X-Message-Number: 7204 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #7176 - #7183 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:38:09 -0800 (PST) Hi again! Oh dear, I see arguments brewing on Cryonet again. First we have Steve Harris about Bob Ettinger's ideas (not really a first: Bob made some slighting comments about Steve in a prior posting). Now we see Charles Platt having at Bob Ettinger. I do believe it's possible to find positive things in the postings of all of these people. When they are not touched by their emotions, they can all say quite perceptive things. But there is still a sourness which leaves me uncomfortable. Here we are, trying to build our little lifeboat against Death, and we stop and argue about trivialities. I don't want to present myself here as an angel commenting on the faults of the human beings below him. I too can and have said things which I later regreted, and other things which I may not regret but should. It's just that I don't log onto Cryonet to see others doing the same thing. Perhaps Kevin should set up a separate net location where we can go to act out our anger, just as many Japanese companies set up a separate room for just that purpose. We might call it CryoSpleen. Maybe he can even set things up so that we can easily find ourselves in CryoSpleen before we get into Cryonet, and thus be able to be more constructive when we reach Cryonet. Maybe we can even get a small business going: dolls of each of the participants, which you can buy to stick pins in whenever the urge takes you. They'd be easy to make: just buy a rag doll and paste a picture of the face of whoever on its face. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7204