliefs. I have lost a few very close people in my life because oof my work and my beliefs. After much discussion, they have all, independently, claimed to be "afraid" of my ideas. The unfortunate thing is that these are not pessimistic, uneducated people, they have all listened to me speak of the subject, digested what I've said, even made an effort to further there knowledge of the subject, but they all eventually break down and act afraid, with rather childlike fear. I could find people that share my views, but I have decided that it is much more enjoyable to open the world to people unfamiliar with what we do and believe, it is just so very dissapointing when I find out that they are indeed scared. I welcome any comments on the subject of spreading our views and educating those uninitiated. Also, I'm curious to know if any others suffer from my problem of losing loved ones and friends because of there beliefs in Extropianism/Transhumanism. ________________________________________________________________________ Roderick A. Carder-Russell transhumanist/philosopher/visionary specializing in man-machine symbiosis e-mail: WWW: http://www.shore.net/~rodc/home.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6049