X-Message-Number: 13164 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: success of promotional activities Date: Mon, 31 Jan 100 11:30:40 +1100 (EST) Hi everyone! One major reason Alcor members havent engaged in lots of promotion is very simple. Many organizations exist solely to promote a set of ideas; political organizations, including Objectivists, and doing just that. The purpose of cryonics organizations is to get their members suspended when that becomes necessary. And doing THAT requires lots of energy which in other organizations goes to get people to join. As Ive said before, there is another problem, too: most attempts at promoting cryonics (either in general or for a specific organization) simply HAVE NOT WORKED. Perhaps some new method could work, perhaps not, but after continuing for 35 years now, the existence of some other method than personal contact does not look to seasoned cryonics as a likely possibility. And incidentally: will all those who raise such possibilities please tell us whether or not they have themselves signed up for suspension? Or is it instead something they intend to do in the future, when cryonics is bigger? Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13164