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
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	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.
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                         Roderick A. Carder-Russell
                     transhumanist/philosopher/visionary 
                    specializing in man-machine symbiosis
      
       e-mail:    WWW: http://www.shore.net/~rodc/home.html

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