X-Message-Number: 14526 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:24:31 -0400 From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: The Purpose of this List From the blurb sent to all new subscribers to CryoNet (presumably composed by Kevin Brown): ----------------------------------------------------- CryoNet Information for New Subscribers --------------------------------------- Cryopreservation (cryonic suspension) is an experimental procedure whereby people who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the future. The cryonics mailing list (CryoNet) is a forum for topics related to cryonics, which include technical reports of cryonic suspensions, low temperature biology, biochemistry of memory, legal status of cryonics and cryopreserved people, new research and publications, conferences, mass media coverage of cryonics, local cryonics group meetings, and even philosophy of identity. ---------------------------------------------------------- Since current CryoNet posters have chosen to disregard this stated purpose (the others having already long ago unsubscribed, or being silent sufferers), I would suggest to Kevin that he ought to rewrite it if he does not wish to appear guilty of dishonesty or exaggeration at the least. Either that or someone needs to act as moderator to see that the above stated purpose is upheld, and the censored posts can go to a new list called "cryonics.club.talk". Since I believe there is little likelihood of either change denoted above, since I have little time/desire for "talk", and since there has been no apparent benefit for my research fund-raising efforts from the many hours which I spent posting to CryoNet and then defending my viewpoints and my character from attacks of various kinds, I have today unsubscribed to CryoNet. My fiancee (soon to be wife) and life-partner, Kitty will remain subscribed and will inform me of anything interesting (related to cryonics per se) which appears on the list. I have often thought that I greatly suffer (psychologically in the short run) because of my inability to deceive myself about the realities of life, about the vast differences in worldview of others from that of mine, and about the objective prospects for living with vitality beyond 120 years of age. As my mother used to state after she became an agnostic, "I sometimes wish that I could have that simple faith in God which I had when I was a child". OTOH, I am pleased that I can see so clearly, and that I continue to make my utmost effort to effect my purposes, since then I will never feel deep regret (at the end of my life, if such should come), that I did not do the most that I could to avoid that result. I very sincerely wish you all the best in your empathetic kinship and communal dreaming. If the posts on CryoNet should ever become predominantly in tune with Kevin's description above, then I may decide to resubscribe. -- Paul -- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14526