X-Message-Number: 14089
From: "George Smith" <>
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Subject: Re: Scott Badger - You're right!
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:00:19 -0700

In Message #14085, Scott Badger made the point that it was not he who was
"ridiculing" the beliefs in an afterlife held by the vast majority.

You are precisely correct, Scott.  You were not doing so.  And I did not
mean to point a finger.

Again, the "skeptical" materialist perspective (which is more commonly led
by debunkers and not honest intellectuals), with its "raised eyebrows" and
"jokes", achieves the same result in the eyes of those who FEEL that their
beliefs are being ridiculed.

I HAVE seen many, many instances of sensitivity to not taking cryonics into
"competition" with afterlife beliefs.  I am simply suggesting that this is
the wisest approach to reaching more people.

My apologies to you, sir, if you felt I was placing blame where none was
deserved.

You are not, I feel certain, "the Amusing Randi".

George Smith

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